OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE HUSKIE ATHLETIC COMPLIANCE OFFICE
THE COMPLIANCE CONSCIENCE
ISSUE 28
SEPTEMBER 2012
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RAPID REFERENCE: SEPTEMBER RECRUITING
COMPLIANCE: DID YOU KNOW?
Baseball September 1‐13: Quiet Period September 14‐30: Contact Period Men’s Basketball September 1‐8: Quiet Period September 9‐30 Contact Period Women’s Basketball September 1‐15: Quiet Period September 16‐30: Contact Period Cross Country/Track and Field September 1‐30: Contact Period Football September 1‐30: Evaluation Period Softball September 1‐30: Contact Period Volleyball September 1‐30: Contact Period RECRUITING PERIODS:
NLI—Early Signing Period Penalties Prospective student‐athletes who will participate in football are prohibited from signing an NLI during the early signing period. A student who signs an NLI during the early period in a sport other than football will be ineligible for practice and competition in football during the first year of enrollment at an NLI member institution and shall forfeit one season of competition in football. In circumstances where a prospective student‐athlete’s primary sport is not football, but the student anticipates participating in football, the prospective student‐athlete should delay signing an NLI until either the football signing period or during the regular signing period for all other sports. QUESTION OF THE MONTH
COMPLIANCE ? OF THE MONTH
Each month, the first person in the athletic Contact Period ‐ Permissible for authorized department to answer the Compliance
athletic department staff members to make Question of the Month, will be rewarded in‐person, off‐campus recruiting contacts and with a prize. evaluations.
Evaluation
Period ‐ Permissible for What event(s) lift the authorized athletics department staff to be involved in off‐campus activities to assess restriction on when an institution (and its coaches) academic qualifications and playing abilities. No in‐person, off‐campus recruiting can contact prospective contacts with a prospect are permitted. student‐athletes
Q:
Quiet Period ‐ Permissible to make in‐person (and/or the student‐athete’s recruiting contacts only on the member relatives/guardians)? institution's campus.
Please email your answer to
[email protected] AUGUST COMPLIANCE QUESTION OF THE MONTH WINNER
ANNOUNCEMENT: COACHES EDUCATION MEETING
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1ST @ THE YORDON CENTER
ERIC LUZZI
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HUSKIE Q & A: NCAA DIVISION I NEW LEGISLATION
Q: Can my parents interact with a prospective student‐athlete’s relatives or legal guardians while they are on campus? A: Yes , on‐campus contacts between a prospective student‐athlete or their relatives or legal guardians accompanying them and the relatives or legal guardians of an enrolled student‐athlete is now permissible. Q: Can I interact with a prospective student‐athlete off campus? A: Yes , off‐campus, in‐person contact between an enrolled student‐athlete and a prospective student‐athlete is now permissible, provided such contact does not occur at the direction of an institutional staff member. Furthermore, your coach can not arrange such contact. Q: Are coaches allowed to engage in recruiting conversations with prospective student‐athletes that attend NIU camps or clinics? A: Yes , in sports other than men’s basketball, it is permissible for NIU coaches to engage in recruiting conversations with prospective student‐athletes during NIU camps or clinics. Please note: some examples have been presented in this Q & A, however, not every possible situation has been covered. If you have any questions regarding your involvement with prospective or enrolled student‐athletes and the NCAA rules and regulations, please direct those questions to the: HUSKIE ATHLETIC COMPLIANCE OFFICE
[email protected] or visit us on the web at: http://www.niuhuskies.com/compliance/niu‐compliance.html
INFO FOR HUSKIE STUDENT‐ATHLETES: TIME LIMIT RELATED ISSUES
In all sports, the following time limitations shall apply: Daily and weekly hour limitations do not apply to countable athletically related activities occurring during preseason practice prior to the first day of classes or the first scheduled contest (whichever is earlier) (Bylaw 17.1.6.3.4). A student‐athlete’s participation in countable athletically related activities during your season are limited to a maximum of four (4) hours per day and 20 hours per week (Bylaw 17.1.6.1). All competitions are counted as three (3) hours regardless of the actual duration of these activities (Bylaw 17.1.6.3.2). Besides football, outside of the playing season, from the institution’s first day of classes of the academic year or September 15, whichever occurs earlier, to one week prior to the beginning of the institution’s final examination period at the conclusion of the academic year, only a student‐athlete’s participation in required weight training, conditioning and skill‐related instruction shall be permitted. A student‐athlete’s participation in such activities per Bylaw 17.02.1 shall be limited to a maximum of eight hours per week with not more than two hours per week spent on skill‐related workouts. Helpful Reminder– Required Days Off In season– all countable activities shall be prohibited during one calendar day per week, except during participation in one conference and postseason championship and any postseason bowl games or National Invitation Tournaments, and during participation in NCAA championships (Bylaw 17.1.6.4). Out of season– during the academic year, all countable activities are prohibited during two calendar days per week (Bylaw 17.1.6.5).
