“It was nice to have somebody invested in the sports industry, invested in myself, there to help me make the correct informed decision.”NCAA rules governing baseball and ice hockey allow high school players to hire advisers as long as those advisers are paid their normal fees. Under proposals put forth by the Condoleezza Rice-headed Commission on College Basketball, facets of those baseball-hockey rules would be applied to high school and college basketball players. Previously, advisers could not perform agent duties such as negotiating a contract whether for a high school player or a player who’s draft-eligible in his third year at a four-year school. His high school coach recommended a friend, Scott Pucino, who heads the baseball division for Octagon sports and entertainment agency. The Skoug family paid a few hundred dollars for Pucino’s services — “inconsequential for what we got,” said Evan’s father, John Skoug.

Source: National Post May 08, 2018 07:10 UTC