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So Long Darren Gill

On behalf of myself, Matthew Vuckovich, Chris Lesley, and all of our readers here at SportsAgentBlog.com, I would like to warmly thank Darren Gill for his week of service. Mr. Gill has provided very insightful posts from an established Sports Agent’s point of view, and it was refreshing to have a new persona writing on this site. It was also nice to see some healthy debates in the comment sections of various posts. I would like to encourage more discussion through the comments area in the future.

Over the past week, SportsAgentBlog.com has increased its daily average of viewers to a steady 200 hits per day, and it even reached into 1,500 when we were linked by Deadspin (we love Deadspin). Due to the success of Darren Gill’s Guest Contributor status, this site plans to have another agent blog for a week on issues of his/her choice in the near future.

For a look back at the posts that Darren Gill has contributed over this past week:

“Want to be like Drew”

The First Client

What We Really Learnt From Jerry Maguire

Representation in The CFL

Chasing the Client

The Canadian Football League – Continued

Now go back to being a successful agent and give me my name back!

-Darren Heitner

By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.

4 replies on “So Long Darren Gill”

Darren, Your site is great. Being at Florida, maybe a post about Horford, Noah, Green and Brewer and their draft prospects, interaction with agents, runners, etc. this season and how each player is going about considering entering the draft this year would be insightful. Also, that Gill character can’t be making too much money repping CFL players, but it was good that he took time to write for your site. Also, maybe a post about why you and so many other people want to be agents would be great. What really motivates you? Thanks.

Thanks to both of you for the comments.

Jordan- I will try to take some time to talk about some of the issues you bring up. Thanks for being a consistent visitor of the site!

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