Imo, a court is not likely to make Mensah play for Duke or forbid him playing for Miami. (Of course, he might decide to do that.) The fight will be about how much money he/Miami will have to pay Duke. Duke might argue it should more than 'normal' in this situation because the timing of his...
The scheduling this year was definitely bad. But I don't know of a future (or, for that matter, past) schedule where we play our two toughest opponents first. I don't know who signed off on that.
Apparently he doesn't practice on the field as much as other coaches. Could that explain the lack of injuries? It seemed like a lot of the big injuries last year happened in camp.
Apart from Carr improving, our defense and OL were functional by the end of the season. And maybe the OC decides to give the ball to the Heisman candidate RB a little more often.