Did you know that 41 states have passed the Uniform Athlete Agents Act? This is a law crafted by the NCAA to restrict contact between sports agents and college athletes. Such contact was part of the NCAA rules. Now it is part of our laws.
If you hand money or give advice to a college athlete, you are breaking the law. The law goes beyond agents; those who act as go-betweens for the agents can also be tried under this law. The first such case is happening in North Carolina.
Jennifer Wiley Thompson was an academic adviser for North Carolina athletes. Of course, the question of why athletes have academic advisers and other students don't boggles the mind. She was accused of helping athletes write better papers. She also passed $3,309 from an agent to a player. It is for this she is being tried, although it was not her money; she simply was a transfer agent.
The NCAA is working on expanding the Act to cover high school athletes.
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