Be Careful Who You Help?

Big basketball game on Wednesday last week. Kansas State played at Kansas. Kansas State was ranked number five and Kansas was ranked number two.

Place was pretty nuts. Students camped out for a week to get tickets (Classes? We don’t need no stinking classes (yes, I know that there is a group system that means that only one person has to be in a line at a time)). The local ticket outlet was totally sold out. The highest price I heard of for a ticket was $1,200.

Kansas won. Great game.

Turns out that last December on a flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City, one of the assistant coaches for Kansas (Kurtis Townsend) had met a woman who graduated from KU a few years ago. She talked about wanting to take her brother to a game on his birthday and Coach Townsend arranged for a couple of tickets to be left for her.

Pretty common for coaches to leave tickets for alumni and fans.

After the game, the woman sent out a Twitter to her “small” group of followers (only about 2,000) talking about a what a great game it was and thanking Coach Townsend for the tickets.

Problem: The woman is a porn star.

And word started to get around about the whole thing.

So then Coach Townsend had to talk with the press and the University about the whole thing. And he had to explain to his wife about how he knew an adult film actress.

The coach says that he didn’t know what she did for a living and there is no reason to doubt him.

The University doesn’t think that Coach Townsend did anything wrong. Head Coach Bill Self doesn’t think that Coach Townsend did anything wrong. And not that it matters, but I don’t think he did anything wrong either.

I think he was just trying to do something nice for a fan of the team.

And it came around to bite him. Happens.

Sometimes we’ll try to help someone and it won’t work out the way we expect. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t quit helping them. Just means that it didn’t work out the way we expected it to work out…