Harriet Ryan

We'll see how things go.

It's against interscholastic rules in every state.

You can't pay a player to play, but it doesn't violate any criminal laws that I know of, but it does violate the rules of sports.

So every state has, like, an association, a federation that's supposed to do this.

But, you know, like, California Interest Classification, it's not the FBI.

They don't have, like, hundreds of agents.

They're not going to, you know, subpoena your bank records.

She was telling people, like, look, we're getting a deal down here.

We're getting the equivalent of $15,000 a month, and this is, like, a deal I can't resist.

You have agents who, you know, formerly represented NFL players who are now watching middle school practice.

Yeah.

I mean, there's like, you know, there's travel teams in football.

And, you know, these are under 13 kids.

I mean, the thing is, if you can identify talent at a young age and get in, even if that kid can do nothing for you financially...

By the time they're in college, they're going to be able to do a lot for you financially.

And you want to build that relationship as soon as you can.

I mean, I think the agents would also say, like, we're trying to get in there because if we're not in there, they're going to be getting bad advice from people that don't know what they're doing.

But people are trying to form relationships with younger and younger athletes.

I think that's right.

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