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Post by highball007 on Jun 22, 2008 9:03:16 GMT -6
Judge: Duke football indeed stinks For once, Duke was so bad on the football field that it won. The News & Observer reported that the school avoided paying the University of Louisville $450,000 for opting out of three football games. Duke lawyers essentially had argued that the Blue Devils were so bad any Division I team could have replaced them on the Cardinals' schedule. Louisville's breach of contract suit, filed in Franklin County (Ky.) Circuit Court, was dismissed by Judge Phillip J. Shepherd on Thursday. The contract had called for a penalty of $150,000 per game to be assessed if a date with a "team of similar stature" could not be scheduled in the event of a cancellation. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, the judge's summary included the following: "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 has gone 13-90 over the last nine seasons and beat only Northwestern en route to a 1-11 mark and winless ACC campaign last year. The teams, which played in 2002, were slated to face each other last season, this season and in 2009. Louisville played non conference games last season against Championship Subdivision Murray State, Middle Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina State and Syracuse. Full article: sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/rumors/post/Judge-Duke-football-stinks?urn=ncaaf,89496
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Post by spreadattack on Jun 22, 2008 10:58:41 GMT -6
Louisville's argument was garbage. The argument appears to be that Duke was irreplaceable, as if they had Notre Dame scheduled and you know it's going to be a sellout, so they deserved all kinds of money for Duke having pulled out.
I also wouldn't put much salt in what this judge says.
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Post by Coach JR on Jun 22, 2008 11:48:47 GMT -6
Louisville's argument was garbage. The argument appears to be that Duke was irreplaceable, as if they had Notre Dame scheduled and you know it's going to be a sellout, so they deserved all kinds of money for Duke having pulled out. I also wouldn't put much salt in what this judge says. Id put a lot of "salt" in what the judge said, because his ruling says Duke aint gotta pay. If Duke broke the contract and they couldn't find a D-1 replacement game, Duke should have to pay. Duke argument is easily countered by asserting "Judge, that's exactly why we scheduled them, for a sure win, and we can't find a replacement team that sux as bad as they do." If say only 35,000 fans would have come to the game, but dind't come because it wasn't played, then that's easily a $150,000 loss to Louiville. Not to mention concession revenues, and TV if any. I think, in the end, the judge was right...L'ville can find a replacement game with a team that sux nearly as bad. There's a lot of teams out there that are always willing to trade a butt whoopin' for a nice payday.
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Post by saintrad on Jun 22, 2008 11:55:56 GMT -6
wow, and to think everyone thought the lacrosse team had issues.
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Post by spreadattack on Jun 22, 2008 20:12:55 GMT -6
The judge reached the correct result, but I was more commenting on his actual wording.
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