Donald Wine

Based on performance.

And so if Darian Mensah came to Duke and he sucked, he'd still be getting $4 million this year from this contract.

He may not enter the portal, but...

he would be the guy that goes, oh, well, I guess I'm going to be the highest paid, you know, terrible starter in college football.

That could have also happened.

And Duke would have been able to, I guess Duke could have, but Duke would not have been able to go, oh, it's because you're terrible on the field that we don't want to pay you this money anymore.

I think that's a good point because also I'm sure Darian Minson is going to kind of talk about that, right?

Not in this specific way, right?

He might feel that, again, your lucid thoughts are an emotional one in part, right?

Like, how dare he?

That's an emotional response to that.

Sure, of course.

And that's totally fine.

And you're totally free to have that.

We are in that section.

And it brings up a good point.

Because Derry Mintz is going to say that they're acting out of emotion and suing him.

Would they have done the same if he had entered the portal three weeks ago?

Again, when they've had the time to look for a quarterback and maybe go after one of the top quarterbacks.

If he had declared for the NFL draft three weeks ago, which was a possibility, would they have said,