Description
Book Synopsis In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers. Investigators found that for more than five years Jones and a small ring of university officials had conspired to loot the university of $2 million in tickets, reselling them for $3-5 million. In what was perhaps the biggest scandal in college sports history, all seven members of the Kansas Ticket Gang pleaded guilty to RICO Act indictments. Five went to prison--two were given probation for turning state''s evidence.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface 1
- Introduction: The Kansas Ticket Gang
- 1. Rodney Gets a Job
- 2. Lawrence, the University of Kansas and Basketball
- 3. Basketball
- 4. Changing Athletics Directors, Coaches and Conferences
- 5. Tickets: A Brief Biography
- 6. Charlette Coble and the University of Oklahoma
- 7. Rodney "Tickets" Jones: Ticket Whisperer of Mass Street
- 8. Junction City
- 9. Money and the AD Shuffle
- 10. Charlette: When Home Becomes Work and Work Becomes Home
- 11. Perkins
- 12. Charlette Comes to Town
- 13. It Worked!
- 14.Complimentary Tickets and Ticket Ownership
- 15. The Ticket Gang Scales Up
- 16. The Greatest Year in the History of KU Athletics
- 17. Big Trouble Visits Big D
- 18. Coming Apart
- 19. Everybody Knows
- 20. Cooperation
- 21. Adieu, Lew, Adieu
- 22. Indictment: A True Bill
- 23. Here Comes the Judge for the Family Blubaugh
- 24. Here Comes the Judge for Rodney "Tickets" Jones
- 25. Judgment for Kassie Liebsch and Ben Kirtland III
- 26. Reciprocity at Home: Tickets for Tickets
- 27. The Oklahoma Connection and Poor Accounting
- 28. Summing Up: The Box Score and the Original Rules
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Code of Ethical Conduct, Kansas Athletics, Inc.
- Appendix B: Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
