UA basketball's Sean Elliott, Feb. 18, 1989.

The UA’s β€œSurplus Property Office” sold 575 items, old athletic gear of every conceivable type, in an online auction Oct. 14. It produced more than $50,000 in revenue for shoes, socks, shoulder pads, jerseys, you name it. A set of old UA football shoulder pads received the highest price, at $650. A 1989, full-sized poster ofΒ Sean Elliott, went for $200. A box of white UA basketball β€œCATS” game pants went for $500. Too bad it couldn’t sell a piece of the goal posts, torn down in 1982, when Arizona shocked ASU 28-18 to knock the Sun Devils out of the Rose Bowl. At an SEC school, those things can go for $1,000 per foot.


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