With the contract signed, Kerr's ten-year career as a professional player began.

Throughout his years in Europe, Kerr also trained to become a coach. In the off-season, he took a number of courses and earned his preliminary coaching badge.

"Getting my badge whetted my appetite for doing coaching in the future, and I did a few camps and a few after-school programs in England while I was playing," Kerr said. "I knew that at some point in time I wanted to see what other things were out there after my playing career was over."

After a long stay in Europe, Kerr returned to the United States and won a championship with the San Diego Sockers, a member of a professional indoor soccer league that folded after his first season at home.

Stranded, without a contract in a country that did not have many opportunities to play professional soccer, Kerr returned to Duke in the fall of 1992 as the number one assistant coach.

After going 10-9 in 1991, the Blue Devils went 16-4 and reached the semi-finals of the NCAAs in 1992, losing to the eventual winner Virginia.

"Not that I'm taking all the credit it for it, but I know I played an integral part in getting the changeover in Duke during that year," Kerr said.

Feeling the itch to get back out on the field, Kerr left Duke after that season and spent the next six years playing with the English professional team Millwall, the Dallas Burn and New England Revolution of the MLS and for the last two years with the Bulldogs as a player-coach.