Richmond Flowers
Richmond Flowers III has launched an agency that counts about 30 NFL coaches as clients, including Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh and New York Jets offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates.
The new firm, called Collective Sports Advisors, will be based in Walnut Creek in Northern California.
Flowers had been hired by CSE Talent to develop a football coaches representation practice last year, but he said that was a one-year deal with a mutual option to continue. Flowers said he decided to opt out of the agreement because he wanted to build his own business, and said the parting was amicable.
Danny Martoe, CSE Talent president, declined to comment.
Flowers is a former NFL player and a former NFL coach. He played wide receiver at Duke and was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2001. He played for the Jaguars and Dallas Cowboys before getting a job as an assistant offensive coach with the Washington Redskins. He was also an offensive assistant for the 49ers and worked with coaches who are now clients.
Other clients include 49ers quarterbacks coach Rich Scangarello, Cowboys defensive backs coach Greg Jackson and Texans defensive line coach Anthony Weaver, as well as several college football coaches who Flowers declined to name.
Flowers comes from a celebrated family that was featured in a Sports Illustrated story written by the late William Nack headlined “In the Name of the Father.” Flowers’ father, Richmond Flowers Jr., was a wide receiver at Tennessee and played safety in the NFL for five years, after being selected in the second round by the Cowboys. His grandfather, Richmond Flowers Sr., was Alabama attorney general and gained fame for fighting racial segregation.
