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OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:23 amby PonyTime
WOW - 17.5 Million divided by 32 apartments = $546,875 per apartment. Must be nice…
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/08/4737360/ku-planning-175-million-apartment.htmlI am surprised that this is legal per NCAA. Guess that they will have some actual students living in there too in order to meet NCAA regs, but this is insane...
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:04 pmby SMU 86
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:11 pmby Mustangs_Maroons
I thought this part was a bit comical. Just call it as it is.
"To comply with NCAA rules, KU athletics states in its internal student-athlete housing policy that “student-athletes may not receive any special services or material amenities that are not provided to all students on an equitable basis.†So the new apartment building would be open to 34 non-athletes."
100% of the basketball students and a less than 1% to the non-athletes is hardly equitable.
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:13 pmby blackoutpony
We should've done this with one of the new residence halls
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:15 pmby SMU 86
14 hoops players and 34 non athletes. Sounds okay to me. Good for their recruiting.
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:21 pmby Rebel10
blackoutpony wrote:We should've done this with one of the new residence halls
Good idea.
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:07 pmby leopold
I remember Kentucky had something similar in the 'Wildcat Lodge,' given specifically to their basketball players and perhaps a few select football recruits. It's a super nice apartment complex with the dorms being fully furnished 2BR apartments.
The way it worked there is there was a student lottery for either a couple of students, or perhaps only one, to live in the 'dorm' with the athletes, thereby officially making it a dorm. But it all exists around loopholes.
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:10 amby CoxMustangFan
It's apart of the arms race in college athletics. KU Towers suck and this was long overdue. I actually think they should have spent more.
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Wed Jan 15, 2014 3:18 pmby ojaipony
Put it next to sorority row and you got a winning recruiting formula.
Re: OT - KU BBall "Dorm" - this is getting out of hand
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Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:58 amby LHS81
At least the "hostesses" and recruits won't have to go far to go far
