I Recently I spoke with a very ambitious man of valor named Jerren Pierce. Pierce and his partner recently started their own sporting entity that specializes in exposing High School Athletes to College Recruits. According to Just Maximizing Potential In addition to posting information about the athlete including GPAs, statistics, and highlight videos, the website will mainly serve as a social networking site for athletes, coaches, and recruiters.
1) What made you start this business?
Just Maximizing Potential was started because of the passion I have for high school student athletes. I feel that sometimes when playing on the high school level you do not get the exposure you deserve to get at times to colleges. I was one of those players so that is why I started JMP.
2) How did you get involved in Sports, and where does the passion come from?
I got involved in sports from a young age; I was one of those kids that always dreamed about playing professionally growing up. Growing up I pretty much played every sport that there was to play.
3) Exactly how does your organization help High School Athletes gain exposure?
JMP serves basically as a middleman to help reach out to colleges for student athletes. On the website justmp.com student athletes can get profiles and are able to edit their profile the ways they want to by: adding videos, pictures, newspaper articles and even blogging.
We also take it another step by adding different events that will help the student athletes such as: combines (various sports), camps, tournaments and All Star games (in future). From these events we are able to add their numbers to their profiles to make their profiles accurate for colleges to view.
We also take it another step by sending out all their information to colleges across the country. If any coaches have any questions about certain student athletes we are able to direct them appropriately.
4) How does your organization help athletes as they progress on to the next level?
One way we help these student athletes progress is by offering sports performance. This where the student athletes can train to get stronger and faster in order to perform on that level.
5) What is your favorite Football team, why does Football matter?
For college I like Oregon; I am not a bandwagon person either. I have liked them since Akli Smith and Joey Harrington were QBs at the school. I like them because they are not afraid of being who they are; they are not normal. Football to me matters because it was one of the sports I fell in love with. It is a great game.
6) How much, if any has the world of sports changed since you first fell in love with it?
Nothing but the athletes has really changed. Everyone is faster and stronger now so it so much more competitive in any sport.
7) What do you think about Sports Agents?
If they do the correct job I think they are great as long as the stay ethical in their practices.
8) Do you think the NCAA ruling against agents is to protect their pockets, or do you believe that they are genuinely concerned about the player’s future?
Being on a NCAA committee while in college I know what the thought patterns are. They are genuinely concerned about the player’s future. When these players are coming out of college they are very young still and when it involves money; it is like a child with candy. NCAA is doing a great job in how they are handling this.
9) Do you think that colleges, and universities should pay their student athletes?
The only answer to that is if you pay one person you have to pay everyone. It will change the meaning of college sports if this occurs. There will be so many lawsuits that will occur from this if this was to occur. You also have to think of a formula to pay every student athlete that plays so when thinking outside the box: you have approximately 60 scholarship football players and about 40 more players. Women’s basketball has about 12 scholarships and about 5 more players. What would be the formula to pay the players the same amount? If you had the power to change one rule in Football what would it
be? Why?
Nothing I think it is great the way it is.
In the words of Jerren Pierce “When I was coming out of high school, we didn’t have this type of opportunity,” says Pierce. “I was a player with potential but just didn’t get recruited. Just Maximizing Potential will give student-athletes across the country the opportunity to showcase their abilities on our website.
Here is a video link: http://bit.ly/riFKct
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