June 20, 2008

Case closed: Duke Sucks

It's one thing to have a bad football team - and no one at Duke is going to shy away from that designation - but its something else all together to have a judge make a legally binding decision that your team sucks.

The Blue Devils backed out of a four-game series against the Cardinals with three dates remaining. The contract called for a penalty of $150,000 a game if a date with a "team of similar stature" could not be arranged.

Duke argued that its team, which is 6-45 the past five seasons, was so bad that any team would be a suitable replacement.

The judge sided with Duke.

"At oral argument, Duke (with a candor perhaps more attributable to good legal strategy than to institutional modesty) persuasively asserted that this is a threshold that could not be any lower. Duke's argument on this point cannot be reasonably disputed by Louisville," Judge Phillip J. Shepherd said in his summary.

HT: TE, who laughs in the Dukies general direction

Posted by Kevin Donahue

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Case closed: Duke Sucks
It's one thing to have a bad football team - and no one at Duke is going to shy away from that designation - but its something else all together to have a judge make a legally binding decision that your team sucks.
The Blue Devils backed out of a four-game series against the Cardinals with three dates remaining. The contract called for a penalty of $150,000 a game if a date with a "team of similar stature" could not be arranged.

Duke argued that its team, which is 6-45 the past five seasons, was so bad that any team would be a suitable replacement.

The judge sided with Duke.

"At oral argument, Duke (with a candor perhaps more attributable to good legal strategy than to institutional modesty) persuasively asserted that this is a threshold that could not be any lower. Duke's argument on this point cannot be reasonably disputed by Louisville," Judge Phillip J. Shepherd said in his summary.
HT: TE, who laughs in the Dukies general direction