While in “the business” for only a short amount of time, I have become perplexed by the concept of the client recruiting process – the stories of true relationships, those that are fake, and some that end like bad marriages have given me an interest in why it is so tedious both from a compliance […]
Category: Recruiting
One of the main things that I will be watching during this year’s NFL Draft is the success of Joe Flanagan and his DePere, Wisconsin based company, BTI Sports. Flanagan, a licensed attorney, is a Co-Founder of BTI Sports along with his partner, Brad Leshnock. As of the publishing of this post, Dominic Perilli predicts that […]
It has recently become a trend for state attorneys general to claim that sports agents will be prosecuted for violating their respective state athlete agent laws. Whether there is anything behind their words remains to be seen. The most recent attorney general to put sports agents on notice is Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. McDaniel […]
An hour before the ball dropped on December 31, 2010, the Washington Post published a piece by Mark Giannotto titled, Virginia Tech football players work to avoid being distracted by agents. Tonight, the Virginia Tech Hokies will battle the Stanford Cardinal in the Orange Bowl, but as Giannotto pointed out, the game’s actors have been […]
Marvin Austin was front and center in the 2010 UNC Football Scandal. He is now at the head of the Maximum Sports Management 2010 Draft Class. The company is currently celebrating having 6 players selected to the 2010 Pro Bowl (Jairus Byrd, Steven Jackson, Larry Fitzgerald, Jason peters, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, and Adrian Wilson), but be […]
I am currently in the process of writing an article to be published in a law review/journal with sports lawyer Jason Wolf regarding the new MLBPA Regulations Governing Agents as amended on October 1, 2010. One of the new provisions in the new Regulations requires agents who wish to recruit players represented by others to […]
Matt Whittier, President of O-DLife, has sent a new message to agents titled, An Open Letter to All Agents. In the body of the email, Whittier wrote, You’re receiving this due to the respect that we have for your past business endeavors. We feel that you have a great deal to offer the players of […]
Arkansas is one of the forty states that has passed the Uniform Athlete Agents Act (UAAA), which requires sports agents to become licensed in the state in order to act as an athlete agent and recruit student-athletes with aspirations of going pro. One of the main goals of the UAAA is to prevent agents from […]
Late last Friday, the NFL Players Association released an official announcement that Gary Wichard is hereby suspended from acting as an NFLPA Contract Advisor for nine months and that Teague Egan‘s NFLPA Certification was revoked. Wichard was suspended for having impermissible communication with UNC’s Marvin Austin prior to Austin being eligible for the NFL Draft. […]
Scott Boras‘ company might have exploited Dominican Republic talented baseball players by giving them and their families loans and other payments in return for a better chance to represent the players and earn back the money paid out, and more, through the commissions received on their signing bonuses. Scott Boras and his company would stand to […]