NFLPA Committee To Meet With Exec Dir Search Firms Next Week
By Liz Mullen & Daniel Kaplan, Staff Writers, SportsBusiness Journal
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The search committee formed by the NFLPA to find a successor to late Exec Dir Gene Upshaw will meet with representatives of five different executive search firms in the union’s DC offices on Tuesday, sources said. The winning search firm is expected to identify and vet potential candidates for the NFLPA’s top job and then narrow the field of candidates down to a reasonable number to be presented to the NFLPA’s board of player reps meeting in Maui next March. The NFLPA Executive Director is elected by a vote of the 32 player reps. “I have no comment on the search process, any of the search firms or any of the candidates,” NFLPA Acting Exec Dir Richard Berthelsen said. Meanwhile the one potential candidate who has officially stated he is running for the job, former Cardinals and Browns LB and former NFLPA player rep Jamir Miller, sent out an e-mail to all the current player reps Wednesday titled, “What the NFLPA really faces in the upcoming CBA negotiations, and why Troy Vincent does not deserve to be considered for the executive director’s position.” “The owners have made it clear they are not prepared to maintain (let alone sweeten) the last deal worked out with the union,” Miller wrote in the letter, obtained by SportsBusiness Journal. “It is entirely possible that they will seek to break the union, and return the sport to the long-gone days when the owners ruled absolutely.”
MILLER ATTACKS VINCENT: In the letter, Miller calls former NFLPA President Vincent “the candidate who is pushing hardest for the job, though he hasn’t admitted it.” Miller also questioned Vincent’s public statements that he does not know why Upshaw cut off communications with him five months prior to his death and Vincent’s denials that he was part of any attempted coup against Upshaw or the source of a March 19 Yahoo Sports story stating he expected to be named assistant executive director of the NFLPA. “The kind of leader we need would not, to quote Vincent, 'undermine someone who was a mentor to me,' and claim to have no clue as to why Gene abruptly ended their relationship. ... You might be surprised that I’m taking on Troy Vincent in such direct fashion, but this is not the time to play games. The future of our union is at stake, and all our futures with it.” Vincent did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
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