Comments on: Agent #721

By: DarrenHeitner

DarrenHeitner — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:39:05 +0000

State licenses are completely different than players association
licenses. If you want to personally rep nfl players you must also
become nflpa certified.

By: Bayboy

Bayboy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:16:53 +0000

So you dont have to actually pay nfl to be a cerfied agent if you get state license.

By: Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:42:04 +0000

Neither. You need to register in states where you are contacting college athletes with the intention of serving as their contractual negotiator in the future. follow @Darren_Heitner on twitter

By: Mimi

Mimi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:40:04 +0000

Does a Sport Agent needs to register in every state that he represents an athlete? Or only in the state he resides in?

please email me with information

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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:00:45 +0000

[...] Darren Heitner: In order to be a “sports agent”, there is no actual registration. To be permitted to recruit collegiate athletes in many states, you must register and pay a fee in those states. A majority of states are now bound by the Uniform Athlete Agent Act (UAAA), which allows those states to use a standardized form for registration. Those states charge various amounts, however. Personally, I am registered in the State of Florida. I actually discussed this process in a recent post. [...]

By: Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:33:19 +0000

While the UAAA has made the application process much easier and standardized for all UAAA states, each state still requires that an athlete-agent separately register in each respective state and pay that state’s application fee.

By: Austin Walton

Austin Walton — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:59:37 +0000

I think this is a question that many readers may wnat to know the answer to:

If a state subscibes to the UAAA does that mean an athlete-agent can register in one state and its good for all the other UAAA registered states?

By: Joshua Golka

Joshua Golka — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:28:12 +0000

Good advice in the post Darren, especially the point about athletes also having a responsibility as well. Too often athletes rely on a friend or another athlete without doing anything further. Athletes and those close to them have to remember that they are placing their professional future in the hands of the agent and the choice should not be made without a fair amount of research and thought.

I should point out that your line “you must only do so if you wish to recruit a Student athlete” is not true all states. California’s disclosure requirements apply to both professional and student athletes.

Keep up the great work.