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Message: [QUOTE="llandz, post: 1177352, member: 1679"] Actually that was the one that made the most sense to me. My nephew played division one hockey in college. I know when I went to a game that there is a very strict policy with the tickets that the players get for their family or friends, and all tickets have to be picked up at the box office right before the game, with your id, and it must match the id that the player has provided. The player never lays hands on the tickets. He can not hand me the ticket. Once again this is the process that is laid out by the NCAA. Tickets today have a high monetary value. They do not want a player trading their tickets for some sort of benefit or money. So if I have a ticket from our alumni group, and once again because of this I represent Syracuse University directly in the same way that an employee does, then where my ticket goes becomes equally as important. Let's say that a recruit is coming up with his family for an unofficial visit. He does not have enough tickets for everyone to attend the game. I take one of my tickets and sell it on Craig's List. He just happens to be the person who buys the ticket. I have now, as a representative of the university that he may attend, provided him something with a high monetary value or given him a benefit in that maybe the game was sold out. And how does the NCAA prove that there was nothing nefarious in that transaction or how do I prove that it is totally innocent? Now for another stupid NCAA rule I learned while my nephew played hockey. He came to my house, and my son offered him a red bull to drink. Red bull is on the NCAA banned list as it is a stimulant. How does this differ from drinking 3 glasses of Mountain Dew? And yes I know Red Bull is not a healthy thing to drink in general, but that was not the intent. Otherwise they would tell you to have 4 servings of vegetables a day, 3 of fruits yadda yadda yadda. [/QUOTE]

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