Last week, Georgia Tech lost its 2009 ACC Conference Championship, was told that it has to pay a $100,000 fine, and is on 4-years of probation all because the NCAA found out that a friend of an employee of an Atlanta, Georgia sports agency provided impermissible benefits to a football player on that 2009 football team. Actually, […]
Category: Recruiting
Last week, Jayson Stark of ESPN.com wrote the following: Scott Boras’ latest attempt to free-agent-nap another marquee player — in this case, as first reported by Fox’s Ken Rosenthal, Mets dynamo Jose Reyes — was nothing new, other agents say. Now, technically, there is nothing illegal about it, as long as Boras reports all contact with […]
One of the people that I met at the 2011 Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) Annual Conference in Washington D.C. is Roy Kessel, founder of sports law blog, From the Bench. Roy is also founder of the Sports Philanthropy Foundation (SPF), instructor in Northwestern University’s Masters in Sports Administration Program, and served for many years as […]
Earlier this week, I received quite a few calls from journalists asking my thoughts on a Texas sports agent bill that has passed through the state’s House of Representatives and Senate, and now awaits Texas Governor Rick Perry’s signature. What caught many people’s attention is a clause in the legislation that enables the state of […]
Sharp shooter Shelvin Mack from Butler has placed his name into the 2011 NBA Draft player pool and will not be returning to school for his senior season. Instead, Mack is deep into the process of interviewing agents, narrowing down the group of potential suitors to three: Octagon, The Neustadt Group, and ASM Sports. The three […]
Choose to play basketball at the University of Central Florida (UCF) over offers from Georgia, Louisville, and UCLA, and you are sure to attract attention. That is exactly what happened when the talented Kevin Ware picked UCF over these historically much stronger basketball programs. Unfortunately for UCF, it also made outsiders focus on the institution […]
Agents feel as though all of their information is proprietary. They are always fearful that others will use their information against them. That is one reason why many agencies refuse to put their client information on the websites. They believe that putting names out there will allow rivals an opportunity to view the list and […]
Many people would say that in a perfect world, athletes do not select their agents based on how much money an agent gives or promises a player. In the real world, that is certainly not always the case. However, many athletes do see through these gifts and/or promises and realize what they are all about […]
In the past three months, I have traveled around the country, speaking at six different universities. Most of the time the topic touched upon, or was centered on, ethics in the sports agent profession. A common question from the audience is how to fix a system that practically allows agents to give student-athletes benefits without […]
The Portsmouth Invitational (basketball’s version of the “Senior Bowl”) just finished. The craziness of the basketball world will be at an all time high this week. The players that we have worked over the last two weeks (Corey Stokes, Alex Tyus, and Julyan Stone) all had above average showings for their positions. All three players chose their […]