The NCAA amended its agent certification requirements on Monday after backlash regarding its bachelor's degree requirement for all prospective agents.
Popularly dubbed the "Rich Paul Rule" after Klutch Sports Group agent Rich Paul, the NCAA instituted a policy last week that required all agents must meet certain prerequisites–including having a bachelor's degree–to serve as an agent. Paul and others criticized the new rule, claiming its criteria disadvantages certain prospective agents.
"The harmful consequences of this decision will ricochet onto others who are trying to break in. NCAA executives are once again preventing young people from less prestigious backgrounds, and often people of color, from working in the system they continue to control," Paul said in an op-ed for The Athletic on Monday.