The track record for new sports leagues is hit-or-miss. A few, like the American Football League, make it. Most – recall, if you can, the United States Football League or the XFL – don’t.
Sports super-agent Don Yee, a 1987 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, thinks he has an idea that can beat the odds.
Yee, a partner at Los Angeles-based management and consulting firm Yee & Dubin Sports Inc., intends to launch Pacific Pro Football in the summer of 2018. Pac Pro, as they call it, aims to be a developmental league for the NFL and an alternative to the college ranks. Players will be less than three years removed from high school (and thus not eligible for the pro draft) and, very much unlike college, will be paid an average salary of $50,000. Pac Pro’s organizers, who also include former New York Giants and Denver Broncos receiver Ed McCaffrey and Fox Sports executive Jeff Husvar, hope to field four teams in Southern California.
