Sports Agent Corner: What Draft Week Is Like for a Sports Agent

April 21, 2009 By 1 Comment

Gary Glick, sports agent - what draft week is like for a sports agentEditor’s Note: Welcome to the latest edition of the Sports Agents Corner, our regular feature here at MSF in which we run through a list of hot topics with Dallas-based sports agent Gary Glick of Synergy Sports, Inc.  The Sports Agent Corner has been on hiatus for a few weeks (my fault, not Gary’s), but Gary has been nice enough to take a quick breather during draft week to answer a few questions.

Go to the Sports Agent Corner page to view past editions, and feel free to send an email to the Sports Agent Corner if there is a specific question you would like Gary to address in future weeks. You can also respond in the comments section and I’ll be sure that Gary sees your responses.)

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MSF: What players are you representing this year in the 2009 NFL Draft?

Gary Glick: Kirby Freeman (QB); Joe Ganz (QB); Dexton Fields (WR); Aubrey Bell (WR); Thomas White (WR); Braxton Kelly (LB); Andrew Mooney (TE/FB); Jake Ratcliff (DE/LB); Dan Titchener (P); Cory Long (K)

MSF: Describe what the week leading up to the draft is like?

Gary Glick: It’s VERY hectic. There is a great deal of last-minute marketing and maneuvering as well as speaking to the teams about draft day contact information. Also talking to the players to keep up their confidence as well as speaking with the press. The Dallas Morning News (Todd Archer) did a nice article on Thomas White after his workout with the Cowboys and the press from the various cities in the colleges where the players attended have draft questions.

MSF: How will you spend your Saturday and Sunday this weekend?

Gary Glick: Saturday is more laid back than Sunday. I will be manning the phones and watching the draft somewhere other than the office.

On Sunday, I will start with a mass e-mail to all of the teams again reminding them of them of my players. I will be at the office monitoring the draft and making contact with whoever I can with the teams. The “fun” starts IMMEDIATELY after the last pick in the draft. For players who are not drafted, it is the time to try and have them signed as Free Agents. We have a team of people making calls to every contact we have in the league.

MSF: What do you find yourself doing more: managing the expectations of players who think they will be drafted higher than they probably will, or pumping up guys who think they have no chance to get picked — but who might?

Gary Glick: A little of both but probably the focus is on calming nerves and keeping the guys pumped up. Even if they are not immediately signed, there is always the chance.

MSF: For all of the fans who do not understand it, describe a little more about what happens after the last pick of the second day. What is the ensuing scramble to get your undrafted players into camps like?.

Gary Glick: Most of the Undrafted Rookie Free Agents (those players not drafted) are signed within 2-3 hours after the draft. It is imperative that we start calling at the end of the 7th round and make as many calls and as quickly as possible to all of the NFL contacts we have. I usually have 2 phones going at the same time! I have never seen so many calls being made so quickly.

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Sports Agent Corner: Gary Glick on Colt McCoy Staying at Texas and Mike Sherman

October 24, 2008 By 2 Comments
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gary glickEditor’s Note: Welcome to the second edition of the Sports Agents Corner. Each week, we run through a list of hot topics with Dallas-based sports agent Gary Glick of Synergy Sports, Inc.

Go to the Sports Agent Corner page to view past editions, and feel free to send an email to the Sports Agent Corner if there is a specific question you would like Gary to address in future weeks.)

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Midwest Sports Fans: From a scout’s perspective, projecting forward with respect to his potential NFL career, how good of an overall on- and off-field prospect is Colt McCoy?

Gary Glick: Honestly, I’m not as familiar with Colt McCoy as I should be because last year, I simply did not see him as that good of a QB. In fact, I have spoken with NFL Scouts who thought that Stephen McGee (Texas A&M) was a better Pro Prospect. Colt McCoy has really turned it around this year and looks to be not only a versatile QB who can pass and run the ball, he looks to be the leader of the team on Offense. From those persons with whom I’ve spoken, he seems to be a sincere player who is strong in his beliefs and convictions. I will be curious to watch the scouting reports and to see how far he moves up.

MSF: Colt McCoy recently stated that he is planning to return for his senior season. What are your thoughts on his decision, and players leaving school early in general?

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Sports Agent Corner | Gary Glick on Maurice Purify and the Cincinnati Bengals

October 15, 2008 By 1 Comment
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(Admin Note: This is the first in a new periodic series to be featured here at Midwest Sports Fans: the Sports Agent Corner. Gary Glick, President and founder of the Dallas-based sports agency Synergy Sports Inc., will be our regular guest. Mr. Glick has worked recently with former Big 12 standouts Maurice Purify, Marcellus Rivers, and Dwayne Blakely.)

Midwest Sports Fans: One of your players is Maurice Purify of the Cincinnati Bengals, who has found his share of trouble. You have said that too big a deal has been made out of his off-field issues. How so?

gary glick agent synergy sportsGary Glick: Maurice Purify transferred to Nebraska at a rough time in his life and although I make no excuses for a player’s behavior, Mo had 4 close relatives pass away during that time. He was accosted by a bouncer at a club and got into a fight and was charged with assault. During his probation, he received a DUI and then subsequently during a house party, he and his uncle (a school counselor from Missouri) were watching an ESPN special in the basement of a friend’s house when the police burst in and asked people to leave. The people in the basement (including Mo) did not hear the request and were issued citations (even his uncle). The citation constituted a violation of his probation.

When looked at as a whole, his “offenses” do not appear that egregious and surely do not constitute the seeming “black balling” he received on Draft day.

For those who read this, try to keep in mind that Maurice Purify was a college kid and try to remember the things you did in college, whether you got caught or not.

I have gotten to know him and have seen a humble guy that is incredible with fans and with children. To actually know Maurice Purify is to realize that he is not this player with ridiculous “off the field issues” but a good guy that wants to succeed and has the ability to succeed with the Cincinnati Bengals and in the NFL.

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