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Division I Post-Enrollment Agent and Amateurism Issues

Division I Post-Enrollment Agent and Amateurism Issues. Rachel Newman Baker, NCAA Director of Agent, Gambling and Amateurism Activities Josh Luchs, Former NFL Agent. Agent Trends. Outside third parties. No healthy fear by agents or student-athletes/perceived lack of enforcement.

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Division I Post-Enrollment Agent and Amateurism Issues

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  1. Division I Post-Enrollment Agent and Amateurism Issues Rachel Newman Baker, NCAA Director of Agent, Gambling and Amateurism Activities Josh Luchs, Former NFL Agent

  2. Agent Trends • Outside third parties. • No healthy fear by agents or student-athletes/perceived lack of enforcement. • Assistant coaches relationships/ involvement with agents. • Disability Insurance. • Student-athletes training at pre-NFL and NBA Combine and private training facilities. • Emergence of outside consulting agencies.

  3. Trend No. 1 Outside Third Parties • Who are they? • Marketing Agents. • Financial Advisors. • Brand Managers. • “Advisors.”

  4. What do they do? • Arrange interviews with agents. • Provide disability insurance. • Serve as a memorabilia collector. • Use current professional players who attended institution to recruit student-athletes for discounted fees or services. • Connect student-athletes with party-promoters.

  5. What problems do they present? • Attach themselves to student-athletes early and develop a relationship of trust. • No one has jurisdiction over them (NCAA, professional leagues, professional players associations, state agencies etc).

  6. Trend No. 2 No healthy fear and a perceived lack of enforcement. • Student-athletes. • Agents.

  7. Trend No. 3 Assistant coaches relationships with agents • Assistant coaches looking for head coaching jobs. • Strength coaches charging agents.

  8. Trend No. 4 Disability Insurance • Used as recruiting tool with student-athletes. • Outside third parties involved with arrangements. • Student-athletes obtain an NCAA policy and then have a second policy with an outside company.

  9. Hot topic issues among coaches and membership • A need for better information provided to elite student-athletes to make informed decisions. • Who is the best person to provide that information? • Do we send mixed messages to student-athletes between recruiting process and time on campus?

  10. Hot topic issues among coaches and membership • If the student-athlete loses faith in coach or institution to provide information, who do they trust? • Professional leagues? • Professional players unions? • NCAA? • Agents? • A combination of the above?

  11. Hot Topic Issues Continued • Disagreement on where the line should be drawn in regard to agents. • Student-athletes accepting benefits from agents.

  12. NCAA/NFLPA/NFL/AFCA/CCA Working Group The group has identified opportunities for greater collaboration, including enforcement efforts, potential post-NCAA financial penalties, best practices for the effective enforcement of state agent laws, educational efforts, as well as an examination of the frequency and timing of agent contact with student-athletes.

  13. From an Agent’s Perspective • Josh Luchs, Former NFL Agent

  14. Questions/Comments

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