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From: wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: NCAA home-court advantage
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 23:45:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 23:45:58 1984
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hou2b!sims, while bemoaning the fact that Kentucky was allowed to
play the Mideast regional finals in their own arena, seems to have
missed the entire point. Sure, Illinois fans could fill Rupp Arena
all by themselves. If you were the NCAA tournament committee, would
you rather schedule three games in some little crackerbox that seats
a mere 9,000-11,000, say, or a GIGANTIC basketball palace with a
capacity of over 24,000! Call it 15,000 seats at $15/game or so for
3 games, knock the figures down a bit (some arenas have a few more
seats than that), call it an easy half-mil extra just for playing
in a big arena. That's 1/3 of an under-the-table recruiting bonus
for each team in the tournament, no sweat, right? :-) Or if you
like, you could fund your fencing program with it.

Certainly money is at the heart of it. Anybody who thinks major
college sports isn't big business, and therefore should be run like
a business, has another think coming.

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
          ...Killjoy WAS here!          ucbvax!wildbill