The American Football Coaches Association, whose 11,000 members coach players from high school to the NFL, has tapped Capitol Counsel to give the profession a broad and unified voice as the debate in Washington plays out over the coming years.
While there’s near-unanimous agreement among stakeholders about the need to address the issues Bohl’s organization plans on raising with lawmakers with Capitol Counsel’s help, the urgency of doing so is something that coaches feel they’re better suited to convey to lawmakers than representatives from the NCAA or individual athletic conferences. “We live it every day, and we have some answers,” he told PI. “We need to come up with a message of clarity on how we can make this work for the betterment of football.”
The Capitol Counsel team working on the account includes David Jones, David Bridges, Nick Bouknight, John Martin, Luke Hatzis, George Sifakis, Monique Frazier, Jeff Carroll and Shannon Finley.
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