Halftime contest idea

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HoopDreams
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Proposed halftime event that would be fun for fans, participants, bring fans to games, good for the sponsor and therefore raise more funds for the athletic dept

The Cal Basketball Halftime Knockout Championship

It would work like this:

8 teams in brackets:

6 teams with two players from a frat and two players from a sorority.
1 team made up from 2 band members and 2 Rally Committee members.
1 team made from 2 Cal clubs (e.g. robotics club and entrepreneur club)

It takes 7 games to crown the championship, which would be held on the last home game

The champion team wins a prize and trophy (for a year of bragging rights), which they keep until the next season of this annual event

Anyone who has played or watched knockout understands this is a fun, short game that can be played with any skill-level players. It's a common game at schools and parks, and often played when one or more players have zero or low basketball experience. Here is a video of how it is played


BeachedBear
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Well, this is a brilliant idea (which has been done before - on a simpler scale - without the league carryover).

The season could even be made into 2 seasons (there seem to be enough home games).

However, the major roadblock (which can be overcome), is how the powers that be seem to secure sponsors. They seem to find a sponsor and let them come up with an idea (usually lame). Instead of coming up with an idea (like HD has) and finding a sponsor to support it.

Best chance for success is to look through the Learfield stable and see if any of them fit. Because it isn't gonna happen if Learfield doesn't do it.

Other brilliant ideas were CYO half time scrimmages (do they still do that as much?), the Toyota long putt for a car (which someone actually won, so they stopped doing it) and 3 shots for a semester tuition (free throw, 3 pointer and half court) - students only.

An idea was floated many years ago about a soap-bubble wrestling match for homeless people. But that never took off....
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Jim Knowlton Dunk Tank
ncbears
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Why not two greek, two co-op, two from units1-3/clark kerr?
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Pie the AD
HoopDreams
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ncbears said:

Why not two greek, two co-op, two from units1-3/clark kerr?


Any combo of teams is good

The reason for the 6 Greek teams is they might have the built in rivalries and bring their whole houses to the games

Start a new Cal tradition
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