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Mr Jones' article is as confusing as the direction of the Penn State athletic department. While money and college athletic department business are the ostensible subjects of the article, the reader responses helped me understand what's going on over there. It is still all about Joe, and the way the school dealt with Joe in evaluating his negligence with Sandusky. Poor Hollis gets thrown in there by Jones and the Penn State AD in an attempt to change the subject from Joe. It appears that Penn State still has a long way to go to overcome the whole Sandusky outrage. . .

I love Hollis, but I'll never go to another Final Four (I've been to three). Watching a basketball in that atmosphere is absolutely depressing and lifeless.

Why would the writer need to add the points you've added? It would add absolutley nothing to the point of the acrticle, that PSU needs an AD like Hollis, someone who is innovative and makes his university a substantial profit.

Basketball in football stadiums has been going on for decades (re; Pistons in Silverdome) and NCAA has had regionals and FFs in football stadiums for a long while. All these had a configuration that put the court at ONE END of the stadium with temporary seating on one side.

What Mark did (with the Kentucky game a few years ago in Ford Field) was to CENTER the court on the field, enabling seating capacity to be the ENTIRE stadium plus field level seats for student sections. This paved the way for NCAA to do this at tourney's at venues like Ford Field and Lucas Oil.

Brandon was also played by Alabama in setting up their series.

I can understand that, but I like that there is more of a chance to get tickets now and the game itself is only part of the atmosphere of the Final Four that I enjoy.

I have had some great times the Friday night before the game with college friends, and all day Saturday leading up to the game.

The Detroit Final Four was, bar none, the best sporting event I've attended. Atmosphere was outstanding. B1G Champ game was close #2 but the win in the semi-final at the Final Four was electric.

No one is outraged, but the article is poorly written and got several basic facts wrong. The majority of this thread is discussing college basketball venues, not expressing "outrage" at the article.

I don't understand why people exaggerate things so much on the internet.

Specifically the Summers dunk. The temporary seating from the football stands to the court were shaking violently. Again, I think any Spartan fan in attendance was willing to give up sight lines to have been there on that day.

Nice exagerration on your part.

Besides wrongly crediting Hollis with the Pride comes before the fall line, what are the several basic facts that are wrong?

Inaccuracies in the blog/article:

1. Hollis understands sports. He has a passion for sports that goes well beyond money making. Anyone who follows him on Twitter knows this. Anyone who has talked to him in person knows this.
2. Hollis did not "steal" WJR broadcasts from UM.
3. Hollis did not have anything to do with Mike Hart or the "Pride" quote.
4. Nick Sabin was a coach at MSU for 5 years and had success right from the beginning. This is not a "momentary success and quick departure".
5. The state of Michigan is not named after the University of Michigan's mascot. (Michigan has been the "wolverine state" since the 1830's)
6. The current 4 game win streak against UM is not the first time, as the article implies by saying MSU fans "never thought they'd see such a day". MSU had a 4 game streak in the 1960's against UM.

I would have given anything to have been there. Went to the FF in Indy the next year, it was OK... just OK.