Iowa being d!cks like they are.
Pregame: Illinois at Iowa, Saturday, February 4th, 1:30pm CT, FOX
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Fuel to the fire baby! F Iowa. If the boys can’t get fired up for this one and bring home a W, we may never. Makes a big game even bigger.
Damn, as someone who went on the first or second Iowa road trip with Krush, this sucks.
Iowa is definitely within their legal rights to not sell the tickets, or in this case, refund them to Illinois fans. Illini fans aren't a protected class. Sport teams do this all the time, and frankly, given it's a Saturday game, not a ton to do in the greater Iowa City area in the winter (if you're not a college student blacking out day drinking), a good, competitive team in a good, competitive Big Ten game, I doubt they'll struggle much to sell those tickets elsewhere.
It doesn't mean they don't come off as petty babies. Hopefully gives the team a bit of an extra juice.
It doesn't mean they don't come off as petty babies. Hopefully gives the team a bit of an extra juice.
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
I think we have found a brand new reason for @john1952 to despise Iowa!
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Welp, plenty of tickets on StubHub and apparently 200 more just opened up?? If you were on hand fence about going, let’s get some more orange in Iowa City. 
I think they can refuse entry to whoever they want. I read the money that the Krush lost was from canceling their bus charter outside the free cancelation window.
Still amove by Iowa. I knew they had little brother syndrome but I guess I didn't realize they were that insecure.
| NAME | TITLE | PHONE | EMAIL ADDRESS |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADMINISTRATION | |||
| Gary Barta | Henry B. and Patricia B. Tippie Director of Athletics Chair | 319-335-9435 | gary-barta@uiowa.edu |
| Chris Herschberger | General Manager, Ticket Sales & Service | 319-467-0760 | ChrisH@hawkeyesports.com |
| Fran McCaffery | Head Coach | 319-335-9444 | fran-mccaffery@hawkeyebasketball.com |
This is a prank.
200 members of the Orange Crush were notified today that the Athletic Department at Iowa just realized who they had sold a block of tickets to for Saturday’s mens basketball game. The Iowa AD canceled all the tickets immediately and refunded the $5400 to the Orange Krush. They did not offer to pick up the $6000 cost of the charter buses that won’t be refunded to the Krush. So now the Illinois students lose their funds and a chance to go to another Big 10 school and cheer for their team. Poor sportsmanship, Hawkeyes.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
What complete tools. I chuckle knowing that Iowa fans as old as I am are salivating about next season when they can take a trip down memory lane and celebrate the 45th anniversary of their most recent Big Ten regular season title, a three-way tie for first in... wait for it... 1979.
I was in seventh grade. Jimmy Carter was president. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The first functioning space shuttle was delivered to NASA. The Deer Hunter won Best Picture at the Oscars. The Sonics beat the Bullets for the NBA title. The Pirates won the World Series (the young among us will want to sit down and ponder that inconceivable nugget.) The Iran hostage crisis began.
That's the last time Iowa basketball fans had something worth celebrating.
Savor those tears, my brothers and sisters.
Krush them.
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Wow, where did the charter bus money originate?
Not the Krush's fault Iowa fans don't give two hoots about Frannie's hawks and the Krush can buy a block of tickets. Here's hoping for an Illinois victory in the range of 108-51. And Fran has an epic 3-tech, Bobby Knight/Ted Valentine-like meltdown and has the entire college hoops world laughing at Iowa.
In my opinion the worst part is waiting until today to cancel the tickets ensuring that the 200 students and Orange Crush lose the most money possible and have the maximum disappointment. There are still three days to make sure world knows how pathetic that was for an University administration to do to a bunch of students.
Really sucks for kids that are juniors and seniors and already missed the opportunity once two years ago due to Covid. If they can’t get the refund on the charter they should just go anyways and raise hell at Iowa bars (within reason of course) if the Illini win.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but really?
“All the time” is a bit extreme, but you hear stories about it pretty regularly. So it’s certainly not “uncommon”.
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
Yeah, after reading that I can't really side with Krush on this. I can still loathe Iowa, however.
So why did you follow up THIS WEEK? Because word leaked out and you were afraid to have loud fans of the opposing team in your building. It is a convenient excuse. Now you just look like tacky politicians.
IlliniSaluki
- IL metro east burbs of St. Louis
Sorry, the Krush are still a non-profit that would qualify for the same discount IF Iowa wouldn't be cowards. You know damn well they would of outright denied the tickets had it had their name on it.
I see a lawsuit here as they cannot block a legal sale of tickets. I would complain to the conference heads but it would go nowhere as they hate Illinois.
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