It was a reflection of the lacrosse team's station at Duke that, when the school decided, in 2005, that Tailgate needed to be reined in (many revellers never bothered to leave the party to attend the football game), administrators asked the lacrosse coach, Mike Pressler, for help.
He followed that with a post attacking the game's administrators – "a ragbag of chess amateurs who think they should be important but lack the knowledge and skill" – and said that his disaffection with the English Chess Federation was so great that he had switched his allegiance to Wales, making him the country's first grandmaster.
But to convince supporters that restructuring heralds a new dawn, the game's administrators may need to don the battle fatigues anew.
Speaking ahead of the game, joint administrator Paul Clark said new information about the takeover and running of the club had become available and they expected to prepare a proper statement on the finances of the club next week.
We incorporate asymmetric information and incongruent objectives between a creditor and an insolvency administrator into a sequential game.
And in an early example of a consistent journalistic theme down the years, he was no fan of the game's administrators: "Football legislators are a queer set, and a capital type of the standstill, querulous old Tory.
Touchdown celebrations – tightly choreographed and planned with near-military precision – have become an integral part of modern football, but the game's administrators have long waged a war to curtail them.
While 2004 marked centenary and jubilee celebrations for FIFA and UEFA respectively, the next few years will see a further transfer of power from the game's administrators to the mega-clubs.
The bowl game's administrators also had a contract to include Notre Dame if that school met certain entry requirements.
It is a sad indictment of Scotland's leading clubs, never mind the game's administrators, that this situation remains unresolved.
