Donald Wine

If they secure one of those guys...

That also changes the calculus because now Derry Minster can say, okay, you don't need a starting quarterback anymore.

You got your guy.

So then again, that's why I say the monetary damages part would come into play and it'll just be what the number is going to be.

Will it be, will Duke want to go punitive and say, Hey, let's make it so that nobody ever breaks a contract like this again.

But I think also Jason opens this up.

As I mentioned, we're at a situation now where this case is kind of, again, being watched by so many people for one big reason.

roster instability that's what this and i that's why a lot of people don't like uh the transfer portal is because roster instability they want to still have guys be able to go between schools and go to the school they want to go to but they want their coaches and they want their schools to be able to say hey we got these guys lined up for the next two years we got this offensive line in place so we got this quarterback in place and he's not going anywhere

This multi-year deal that Mensa is trying to get out of is going to signal the end of multi-year deals if this case goes a particular direction.

Nope.

No school is going to offer it because they'll just say, oh, well, guys are going to attempt to break it after a couple years.

And no player will enter into it because they're going to want the flexibility to negotiate a higher salary after a year.

Now, I'll also say this.

One thing people need to keep in mind, that this is not a unilateral contract.

Contracts are meant to protect both parties.

If Darian Mensah, because in this contract, specifically it says that they won't withhold NIL payments in the case of a bad performance.

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.