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NC State Distributes Modest Agent Warning Letter

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The latest “agent warning letter” is brought to you by the Office of General Counsel at NC State University and delivered via mail to individuals registered as Athlete Agents with the North Carolina Secretary of State’s Office.

The letter informs agents that NC State has formed a Professional Sports Counseling Panel and requests that if agents wish to speak to a student-athlete that they make such contact through the Panel chairperson and NC State’s Deputy General Counsel.

One football agent describes the letter as “quite modest compared to many of the others.”  It reiterates certain NCAA regulations and Uniform Athlete Agent Act provisions that most agents should be familiar with.

The letter is embedded, below.

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.

2 replies on “NC State Distributes Modest Agent Warning Letter”

So is “modest” bad? Not firm enough? Where’s the story here?

By “requesting” agents take such action, we’re just being polite is all. 🙂

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