[15thRegionSlamaBamma]

It has been like this for years Creeker, when Mashburn and such played you would have been paying a bing chunk of change to watch them play. Now granted the tickets were not as high priced as they are now and that is because of inflation and all tickets have drastically increase. I remember going to watch Kentucky vs TN back in the 90s and two UPPER NOSE BLEEDS seats ran my father 80 bucks for 2 and that was in the 90s we were 2 rows from the top and the only reason he payed that much was because it was my first UK basketball game. With that said what you are not seeing as far as the cops go is the arena is owned by the city and the scalpers are hired by the arena/city. These so called scalpers are city employees for the night, they make so much off of how many tickets they sell and are paid some type of hourly rate. Some are also co-owned by companies which are contracted out by the city and Rupp Arena. Many of these people as I said are making an hourly wage so they are not eating the tickets they have. Now the cheaper tickets that you are getting by those who have upper arena tickets are normaly people who work in private and they make a huge profit off of what they sell. The Louisvile game if these scalpers lost money for the Hartford game will quadruple what they put into the two game (Louisville and Hartford) and break way more than just even. You get hurt by a few games but make a killing of one thats the way scalping works.