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Friday, April 4, 1997
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TALKING BACK
The following are comments received by the sports desk via e-mail. Questions and comments can be sent to sports@ansan.com and selected comments will be printed.
In response to Adam Herschman's column that basketball players should be allowed to leave college early;
I strongly disagree with your opinion on college education.
Getting a job is not the only reason to go to college. You won't need a college degree if you want to work at Burger King. Employers hire college grads not because the college grads have a degree; rather it is because the employers believe that the college grads have learned something from their college.
If your only objective of
going to college is hoping to get a job after graduation, Kansas is not the right place for you.
Way too many students at Kansas, or any other college, have the same kind of attitude as you do, and the result is slacking behaviors such as not going to class and not studying. And when these people get bad grades that might cost their graduation, they blame other people.
Why should they study? They paid the tuition, and they should get their degree, right? Wrong!
If this trend continues, an undergraduate degree soon will be degraded to the equivalent of a high school diploma, and employers will start looking for master students to fill the important positions. This trend could only be altered if people like you change their
attitude toward college education.
Back to Paul and Raef.
The decision of their future will be their own, no matter what the other people say. I think they already are more intelligent than many college grads. They already have the skills that employers are looking for.
But if they stay in school, they could learn something that no one will be able to take away from them — knowledge.
Knowledge that can make them better people and better players. If you look at all the great basketball players in history, it is not hard to see that they are all very intelligent. And knowledge is what separates the great players from good players.
I am not saying that Paul and Raef are not intelligent enough to be great players. But it will be to their benefit to stay in school. Staying in school is not just for the jobs. It's fun to stay in school.
The job market gives you an income, but it also gives you
I totally agree with your column. If anyone was offered a job in his or her chosen major making millions of dollars, they would leave at the first chance they got.
pain. I hope you can enjoy all the time you have in school.
Our goal in college is to get educated in a certain field to find employment. Paul and I are friends, and I think that if he wants to leave, let that man leave, and everyone should stay out of his business.
I'll still be a Jayhawk fan,
even if Paul and Rae are not
playing. There was Jayhawk
basketball before them, and it
will be here after them. So to
all those underclassmen, both
college and high school, if you
are good enough to be drafted,
then GO FOR IT!!
On Kansas basketball:
As an Arizona alum, I have been a big fan of Kansas basketball. I thought Kansas was going all the way.
But after I heard that Vaughn and some other KU players were talking trash to our team, I didn't weep for Kansas at all.
Tournament balance outweighs ticket sales
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When it sets the field for the men's basketball tournament, does the NCAA want to sell tickets or balance the bracket?
So far, the selection committee has favored a balanced bracket over guaranteed sellouts.
But a policy that doesn't attempt to put teams at sites where they'll draw fans cost the college organization almost $600,000 in ticket sales this year.
Only three of eight venues drew capacity crowds for the tournament's opening weekend.
"For ticket sales, the committee has taken a big risk in not sending teams to play in their backyard," said Bill Hancock, director of the Division I men's basketball championship.
for first-
and second-
round
games
were sold
out. This
year, three
Last year, seven of eight sites
venues were particularly disappointing: Kansas City, Mo., Memphis, Tenn., and Charlotte, N.C.
Altogether, about 22,500 tickets went unsold. Hancock said.
"We don't think it's particularly worrisome," Hancock said. "I think it's due to the selection committee moving teams around the country to achieve a balanced bracket, rather than a lack of interest in the tournament.
"Attendance at Pittsburgh,
Auburn Hills, Mich., and
Winston-Salem, N.C., was incredible."
Neither Memphis nor Kansas City had a team with any local
interest. Kansas would have been a ticket scalper's dream had it been assigned to Kansas City. But the No. 1-ranked Jayhawks were sent to Memphis because Kansas was the host in Kansas and a team cannot play at a site it serves as host.
"They decided balance in the bracket for all teams was the most important factor. If it costs a few ticket sales in a few cities, so be it. That's the price to achieve balance and fairness," Hancock said.
More than 20,000 unsold tickets for early-round games were not the only negative NCAA executives were left to ponder.
The overnight Nielsen ratings for Monday night's championship game were a disappointing 18.9 — third-lowest on CBS in 23 showings.
The rating was up slightly, however, from last year's championship game.
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