08/07: The NCAA wrongly changed its player-agent rule, angering LeBron James and presidential candidates in the process
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, news leaked that the NCAA made major alterations to its rules regarding which agents could represent players in the pre-draft process. The rule modifications have been widely panned, most notably by LeBron James, who dubbed it #TheRichPaulRule, though the guys explain why that's not true at all. The podcast opens with a 25-minute conversation on this, then gets to Evan Mobley (26:45), the No. 1 prospect in 2020, finally committing to where his father and brother already are: USC. Now we wait on the No. 2 prospect, who has a family member employed at Oklahoma State, to commit. Cade Cunningham, what's the hold-up? The pod wraps with a cool story on a D-III player with NBA connections who wound up committing to Illinois this week (48:00).
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| 1:00.0 | Is here with me and I supposed to big a story the past few days is the fact that the NCAA on Monday issued a memo to agents outlining new certification requirements for them to represent players testing the waters as it relates to the NBA draft agents who want to do this must now |
| 1:18.0 | have a bachelor's degree B have in BPA certification for at least three consecutive years C have professional liability insurance D complete an in person exam taken at the NCAA office in Indianapolis this November and |
| 1:36.0 | they must also agree to cooperate with the NCAA in investigations of rules violations. |
| 1:43.0 | So there's obviously a lot going on here and the NCAA is mostly getting killed for this primarily because these requirements would at least in theory prevent one of the biggest player agents on the planet Rich Paul from representing players testing the waters because Rich Paul does not have a bachelor's degree now. |
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