Will high-profile agents be put out of business by NCAA?
Sources told SportsBusiness Journal, a sister publication of Sporting News, that one of the things the NCAA is investigating is who paid for Austin’s training at Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Proactive Sports Performance, a training facility where all of Wichard’s rookie clients have trained for the NFL draft in the last five years. Austin is listed as a client on Proactive Sports’ website. Officials from the training facility did not return phone calls or an e-mail.
Wichard has been quoted as saying that he has not traveled to North Carolina nor recruited Austin. “I’ve never talked to him about representing him. I’ve never gone down there [to North Carolina] and I never will,” Wichard told The Charlotte Observer earlier this month.
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7/26/10
