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NCAA lottery system flawed
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by Letters to the Editor
Thursday, March 15, 2007
As a loyal Badger fan who traveled down to Chicago this past weekend, I am very disappointed in the University's lottery system for NCAA tournament tickets.
This next weekend, the Badgers will once more head down to the United Center in hopes for glory and a trip to the Final Four or beyond. Unfortunately, the UW Athletic Department unintentionally (I hope) decided to hold a student ticket lottery during a time when the most loyal student fans were still making their journey back from the Big 10 Tournament.
It's like throwing salt on an open wound — driving the three hour trip back from Chicago with thousands of other Badger fans and realizing that we're being punished since the Athletic Department thought that 8 p.m. would be a good time to start handing out lottery tickets that rewards those who didn't trek down to Chicago to watch us destroy Michigan State and Illinois only to come up empty handed against Ohio State.
Now we have a chance to show the nation what Alando and the crew can do back at, what seems to be, home court advantage against Texas Corpus Christi and the like. It's just too bad that the Athletic Department didn't take time to consider what an 'in person' lottery system at that time would mean. I would hope that they might be able to make better, thoughtful decisions in the future.
Congratulations Badger fans who didn't travel to Chicago this weekend and have the opportunity to travel next weekend.
Shayna Hetzel
shaynahetzel@gmail.com
UW Senior
Anonymous (March 15, 2007 @ 4:23pm):
Don't you have more important things to do? Like comming up with a new initiative for students to spend millions of dollars on? Complain about UW student org alcohol policies?
Anonymous (March 15, 2007 @ 6:19pm):
Dedicated is not "traveling" to Chicago, it is road tripping to Penn St., Ohio St., Michigan, a bowl game. But you are right about the timing, but what do you expect from the ticket office.
Anonymous (March 15, 2007 @ 11:11pm):
Bring back the Field House. Those were days of the true Badger basketball fan. I remember having coke drizzle down my deck from the upper deck. I remember sitting on real benches, butt to butt, not in individual chairs. I remember the communal urinal troughs. I remember how hot the barn would get with everybody yelling at Knight when Indiana came to play. I remember waiting to high-five Tim Locum coming out of the tunnel at high time. I remember the excitement of perhaps maybe, just maybe, getting in invite from the NIT at the end of the season.
The Kohl Center has great accessibility, but no warmth or passion.
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