(S25) - PT 1 - Opening Statements

[deadlunatic]

I think player agent rules should either be loosened or remove the option entirely. As it sits, there is no real reason to be an agent, considering it near impossible to be one. You have to pay a crazy high amount of money to even be one, also you can't have an active player while doing it, which removes a lot of interest for a lot of people. But if it were somehow a way for people to make money, during a season they wanted to sit out of, as far as having an active player, then it could be a way to keep someone involved in the league. 

Some players do not want to have to negotiate their own contracts, some players truly do not know what they should or should not be asking for. If there were a knowledgeable agent, who for a small fee would get a better contract for those players, I don't see how this would hurt the league. Plus some people really enjoy that side of what the league offers. As it stands they have only their own contracts they can take care of. 

Either way, the rules need to change. If you are going to make it possible, then just remove the ability to be an agent completely. That way people can't argue about them existing, but not actually a usable feature of the league. 

I vote for changing the rules enough to make it possible to be an agent if one desires to do that.