administrators to let her son attend summer school and then re-apply. It worked; he got in. Four years later, at 16, he was recruited by Cornell University, where playing football opened up a new world.
McMillan fell in love with sports and researched the business side. “There was this whole sports agent phenomena and salaries started to go through the roof, and I thought, ‘It would be very interesting to work at a sports agency,'” he says. So he went through a list of Cornell graduates, found those who were in the sports representation business and fired off letters. Athletes and Artists gave him a summer internship. He did so well that they invited him back the following summer for pay.
As McMillan continued his studies-majoring in negotiations and collective bargaining at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations-his future became clearer.