Chansky’s Notebook: Street Cred Counts, Too
Posted Aug 13, 2019
Thanks to Rich Paul, LeBron’s friend from high school who had earned the trust of the King, the NCAA backed off degree requirement for agents. For the NCAA to assume a college degree will automatically prepare someone to be an agent, when grass-roots relationships and street cred are often more valuable than anything learned in a classroom, is ludicrous.
(Chapelboro.com)
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