One of my Brother's best friends is the older Brother of one of the Duke players. What is not being revealed about this email, is that the phrase they are quoting is a line taken from the movie, American Psycho.
When I was in high school, I got called in to my counselor's office mid-day during a school day. Both my parents were already sitting down; the expression on my Dad's face made me realize I had really stepped in it this time (although what it was I did, I hadn't a clue). My counselor asked me why I was giving death threats to my math teacher. I nearly burst out laughing, until she showed me a math exam I had taken earlier in the week. I hadn't studied at all for this test, and so decided to have some fun with the answers:
("1. Answer: Good question! 2. Answer: Double-double with fries and a shake. 3. Answer: Confidential; I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
It was obviously the third answer that got me in hot water. Apparently nobody had seen the movie Top Gun, and so I was left trying to explain how it was really just a joke.
Needless to say, they didn't get it. My friends all thought it was hilarious though. They all thought I'd should start drawing pictures of knives and guns on my next exam -- my teacher had to be convinced to even let me back into her class, so I thought she'd find even less humor in that.
And that the email was selectively leaked; it was one of many sent back and forth between the players that night; one of the very next emails referenced that movie.
The IP number of the sending Email server is in the header of the Email. They can find out were the Email came from.
I KNEW there was something they were leaving out regarding that e-mail!