Here's my conspiracy theory about Antione.
If you remember, he signed his NLoI with us before deciding he had to go to ECU. We could have made him use a transfer, but we let him out of his NLoI.
At the time, I imagined that the deal was, 'We'll let you go if you're just going to ECU to be with your girl. We're not letting you go to FSU or Colorado or anywhere else.'
But maybe it was even deeper, like, 'If you hit the portal, we get the right of first refusal.'
I understand it could not be explicitly like this, but maybe this was the idea all along, in some unsaid but understood sense.