Maguire University
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Maguire University is a fictitious college invented in 1963 by a group of Chicago high school basketball coaches for the sole purpose of securing tickets to the NCAA Final Four.
The NCAA fell for the scam, and so did at least one real school: the United States Air Force Academy, who contacted the Maguire "coaches" asking to play their nonexistent team. Kelly's Pub, on Webster Street in Chicago, serves as the college's "campus."
Maguire (nicknamed "the Jollymen") received Final Four tickets for two years, until Bill Jauss wrote about the scam in The Chicago Tribune. The NCAA was not amused. The coaches then had to acquire their own tickets, and at least one of them has attended every Final Four (or, as they call it, Final Five) ever since.
Maguire's motto, "We Play Hurt," is a reference to the hangovers accrued by Maguire's "students." [1]
Chancellor: Arthur Duffy Treasurer: James E Dillon, Jr. Chancellor Emeritus: John Kelly
