It's not every day that the Duke football program gets to celebrate a victory. It's happened only eight times during the past five years. So I suppose you can't fault the Blue Devils for getting excited over this one. But if it was me, I'd be so embarassed that I'd think seriously about packing up my helmets and pads and disbanding the program.
For what it was worth, this latest "win" came in a Kentucky circuit court rather than on the field of play and it was earned when a judge sided with Duke in its breach of contract lawsuit against Louisville. The Cardinals sought to recover nearly a half million dollars in damages after the Blue Devils decided to cancel the final three games of their four-game series against their Big East Conference rivals.
The argument was that Louisville wouldn't be able to find a replacement "team of similar stature" to fill the scheduling void created by Duke. The Blue Devils countered that because their team is so bad, they can be replaced by anyone. And Judge Phillip J. Shepherd of Franklin, Ky., bought it, ruling that "Duke persuasively asserted that this is a threshold that could not be any lower."
I guess there's something to be said for that. Not everyone can be the best and somebody has to be the worst. So why not accept your lot in life and revel in it, as the Blue Devils' football program seems to have done? Besides, this is the best thing that could possibly have happened to new coach David Cutcliffe.
At this point, the bar has been set so low that any success he achieves will put him in for the ACC's Coach of the Year award and maybe even a front row seat at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the only sport at Duke that matters -- basketball.
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