Jack Bechta is the head honcho at JB Sports (Jack Bechta and Associates).  Jack has been negotiating deals for professional football players since the early 1990s, and still boasts a respectable client roster to this day.  In his time as an NFLPA Certified Advisor, Jack has negotiated over 200 contracts for his players.  The man has seen a lot in his time, and has decided to give some of his knowledge away with his column at The National Football Post.  His most recent article will make many peoples’ jaws drop, but it is an excellent foray into the world of sports agency, directly from someone who has been in the business of representing athlete for a very long time.

His latest piece

Those of you who have been following this site for a while know that we have gone through various contributors during the existence of SportsAgentBlog.com.  One of our original contributors was a man named Matthew Vuckovich.  He was one in charge of our expanding Interview with the Agent section and was so passionate about breaking into this industry that he convinced me, in April 2007, to join up and start a sports agency.  Dynasty Athlete Representation was formed with co-founders, myself and Matthew, and initially, we had read through the entire NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement because we thought that we had a shot at signing one of his friends who played professional hockey.  It did not quite work out like that, but soon we were representing a few bowlers and Kyle Dison, a former baseball player, who at the time, was looking for another chance to show affiliated baseball that he still had it.

Vuckovich and I did not always see eye to eye on a lot of issues, and decided to part ways in February 2008.  I retained the rights to Dynasty, and Matthew went on to form his own agency, Xclusive Sports Management (XSM).  Kyle Dison joined him, and the two created an agency solely dedicated to representing baseball players.  Kyle is a Managing Partner at XSM.

Yesterday, Matthew had an interview with the website, Jimmy Scott’s High & Tight.