Prior to the article, Confessions of an Agent, being released, Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated interviewed George Dohrmann on Deitsch’s Inside Sports Illustrated Podcast. You should be able to listen to the interview in its entirety by clicking here. Dohrmann explains how he gained access to the information and reveals his goals and what he thinks will happen based on the article’s publication. Here was one Q&A that is relevant to one of my published works and another major work of mine that is currently in progress.
Richard Deitsch: Do you have any kind of sense of how you think this story will resonate? Are people so immune to the idea that college kids are taking money that Josh Luchs will be an interesting story but have no effect?…What’s your sense at least of where this is going to go after this piece comes out?
George Dohrmann: I think, I hope, and I have a sense that maybe some of the states and maybe even the feds will take a look at this and say ‘gosh these agent laws are not being enforced and maybe we need to do something about that’. You know with a federal statute or something that could create a little more bite so that when agents break the rules they have to pay for it kind of like we see Gary Wichard in North Carolina is under investigation…
I also think it is worth pointing out that Dohrmann is not attacking the sports agent industry. In fact, he notes that many athletes have their hands out. It is not agents and others praying on innocent kids. It is a two-way street.
