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The Mental Advantage Podcast Episode 10 Excerpt w/ James "IV" Williams - Scouts are Middlemen

Name: The Mental Advantage Podcast Episode 10 Excerpt w/ James "IV" Williams - Scouts are Middlemen
Uploaded: 2021-07-19T12:00:09+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Bryn Drescher
Description: In this excerpt from The Mental Advantage Podcast, host Bryn Drescher interviews James "IV" Williams, a scout working for an independent recruiting…

19 Jul 2021 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from The Mental Advantage Podcast, host Bryn Drescher interviews James "IV" Williams, a scout working for an independent recruiting agency. Williams explains that, unlike college coaches who are limited to specific contact windows, independent scouts have broad autonomy to reach out directly to high‑school players, their parents, and even discuss grades and extracurricular activities. He notes that while some events may impose restrictions on talking to athletes, the primary function of these scouting agencies is to act as middlemen, facilitating communication and information flow between players and college programs during periods when coaches cannot legally contact prospects.

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If you were contracted by the team, are you bound by the same rules or are you not because you're an independent agency and you can go up to like, you know, Mikey Williams right now and you can talk to him even if you're not at college, you know, you don't have to do the whole from afar even though that's your preference.
Right. I have complete autonomy to talk to anybody pretty much unless like, so sometimes events will say, hey, don't talk to the kids. That's different. But for the most part, that's, That's kind of the— that's kind of why the business actually exists, because there are a lot of people who do what I do. Um, it exists for the reason that coaches only have certain times of the year where they can actually talk to players. And so we're the middlemen, so to speak. So we're allowed to go talk to players, talk to parents, find out about grades, or, you know, just whatever the case may be, what they're doing, you know, what their extracurriculars are, you know, just to find out about