Gary Uberstine, of Premier Sports & Entertainment, and Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP have combined to create a coaching agency, Premier Stinson Sports. Collectively both firms represent more than 75 professional and collegiate coaches. PSS is a full-service sports management firm dedicated exclusively to serving elite-level coaches. The PSS group has years of successful, specialized experience in handling virtually every issue professional and collegiate coaches encounter during their careers. We have negotiated hundreds of contracts for professional and collegiate coaches. Put this experience to work for you and become a valuable part of a powerful network of coaches and industry contacts.
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RECENT NEWS:

Agent Assesses Up-and-Coming Assistants

The las few weeks, in conjunction with our Power Rankings, I've done posts with AFC South players sharing their lists. I wanted to do the same this week, but as we look at the NFL's up-and-coming assistant coaches, there was no player with the frame of reference to offer a ballot. So I turned to agent Bob Lattinville. His firm, Premier Stinson Sports, represents over 100 college and professinoal coaches in football, men's and women's basketball and baseball. (We'll unveil our list at about 1 p.m. ET.)

Paul Kuharsky: Agent Lattinville Assesses Up-and-Coming Assistants (PDF/98.2KB)

NCAA Football Coaches Salary Database

Premier Stinson Sports (PSS) and Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP collaborate with USA TODAY and the National Sports Law Institute in the collection and analysis of employment contracts for NCAA Division I college coaches and athletics directors. The partnership produces a database – parts of which are published online and in print by USA TODAY – that PSS and Stinson use to provide its clients with the most current and comprehensive information of its kind available in the industry. READ FULL ARTICLE…

Joanne McCallie: Continuing Duke’s Excellence (PDF/1.4MB)
The Use of Search Firms in the Hiring Process (via WashingtonPost.com)
Kansas State Gives Deb Patterson New Contract (via ESPN.com)

PSS offers the following coordinated and complete coaching services:

• Contract procurement, including resume and program book drafting, analysis of the coaching market and profiles of decision makers at the collegiate and professional levels of football, basketball and baseball
• Contract negotiation, including maintaining and updating an extensive database of salary and employment information for collegiate and professional coaches
• Careful and continuous analysis of the coaching marketplace which allows us to quickly and accurately measure the prospective value of opportunities
• Extensive interview and media preparation
• Corporate entity formation designed to reduce individual liability and to secure and enhance retirement and tax benefits
• Expert consultation on your sport's ever-changing administrative rules and guidelines, such as the NCAA Bylaws and applicable anti-tampering policies
• Benefits and deferred compensation consultation that informs you of the scope, prevalence and effectiveness of various retirement options to maximize your retirement benefits for a secure retirement
• Collateral income generation via product endorsements, speaking engagements and summer camp consultation
• Marketing and public relations services
• Career transition services, including broadcast media

Because PSS is experienced in each of these services, coaches are assured that their priorities are identified and goals are achieved.