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Introducing Paul D.

SportsAgentBlog.com – I Want to be a Sports Agent has just become a party of 7 with the introduction of our sixth contributor (not including me): Paul D. He is starting his 2nd year at NC State, and will be focusing on college (mostly football) players who are not your
typical big name (ex. Brian Brohm) but still someone for agents to keep an eye out for.

What we potential and current agents sometimes forget is that much of the business revolves around representing the players who do not appear on national Sprite/Nike/Converse/etc. advertisements. It will be a nice twist to see Paul D. uncover some of the lesser known athletes that many agents may want to focus on.

Believe it or not, I have still not made it through all of my e-mails. Wish me luck!

-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 “Introducing Paul D.”

yeah, the point of my blog is that everyone knows a player like brian brohm, but if you are starting off as an agent, you will most likely have no shot at a guy like brohm because companies like CAA and SFX will be all over him. its important to be able to recognize other kinds of talent if you want to break into an industry like this.

Ah, ok. Indeed a misinterpretation. I’ll definitely be looking forward to your views, Paul. Playing scouting is one of my big interests and having an eye for talent and potential is something that can be very valuable for smaller agencies/independent agents.

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