Scott Rich

Maybe slightly less so in the world of athletics, but I would argue you still want to have that network.

You know, you still want to have fans of Duke University look back on your time somewhat fondly rather than despising you.

You know, Duke fans still love Riley Leonard for the most part, even though he transferred to Notre Dame.

It was understandable.

Mike Elko had just left.

Duke was not in the state that it is now.

He had the chance to go compete for a national championship in Notre Dame.

I think most Duke fans really enjoyed when he got his chance to, you know, to play for Indianapolis and start, you know, those couple of games this year because we still have really fond memories of that young man.

that's going to serve him well in his life, having a Duke network supporting him.

I don't think there's any Duke fans who are going to be feeling similarly about Darian Mensah.

And I just hope that he factored that into his decision-making.

If he decided that the extra money that he was going to make from this year at Miami outweighed the lifetime of connections and relationships that he was burning,

then he made the right decision for him.

But I feel like too often in this world of agents and camps and everyone getting in someone's ear, that those factors aren't included in the decision making.

And again, I hope Darian Mensah made the right decision for him rather than just making a knee-jerk reaction to a shiny dollar figure amount.

So I want to I want to respond to two things, one with the suing element of this story.

You know, there's.

There's the you know, when you talk about punishing wrongdoing, there's sort of the theory of punitive versus restorative justice.

Are you you know, if someone is is broken a law, are you putting them in jail for as long as possible?

Because that's what makes you feel better because they've wronged you.