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It worked for UW up north...

One suit from Wisconsin for Miami tampering with Xavier Lucas is not enough for Mario and Miami.

Wisconsin - EX: A - Video of Miami in the champ game with the poached Xavier Lucas out for the first half and in for the 2nd half.

Why not tick off a conference member? Why not tick off a conference standard-bearer in academics and basketball?

BTW, playing behind the QB you are trying to steal, a QB who signed a two-season contract, Duke was this season's ACC football champ, and defeated ASU in the Sun Bowl, 42-39.

Rouges then and rogues now.

What happens if Duke wins? What happens if Duke wins and this QB is forced to stick around? Do you start a QB whom you just clubbed with a lawsuit and does that QB choose to perform or poison the entire locker room? What a mess. It will be interesting to see what happens at UW this year with a similar situation.

These guys want to get to the NFL, not just ruin a school.

If someone is forced to stay and take the millions, they will ball out the best they can to get the best deal they can at the next level.

That´s what they do at the next level. They ball out the best they can before they turn free agent to get the best contract they can somewhere else. Might as well learn the tactic in college. (After all, you are a STUDENT- athlete.)

56 minutes ago, Santa Rosa Duck said:

What happens if Duke wins? What happens if Duke wins and this QB is forced to stick around? Do you start a QB whom you just clubbed with a lawsuit and does that QB choose to perform or poison the entire locker room? What a mess. It will be interesting to see what happens at UW this year with a similar situation.

Williams and the Williams family retreated when UW promised to sue to uphold the contract he signed, and after his agent dumped him.

The Judge in the Duke case ruled that Duke had to put the QB in the portal, but has yet to rule on whether he will grant another preliminary injunction to allow him to sign with another team, or if he does sign, whether his NIL money is his or Duke's property.

The excerpts from the contract he signed with Duke are clear that, in return for the consideration paid to him by Duke, he assigned his NIL rights to Duke for two seasons and agreed not to enter the portal in 2025 or 2026.

He is, under the laws of North Carolina, an adult who entered willingly into a contract as so advised by his agents.

Like Wisconsin and UW, I'm pleased to see Duke stepping up to enforce the deal the QB signed. Without any guardrails, what's to stop players from transferring in-season?

The NCAA says a player can only play for one team in a given season, but when was the last time an NCAA rule was upheld in favor of a player's opportunity to make more money?

Like Williams, after the requisite mea culpas, he'll be welcomed back.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall the next time the Duke and Miami ADs meet up.

Miami is working its way out of a Super Conference invite.