KU fans are reasonably disturbed that the Mizzou fans were snagging Arrowhead tickets off of the KU website. With Jim Marchiony indicating that KU had already sold 90 to 95% of their allotment, that means the number of tickets up for sale on the website was pretty small. Of course, you have to do some math and even then it's still questionable. Why couldn't Jim just say we had 2,000 tickets that we sold on the website. Anyway, let's try to figure this out:
Jim's 90-95% could not have included the 3,000 he held back for the students or their wouldn't have been tickets to sell. So, let's assume that is from the 27,000, which means somewhere between 1,350 and 2,700 tickets were made availabe. Based on previous percentage estimates from prominent KU AD members let's go with the higher 2,700. Even with the higher number, was it really necessary to get those out to the public before Mizzou put those tickets on sale? I mean it's August. The game is after Thanksgiving. I think we could have handled a few more e-mail campaigns in September to the season ticket holders.
You could also argue that those tickets should go to the students. Three thousand seems a little low for the current allotment. Of course, the students can thank the rumors of certain campus housing systems selling large amounts of Arrowhead One tickets online at a high price. Probably easily thwarted by allowing only two tickets per student ID instead of unlimited. Just an idea.
So, what have we learned? Overall, I'm not excited about a single Mizzou fan in the KU section but I wouldn't sweat it too much as the maximum should be 2,700 at the top of the section (not counting KU season ticket holders that spent the extra cash on Border War tickets with the sole intention of selling for profit*).
*If you do this or have done this in the past, you are an enemy of the University and in general a blight on all of humanity. You are completely dead to me and might as well get a Tiger tattoo on your forehead. Guard that secret with your life and sleep with one eye open.