Judge rules Duke football is so down that dropping out of series OK

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Judge rules Duke football is so down that dropping out of series OK

Jun 21, 2008

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Franklin, KY — A Kentucky judge ruled in favor of Duke in a lawsuit Louisville brought after the Blue Devils backed out of a football series that still had three games scheduled.

Louisville had sued Duke for $450,000 or a new ACC opponent, according to the Louisville Journal-Courier, when Duke canceled the series after losing the first game 40-3 in 2002.

According to the newspaper, Franklin Circuit Court Phillip J. Shepherd on Thursday agreed with Duke’s lawyers that any opponent from Division I football team would be a suitable replacement, because the Blue Devils' record is so poor.

“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," the judge ruled. "Duke’s argument on this point cannot be reasonably disputed by Louisville."

Shepherd dismissed Louisville's lawsuit.

According to the contract, Duke and Louisville were scheduled to meet again in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Duke has a record of 6-45 over the past five seasons.

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how bout we tarheel fans stop laughing at duke and start laughing your way deacon boy? remember one thing, a W is a W there deacon boy, i mean deacon girl.

i think all the dudes at duke university should fly out to california and get married,maybe spend their honeymoon on some gay island while staying in some hotel called......uh,I dont know,perhaps the gay dolphin or the back door inn.

One other thing, they have now made Duke the underdog of college football......

before u Heels fans laugh to hard, remember, that u almost lost to Duke in football last year, u had to win that game in the last minute.

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