The NFL Players Association legal department announced that agent Marlon Sullivan has been suspended for six months and fined $10,000 for improperly supervising a recruiter. According to the NFLPA, the recruiter provided money to a former college player as an inducement to sign with Sullivan. Under NFPA regulations, agents are held responsible for the actions of their recruiters whether or not they have knowledge of or approved of misconduct. The NFLPA release also stated that Sullivan failed to sign a disclosure form acknowledging that Sullivan would pay the recruiter a fee to recruit the player. The NFLPA's website doesn't list any active NFL player contracts for Sullivan. Source: National Football Post
Thank God the NFLPA is getting involved with this problem. Now maybe NCAA football can clean itself up with their help.
It's a start at least. If an agent knows he will get slapped with a fine and lose 6 months of representation they my not be so quick to involve themselves with these college kids.
If the NCAA wasn't trying to clean it up, then you wouldn't see these schools getting investigated so hard. This is a good thing. Finally the agents are getting punished, not just the kids that they are abusing.
