1. New Legislation Reminders (see handout/check email). Please email preferred dates/times for required pre-season Compliance/ Academics meeting to Kay by July 8^th.  Preseason Head Coach meeting request will be sent to the Head Coach.

Link to New Legislation:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A7fbb443d-6963-433a-8930-cdc66441f856
 

2. Camp Reminders

• Camps and clinics must be submitted through ARMS request form and approved by compliance before a camps and clinics may be held.
• A representative of an institution's athletics interests may not pay a prospective student­ athlete's expenses to attend a member institution's sports camp or clinic.
• All sports camps and clinics must be open to any and all entrants, and enrollment may only be limited based on age, grade level, gender and/or number of participants.
• Participants in Camps or Clinics who were high school, prep school, or two-year college athletics award winners may not be given free or reduced camp admission.
• Student-athletes cannot be employed in summer campus until they have completed the required paperwork on ARMS. Compensation must be commensurate with the regularly accepted rates for camp counselors with similar qualification and responsibilities.
• A student-athlete, at the student-athlete's own expense, may not operate a concession to sell items related to or associated with his or her institution's camp to campers or others in attendance because such an arrangement would be considered an extra benefit. However, the institution may employ the student-athlete at a reasonable rate to perform such services for the camp.
• In sports other than basketball and football, recruiting conversations during an institutional camp or clinic (including a camp or clinic that involves only individuals who are not yet prospective student-athletes) are not permitted between an institution's coach and a participating individual before August 1 at the beginning of the individual's junior year in high school.
• In sports other than women's basketball an institution's coach may arrange and conduct a campus tour during the institution's camp or clinic, provided the format of the tour has been approved by an institutional authority outside the athletics department (e.g., admissions office).
• High School, Preparatory-School, Two-Year College Coaches or Other Individuals Involved with Prospective Student-Athletes
• High School, Preparatory-School, Two-Year College Coaches or Other Individuals involved with Prospective Student-Athletes may be employed as a camp counselor, provided:
  • Compensation is commensurate with the going rate for camp counselors of like teaching ability and camp experience and
  • The individual is not paid on the basis of the value he or she may have for the employer because of his or her reputation or contact with prospective student­-athletes.
  • In the sports of basketball and football, it is not permissible to employ (either on a salaried or a volunteer basis) a speaker in any basketball/football camp or clinic who is involved in coaching prospective student-athletes or is associated with a prospective student- athlete as a result of the prospective student-athlete's participation in basketball/football.
  • In the sport of basketball and football an individual associated with a recruited prospect may not be employed to work at a camp or clinic owned by ETSU or one of its coaches until that specific recruited prospect enrolls at another NCAA institution or has exhausted eligibility. 

3. NO EXTRA BENEFITS!!!!!

Remember no extra benefits may be provided to a student-athlete at anytime by a coach or staff member or institutional representative of athletics interests
Extra benefits legislation continues after graduation and eligibility expires
If you are unsure what an extra benefit is, ALWAYS ASK compliance before Acting!!
 
 

4. NCAA Enforcement Case: Maryland Basketball

 
The University of Maryland and the NCAA enforcement staff agreed that the men's basketball program exceeded the number of permissible countable coaches, while the women's basketball staff utilized impermissible recruiting aids with prospects, according to a negotiated resolution agreement approved by a Division I Committee on Infractions panel.
 
The men's basketball program exceeded the number of allowable coaches when the director of player personnel, who is now an assistant coach, coached a student-athlete on his shooting form 10 times during a three-month period. The assistant coach reported that he knew coaching the student-athlete was a violation and that he offered the sessions without informing the coaching staff. He also delivered oral scouting reports to the men's basketball team eight times at the direction of the head men's basketball coach. Both the assistant coach and the head coach understood the assistant coach in his role as director of player personnel could not coach during practices but did not realize film room presentations were impermissible.

Maryland and the enforcement staff agreed that the women's basketball staff used recruiting booklets with personalized covers for 17 prospects on their unofficial visits. The head coach said she did not correctly understand the rules about what could be reviewed in person during visits. Additionally, an assistant coach sent 150 personalized tangible items to prospects, contrary to NCAA rules.
 
Maryland and the enforcement staff agreed to Level II-Standard penalties for the assistant coach and Level II-Mitigated penalties for the school. Those penalties, approved by the Committee on Infractions, are detailed below:
 

• A two-year show-cause order for the assistant coach. During that period, he must attend two NCAA Regional Rules Seminars. Because the university suspended the assistant coach from 15 practices and six games during the 2018-19 season, his athletically related duties are not restricted during the show-cause period.
• Reduction of men's basketball countable athletically related activities by one hour per week during the off-season and a reduction by two hours per week in-season (self-imposed by the university).
• The compliance office must attend at least one men's basketball practice per week, travel to at least four regular-season away games and all postseason games, attend at least nine men's basketball film review sessions and provide additional education (self-imposed by the university).
• Letter of reprimand issued to the head men's basketball coach by the university (self-imposed by the university).
• Reduction in the number of women's basketball official visits by three visits per year from 2018-19 through 2020-21 (self-imposed by the university).
• Reduction of one women's basketball scholarship from 2018-19 through 2020-21 (self­ imposed by the university).
• Prohibition on distributing women's basketball recruiting materials for one week each month during the 2018-19 year (self-imposed by the university).
• One year of probation and a $5,000 fine.

 

V. Recruiting Reminders

• If you have remaining Contacts/Evals/Phone logs to enter for the academic year, please make sure to have those submitted by the end of June. 
• Contacts and evaluations - must be logged in ARMS by the 7^th of each month. If a team does not log any contacts or evaluations for the year, your team may be audited. 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 7^th of each month
• Unofficial visits -Must be logged in ARMS within 5 business days after the visit occurred.
• Official visits -Must be submitted at least 7 business days before the visit and must be approved by compliance before the PSA may come to campus. Please remember the PSA and the Student Host must both sign acknowledgments.