[don'tbedenied]

"And I bet that at some point those young near-men and slightly more worn ladies of the drunken nights take on a swashbucking legal team (to use a metaphor from the last scenes of AH) and take a run those ivy ramparts, major endowments and deep pockets a major U like Duke has."

One can only hope you weren't an English major. Who does your sentence construction, Yoda?

Seriously we've got the point, players were bad, Divine retribution occurred. Please give it a rest.

[bvw]

I would not call it divine retribution. Break the laws of common sense and a person gets a common comeupance.

And my sentences work, because I write them to get into people's minds. I do so for love of a real converstaion, and not just idle chatter. Patent english grammar is deadsome in a way -- strong writers break rules. Call it super-charging. The reaction drawn so far is one measure.