[NU Sports] Duke pride

[Joe Thiegs]

IMHO, this ruling represents a colossal failure of Louisville's attorneys to
articulate (or maybe recognize) the actual value of a series with Duke.  If
anything, they should have asked for more or countered the Duke argument,
pointing out that the fact that the Blue Devils are so bad is part of what
makes the opportunity to play them so special.  Where else is Louisville
supposed to find another opponent that (a) is a team from a BCS conference
and (b) can almost guarantee a win for the Cardinals?  Waco, TX, maybe.
Possibly Nashville, TN, or maybe even Syracuse, NY, these days, but both of
those teams have been a bit of a gamble in recent seasons, and the Orange
are in-conference anyway.  Not even Indiana is a safe bet anymore.  Only
Duke and Baylor have been consistently spongy enough over the years to be
considered reliable future-schedule cupcakes that also bring with them the
"respectability" of having played a BCS conference team. "Similar stature"
becomes a much tougher standard if you succeed in defining the parameters
correctly.

U of L had home-court advantage too!  For shame.

-Joe


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:11 PM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Duke pride

Duke plays the pity card
Do you ever wonder how much your pride is  worth? At Duke, the answer is 
$450,000. That's how much Louisville was asking in  a lawsuit for breach of 
contract because Duke backed out of a four-game football  agreement after
playing 
just one game. Louisville was asking $150,000 per game  if a replacement
game 
with "a team of similar stature" could not be  found.

Big mistake, Louisville. The Blue Devils introduced what shall now  be known

as the DSD -- "Dukies Suck" Defense.

Duke's lawyers pointed out  that Duke (6-45 over last five seasons) is so
bad 
that any team is of "similar  stature." And Franklin, Ky., Circuit Court 
Judge Phillip J. Shepherd bought  it.

"At oral argument, Duke [with a candor attributable to good legal  strategy]

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 Shepherd knows his football.





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