Comments on: A Stumble On The Fairway Of Life

By: July 25 roundup

July 25 roundup — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:03:16 +0000

[...] Andrew Giuliani, son of the mayor, is suing Duke University for kicking him off its golf team [Newsday, Henican] More: complaint at Popehat; [...]

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:22:07 +0000

I can't decide whether this action is halfbaked or parboiled.

By: dbt1949

dbt1949 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:21:46 +0000

That's just par for the course.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:19:30 +0000

Subpar is used the same here – but thinking about it I think we've got it back-arsed.

But for this article in particular – we are discussing a golfer, so the disconnect between meanings is more pronounced.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:03:21 +0000

Maybe in Australia Bruce, but in America subpar means poor among everyone except, well golfers.

I wouldn't know. I shoot, guns not balls, for sporting recreation.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:32:50 +0000

You may want to rethink your wording. In a game where the lowest score wins being subpar is actually a good thing. Someone who is consistently below par can make a lot of money.

In fact that entire metaphor completely breaks down now that I look at it where being lower than par is actually an indicator of success.

By: Grandy

Grandy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:23:22 +0000

I don't think scholarships are binding across more than one year; each scholarship is actually re-knewed on a year by year basis (it's not often that someone goes on scholarship and finds themself off it, short of being kicked off a team, though it does happen). I could have sworn this was right, but I might be mistaken. I'll see if I can google it. Secondly, you touch on an interesting issue with the "promise of a former coach" thing. Obviously, such promises aren't binding. It isn't often, but I do occasionally see programs lose kids after a regime change, and while it isn't always the public reason sometimes one is lead to believe a kid was told he was no longer welcome. The studen athlete gets short shrift here, because if they want to transfer they're still subject to NCAA rules & regs. For recruits and current kids, they ought to allow free-transfer in the case of a coaching change. But that's a topic for another time.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:04:38 +0000

You can be sure that Andrew Giuliani isn't paying the fees for Bob Ekstrand, his attorney. And you can also be sure that Ekstrand (who's also suing Duke on behalf of a few of the (unarrested, uncharged) lacrosse players), didn't take this one on a contingent fee.

Perhaps Donna Hanover is paying the freight.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:55:18 +0000

I'm not so sure that Rudy approved the suit — he's allegedly estranged from his kids, including Andrew (I can't imagine why).

That said, the apple apparently doesn't fall far from the tree.