• CARA:
  • ALL SPORTS: CARA logs are due by the 7th of each month on ARMS.
• Recruiting Reminders: 
  • Volunteer Coaches cannot recruit
  • All Contacts and Evaluations must be logged in ARMS by the 7th of each month. Head Coaches remember you are responsible if your assistant coaches do not accurately log recruiting contacts/evals/unofficial/official visits. 
  • Football: Remember to log phone calls by the 7th of each month.
• December Quiet and Dead Periods:
  • Football:
    • Quiet Period- December 15
    • Dead Period- December 16-31
  • Baseball:
    • Quiet Period- December 1-31
  • Men's Basketball:
    • Dead Period- December 24-26
  • Women's Basketball:
    • Dead Period- December 24-26
  • Track/XC:
    • Dead Period- December 9-31
  • Men's Golf:
    • Quiet Period- December 2-8, 13-22
    • Dead Period- December 1, 9-12, 23-31
  • Volleyball:
    • Quiet Period- December 1-31
  • Softball:
    • Quiet Period- December 1-3, 8-31
    • Dead Period- December 4-7
  • Men's Soccer:
    • Quiet Period- December 23-25
    • Dead Period- December 13-15
  • Women's Soccer:
    • Dead Period- December 15-31
• NCAA Required Compliance Training:
  • As part of ETSU’s NCAA probation, we are required to have more compliance trainings with the coaching staffs. Coaching staffs and team specific support staff are required to attend four of the seven in person meetings and head coaches must also attend the four head coaches meetings. Attendance will be taken and is required to be submitted to the NCAA. The schedule for 2019-2020 is as follows:

• 16.01.1 Eligibility Effect of Violation. [A] A student-athlete shall not receive any extra benefit. Receipt by a student-athlete of an award, benefit or expense allowance not authorized by NCAA legislation renders the student-athlete ineligible for athletics competition in the sport for which the improper award, benefit or expense was received. If the student-athlete receives an extra benefit not authorized by NCAA legislation, the individual is ineligible in all sports. 
  • 16.01.1.1 Restitution for Receipt of Impermissible Benefits. [A] Unless otherwise noted, for violations of Bylaw 16 in which the value of the benefit is $200 or less, the eligibility of the student-athlete shall not be affected conditioned upon the student-athlete repaying the value of the benefit to a charity of his or her choice. The student-athlete, however, shall remain ineligible from the time the institution has knowledge of receipt of the impermissible benefit until the student-athlete repays the benefit. For violations of Bylaw 16 in which there is no monetary value to the benefit, violations shall be considered institutional violations per Constitution 2.8.1; however, such violations shall not affect the student-athlete's eligibility. (Adopted: 11/1/01, Revised: 8/5/04, 1/19/18) 
• 16.02.3 Extra Benefit. [A] An extra benefit is any special arrangement by an institutional employee or representative of the institution's athletics interests to provide a student-athlete or the student-athlete family member or friend a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. Receipt of a benefit by student-athletes or their family members or friends is not a violation of NCAA legislation if it is demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institution's students or their family members or friends or to a particular segment of the student body (e.g., international students, minority students) determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability. (Revised: 1/10/91, 1/19/13 effective 8/1/13) 

Preseason Exhibitions and Preseason Practice Scrimmages (I)

Division: I
Date Published: November 12, 2019
Item Ref:  

Educational Column:

NCAA Division I member institutions should note that pursuant to NCAA Bylaw 12.8.3.1.4, a student-athlete in the sports of basketball, field hockey, women’s lacrosse, soccer, and women’s volleyball may compete in preseason exhibition contests and preseason practice scrimmages without using a season of competition, provided the student-athlete is otherwise eligible to represent the institution in outside competition.  Sports other than basketball, field hockey, women’s lacrosse, soccer, and women’s volleyball do not have legislated exceptions in Bylaw 17 that permit preseason exhibition contests and preseason practice scrimmages to occur prior to the first permissible date of competition or contest.  Therefore, Bylaw 12.8.3.1.4 does not apply to sports other than basketball, field hockey, women’s lacrosse, soccer, and women’s volleyball, regardless of whether competition in which they participate is classified as a scrimmage or exhibition.

For example, a basketball student-athlete is permitted to participate in a preseason exhibition contest against a non-NCAA Division I four-year collegiate institution without using a season of competition.  Conversely, an ice hockey student-athlete is charged with a season of competition if he or she represents the institution in a contest against outside competition that is classified as a scrimmage or exhibition contest.

[References: NCAA Division I Bylaws 12.8.3.1.4 (preseason exhibitions/preseason practice scrimmages), 17.02.3 (contest, countable, institutional), 17.02.4 (contest, countable, individual student-athlete), 17.02.6 (date of competition, countable, institutional) 17.02.7 (date of competition, countable, individual student-athlete), 17.02.8 (intercollegiate competition), 17.02.9 (outside competition) 17.3.3.1 (exceptions), 17.8.3.1 (exception -- scrimmage/exhibition games), 17.14.3.1 (exception – scrimmages/exhibition games – women’s lacrosse), 17.19.5.1 (exception -- scrimmage/exhibition games), and 17.25.3.1 (exception – scrimmage/exhibition contest)]