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As a Representative of Athletics Interests, What Can You Do? YOU CAN
YOU CAN provide transportation to your home for a student-athlete who will be receiving an occasional meal there.
YOU CAN provide a summer job to a student-athlete as long as it is at a normal rate of pay for that position and the student-athlete is paid for work actually performed, but remember to check with the compliance office at the institution before doing so.
YOU CAN make a financial donation to a high school athletics program in your locale provided:
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You make the donation of your own accord,• Your donation is distributed through the normal channels established by the high school, and
• Your donation is not earmarked for a specific prospect.
As a Representative of Athletics Interests, What You Cannot Do?
YOU CANNOT
become directly or indirectly involved in arranging for a prospect, or the prospect's relatives or friends, to receive money or financial aid of any kind.YOU CANNOT
provide any "extra benefits" to or for a prospect, or the prospect's relatives or friends, without first checking with that institution's Athletic Compliance Office.YOU CANNOT
write, telephone, or contact in person a prospect or the prospect's family (on or off campus). If a coach is accompanied by a prospect on campus, in the community or at the airport, do not approach the coach and prospect. If a prospect approaches you off campus regarding an institution's athletic program, explain that NCAA rules do not permit you to discuss the program. Suggest that the prospect contact the institution's athletics department for information.YOU CANNOT
entertain high school, prep school, or two-year college coaches at any location.YOU CANNOT
contact the prospect's coach, principal, or counselor for evaluating the prospect. You are not permitted to videotape games or pick up films or transcripts from the prospect's educational institution.Institutional staff members or representatives of athletics interests may not directly or indirectly provide, arrange for the provision of, or offer any financial aid or other benefits to a prospect (or the prospect's relatives, guardian or friends) other than expressly permitted by NCAA regulations. This shall apply regardless of whether similar financial aid benefits or arrangements are available to prospective students in general.
Specifically prohibited items include, but are not limited to:
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Arranging employment for a prospect's relatives;• Give a gift of clothing or equipment;
• Co-signing of a loan;
• Providing a loan to a prospect's relatives or friends;
• Giving cash or like items;
• Giving any tangible items, including merchandise;
• Giving free or reduced-cost services, rentals or purchases of any type;
• Giving free or reduced-cost housing;
• Allowing use of an institution's athletics equipment (e.g., for a high school all-star game); or
• Sponsorship of or arrangement for awards banquets for high school, preparatory school or two-year college athletes by an institution, its athletics representatives, or its alumni groups or booster groups.
Alumni Organizations
Prospective student-athletes may attend luncheons or dinners in their immediate locale that are sponsored by bona fide alumni organizations of an institution. These alumni organizations must meet specific criteria to be considered as such. Please check with the institution's compliance office for more specific information.
Five Basic Rules to Remember
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Do not do anything for a prospective student-athlete or an enrolled student-athlete without specific permission from the institution's athletics department.•
Only coaches and athletic department staff members may be involved in the recruiting process. Alumni, friends and other athletics representatives who are not employed by the institution may not contact a prospect (or his/her family or guardian) via written correspondence, telephone, or in-person (either on or off campus) for the purpose of soliciting their participation in the athletic program.•
A prospective student-athlete remains a prospective student-athlete until he/she enrolls (e.g., begins classes) full-time at an institution, or until he/she begins official team practice immediately prior to the start of classes. Even if the prospect signs a National Letter of Intent or financial aid agreement to attend an institution, he/she remains a prospect until one of the above occurs.•
Enrolled student-athlete risks losing his/her athletics eligibility if he/she accepts any benefit based on his/her status as an athlete or because of his/her athletics skill, or a benefit not generally afforded to other students.•
NCAA rules applicable to enrolled student-athletes are not only applicable during the academic year, but they are also applicable during the summer months. Enrolled studentathletes are bound by NCAA rules until the end of the academic year in which their athletics eligibility is completed.Possible Penalties for Improper Actions
There are many penalties the NCAA may impose upon a student-athlete (prospective or enrolled), an institution, a coach or a representative of athletics interest. Some of those penalties include,
• Loss of eligibility of an enrolled student-athlete;
• Having to sit out of competition for a limited period of time (enrolled student-athletes);
• Forfeiture of competitions;
• Prohibiting a coach from recruiting off-campus for a period of time;
• Institutional fines;
• Suspension of a coach for one or more competitions;
• Reduction in the number of scholarships an institution may award in a sport(s);
• Reduction in the number of expense-paid recruiting visits that an institution may provide;
• Prohibiting a team from participating in postseason competition;
• Institutional probation, or
• Disassociation of relations with a representative of athletics interests.
