'Street agents' exploiting athletes in NIL deals, coaches warn

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AS CASH HAS flooded college and high school athletic recruiting through NIL deals and direct payments from schools, coaches and other observers say they see a growing need to regulate the middlemen who carve out a profit by putting themselves between the money and the athlete.

So-called "street agents," who typically aren't certified agents or even attorneys, recruit players around the edges of the game and promise to represent them in pursuit of college scholarships or deals for their name, image and likeness.

Street agents existed under the table in the pre-NIL era, but their prevalence, and the dollar amounts involved, have grown…