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Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

And our reward is they're trying to approach our quarterback.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

I think you mentioned European soccer and just soccer in general.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

As these talk about employees happen, one thing that could, because if you think about it right, coaches can leave all the time.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

Coaches, when they leave for another school, they have contracts too.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

But there's something in that contract that allows them to leave, whether it's a buyout, whether it, again, whether there's some provision that allows them to leave.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

And if these college kids are employees of the school, they can negotiate those sort of deals with those type of buyouts.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

And schools can negotiate multi-year deals with their players with some buyouts.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

And if that's the case and another team wants to come through and say, hell, we actually want your quarterback, we could do transfer fees.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

That happens in the business world all the time.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

Like, hey, we'll do this.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

We'll pay you this over here to release this guy from his contract so he can sign with us.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

It doesn't just happen in sports.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

But that is something that would put it into this and, again, would make it where we wouldn't have to worry about at the 11th hour some guy deciding to flip and leaving us in a lurch because at least we have โ€“

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

X amount of money doing it.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

And this happens in soccer all the time too.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

The deadline, you know, of the transfer window closes and all of a sudden you see a flurry of transactions because people are like trying to get deals across the line before it shuts.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

And, but at least everyone's going to know about what's happening.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

And it doesn't feel like a player is abandoning his team at the 11th hour.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

It relies more on what teams can get.

Duke Basketball Roundup
DBR Bites #136 - More on Mensah's Portal Entry

And, of course, the rumors out there are that Duke is pursuing DJ Lagway, which has been reported on a bunch of different sites.