Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
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