Donald Wine

Because if that comes into play, and I'm sure Darian Mensah is going to allege that, right?

He's going to say in his defense that, okay, they're saying that this contract is about NIL only.

but they're suing to keep me to play football for them.

So this clearly creates an employee relationship that they say doesn't exist.

But if it does exist, then I have additional protections.

And then also, so do my teammates when it comes to NIL contracts.

And that'll open up a lot of doors for unionization and things like that.

But I think those are the four things.

I think, honestly, the one that's probably the most likely is

is option two.

The like, hey, you know what?

He don't want to play for us.

We don't want a quarterback that doesn't want to be here.

Yeah, he may have breached the contract, but let's arrive at that dumb number that we at least will be happy with.

They may be upset at, but they'll be willing to pay it, and then we'll get about here.

That's how most court cases are solved in this country.

A compromise where both people walk away from the table.

And I will mention that I did mention that yesterday the old judge had ruled on the temporary restraining order portion of things, but not the preliminary injunction.

This February 2nd hearing is called the return hearing.

So the new judge, Ed Wilson, who, by the way, is a UVA and Wake Forest law alum, so no ties to Duke.