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Anyone who's dated a crazy chick knows the vengeful anger state of grief often results in cars getting keyed.
I don't believe you.
Plenty of people have attended undergraduate institutions for 4 years where they had to suffer through down cycles. ****, my niece might graduate from F$U in a few years having witnessed nothing but losing seasons.
But having to watch bad teams for a few years doesn't give you a license to troll. Period. "Cynicism" and "low expectations" are one thing. But what you do is completely different and toxic.
Because after getting his Duke "divinity" degree, he went to law school at North Carolina...CENTRAL...
Can we ban this guy again?
Every Hulk Hogan needs an Iron Sheik.
I liked our physicality on O this past season. IF we can keep that going, I don't want to change the O all that much. It helped us beat the great teams with elite defenses, which is what we will need to do to win a title. I wouldn't go back to the 2024 O, because as exciting as it was, it might not beat Ohio State, Ole Miss, Texas A&M in the wind, or Indiana. Mensah will be a massive upgrade over Beck, but I would keep the physicality and simply add more downfield passing with a QB that can do that. Yes, we'll throw the ball more, and we'll stress every defense we play more because of it, and that will only allow Fletcher more room to work.
Bottom line, if we had Mensah this year, running basically the same O, we win every game. Do we really want to tinker with that too much? Having Mensah will give us more options, but we don't need to reinvent the wheel. We just need to give it a little alignment.
I am excited for next season.
Absolutely correct with this post.
Here is the mistake that David McKenzie (and many sports commentators) are making...over and over and over again.
They do not see the BIG PICTURE of what the NCAA has moved to (open transfer rules) and they hyper-focus on specific clauses in specific NIL agreements as if some school or some conference has finally cracked the nuclear code on how to prevent a kid from transferring after signing an NIL deal.
Spoiler alert: they can't.
Not only can these schools no longer enslave student-athletes and OWN THEM (and/or their NIL rights), but they also can't exceed the simplest and most basic NCAA rules and rights.
50,000 university lawyers and 500,000 typing monkeys have been trying to craft the perfect trap for two years now, the most amazingly written set of limitations and penalties and clauses that will prevent a student-athlete from transferring (or else cause him/her grievous finanacial penalties).
But they can't. They can't prevent the transfer.
You can't buy loyalty. You can demand it, you can inspire it, but you can't purchase it, not when a student-athlete has the right to move on for a wide variety of reasons...or simple whims...or spite...
Instead, we have to hear windbags like David McKenzie telling us how "the Duke contract does all kinds of things that the Wisconsin contract didn't do...it's ironclad...airtight...uptight...outtasite...it's automatic...it's systematic...it's hydromatic...". While David McKenzie may be a competent attorney, he doesn't realize that he is on a fool's errand, searching for the (non-existent) holy grail of anti-transfer contractual language, to prevent a student-athlete from doing the very thing that he/she has every right to do.
Transfer.
And having said that, I have NO PROBLEMS with schools seeking recoupment of money they have already paid for "value" they will never receive. There are only two choices here. Either (a) recognize that every deal is, essentially, a one-year deal (while doing everything a coach can do to keep his players happy and motivated), or (b) acknowledge that every year PAST the first year is still written in erasable ink (while drafting repayment-recoupment-clawback clauses accordingly).
I respect the right of attorneys like David McKenzie (and better attorneys) to analyze these NIL clauses in a vacuum. They may be perfectly valid contractual clauses in a wide variety of non-NIL settings.
But as it relates to the ability of student-athletes to enter the Portal and transfer to a new school, these clauses cannot and should not be allowed to stand, take precedence over the NCAA rules, or cause substantial economic harm to 18 and 19 and 20 year old student-athletes that these schools are purporting to want to educate.
I also truly think having an entire team of 21-23yr olds battling 18-19yr olds plays a part
Mario and Mensah walking around campus hiding from people so they aren’t seen together
I think Duke should fail big time. They tried to lock up a player for multiple years using NIL when that’s not what NIL is for. It’s to provide compensation for using a players likeness it’s not to contract a player to play for your team and no other team. Doing so wholly breaks the entire reason for NIL.
In this case they’re trying to stop him from earning his market value. NIL deals shouldn’t bind, if you want to make them more attractive by guaranteeing money for multiple years fine, but there should be a clause that gives the player the right to get out during the portal window.
If the ncaa wants to limit movement then let them, but the schools are not a college football rules or enforcement bodies.
They also used deceptive language to circumvent not only the intent of NIL but also to make their contracts pay for play when they have been told by their governing body the contracts can’t be pay for play.
Duke is trying to be cute to not only circumvent the rules created by the college football governing body but too also circumvent the entire intent of NIL. All to their benefit and to the detriment of the player. Institutions that do this should be punished not rewarded. They should lose all the money in the contract and face NCAA punishment. Mensah should have zero restrictions and if he incurs any financial damage they should have to pay up.
This isn’t something that can be explained in 90 seconds or less unless you are good with:
“Don’t worry about it. He’s a Cane.!”
Cig portal transfers by year: 31, 23, 17
Deion: 43, 34, 42
TrumpyCane gets your point but it's also a bit different
His X profile is laughable.
He doesn't mention that is is a Carson-Newman alum, or a North Carolina CENTRAL alum.
He just allows you to believe that his "graduate degree in Divinity" somehow transforms him into a Duke lawyer.
Hey, I took a continuing education course at Harvard once, maybe I should just say I'm a "Harvard alum". Actually, I think that George Santos did something similar...
I myself am a Harvard Business School grad as well these days…
I dont See how schools think they can enforce this especially if you aren’t considering these student athletes as employees of the school
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