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Rich Paul’s Powerful Piece Over NCAA’s New Agent Restrictions

The NCAA issued a memo to agents outlining new certification requirements in order to represent players looking to enter the NBA Draft. The first qualification is that the agent has to have a bachelor’s degree at minimum. They also need to be certified with the NBPA for a minimum of three years and take an in-person exam at the NCAA Office.

This caused some backlash due to the sports’ biggest agent, Rich Paul, founder of Klutch Sports Group, not having a bachelor’s degree. LeBron James and other NBA stars came in to defend the agent and blasted the NCAA, dubbing the new criteria, the ‘Rich Paul Rule’.

Now, Rich Paul himself wrote a piece for The Athletic and presented his thoughts on the controversial topic.

“Requiring a four-year degree accomplishes only one thing – systematically excluding those who come from a world where college is unrealistic.”

Agent Rich Paul authors powerful piece in @TheAthletic on so-called “Rich Paul Rules” — NCAA’s new certification requirement for agents to hold a bachelor’s degree. https://t.co/OJCrZ7h8VH pic.twitter.com/zWgb6eY2E4

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 12, 2019