[DrewDevil]

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How much of Duke's decision to cancel the season was based on pressure from the NCAA?

I'd bet that the NCAA went to Duke with two options - cancel your season or we will. Good for them for correcting this mistake. These kids were punished enough from that girl's lies, it's good to see them get something back.

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That's just pure speculation, and if I'm one of the Duke kids, I hope to hell Duke lets the NCAA cancel it while they stand behind me.

Duke threw those kids under the bus, plain and simple. Those kids were vilified by a good percentage of the Duke faculty. When it slowly became evident that the DA was a retard, the prosecutor was tampering, and that the whore was FOS, those who vilified the kids tried to justify their slander by taking the "booze and sex is bad, mmmkay" stance. The whole thing was embarrassing.

Maybe this approach is fairest for the players, especially those not charged with anything. It still seems like Duke is getting off easy here.

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Agreed. I am an alum and the smarmy self-righteous e-mails I kept getting from the Duke president were sickening. DA Nifong gets the majority of the blame but the Duke community really over-reacted. Everyone wanted to be on the politically correct side of things and no one dared raise any questions.

The families of the 3 kids are probably going to sue Duke before all is said and done.