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FROM THE MAC: LOCAL CLUB SPORTS
FROM THE NCAA: INFRACTIONS REPORT
Club Coaching and Recruiting Expenses
Institution: University of Central Florida
Many compliance administrators and coaches have expressed concern regarding the inability of coaches who are also employed by local sports clubs to evaluate prospective student‐athletes when they are attending an event in their capacity with the club team, and the prohibition against the institution and club team each paying some of the coach’s expenses (Bylaws 13.11.2.4.3 and 13.14.1 and 2/13/1992 official interpretation).
Please note: This is an overview of their major infraction case.
13.11.2.4.3 ‐ Institutional Sponsorship of Local Sports Club Neither an institution's athletics department nor an institution's athletics booster group may sponsor a local sports club that includes prospective student‐athletes. It is permissible for a department of the institution that operates independent of the athletics department (e.g., physical education department, recreation department) to sponsor a local sports club that includes prospective student‐athletes, provided no athletics department staff member is involved with the club team.
Violation Summary: 1. IMPERMISSIBLE RECRUITING ACTIVITY BY OUTSIDE PARTIES. [Bylaws 13.01.4, 13.1.2.1, 13.1.2.4‐(a) and 13.1.3.5.1] Representatives 1 and 2 assisted the institution in the recruitment of six men's basketball and five football prospective student‐athletes by promoting the institution's athletics programs. 2. IMPERMISSIBLE BENEFITS TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENT‐ATHLETES
AND STUDENT‐ATHLETES. [Bylaws 12.1.2.1.3.1, 12.3.1.2, 13.2.1, 14.11.1, 15.01.2, 15.01.3 and 16.11.2.1] 3. IMPERMISSIBLE RECRUITING INDUCEMENT – ATTEMPTED
ARRANGEMENT FOR EMPLOYMENT. [Bylaws 13.2.1 and 13.2.1.1‐(a)] The director of athletics, representative 1, and another representative of the institution's athletics interests, attempted to arrange employment for the mother of prospect 7 in the locale of the institution. 4./5. UNETHICAL CONDUCT. [Bylaws 10.1‐(d)] Between January and September 7, 2011, the director of athletics failed to deport himself in accordance with the honesty and integrity normally associated with the conduct and administration of intercollegiate athletics as required by NCAA legislation and violated ethical‐conduct legislation. Additionally, the assistant football coach violated the principles of ethical conduct when he knowingly provided false and misleading information to the institution and enforcement staff when questioned about his knowledge of or involvement in violations of NCAA legislation.
6. FAILURE TO MONITOR – HEAD MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH. [Bylaw 11.1.2.1]
13.14.1 ‐ Institutional Control
7. LACK OF INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL. [NCAA Constitution 2.8.1,
6.01.1 and 6.4.2] All funds for the recruiting of prospective The scope and nature of the violations detailed demonstrate that the student‐athletes shall be deposited with the member institution failed to exercise institutional control and monitoring in the institution, which shall be exclusively and entirely administration of its athletics programs. responsible for the manner in which such funds are ALSO CITED: SECONDARY VIOLATION. RECRUITING VIOLATIONS – expended. IMPERMISSIBLE TEXT MESSAGES. [Bylaw 13.4.1.2]
Penalty Summary:
February 13, 1992 Official Interpretation Coaches' involvement in local club ‐‐ effect on evaluation limitations
Penalties imposed by the committee were the following: public reprimand and censure; five years of probation; postseason ban in football and men's basketball; limit of 20 initial grants‐in‐aid and 80 total grants in football for three academic years; limit of 11 total grants in men's basketball each year for three academic years; a financial penalty in the amount of $50,000; vacate all wins in men's basketball in which student‐athlete A competed for the 2008‐09, 2009‐10 and 2010‐11 academic years; reduction of permissible recruiters allowed off campus at any one time (see report); limit to 30 official paid visits in football for the 2012‐13 and 2013‐14 academic years; official paid visits in men's basketball limited to seven for the 2012‐13 and 2013‐14 academic years; show‐cause order placed on the former director of athletics for a three‐year period; show‐cause order placed on the former assistant football coach for a period of one‐year; requirement that the head men's basketball coach attend NCAA Regional Rules Seminars in 2013, 2014 and 2015 at his own expense; annual compliance reporting required.
If an institution's coaching staff member is involved with a local sports club during the academic year, the institution does not use one of its four evaluations for any prospect participating in any competition against the local team the individual coaches. The committee noted that any other contests observed by the coaching staff member involving prospective student‐athletes (e.g., scouting future opponents for the club team) must count as an evaluation for each prospect participating in the contest.
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COACHES CORNER: National Letter of Intent and Recruiting Materials NATIONAL LETTER OF INTENT: Who Signs?
Prospective student‐athletes who will be entering four‐year institutions for the first time as full‐time students are permitted to sign an NLI (International and home school prospective student‐athletes shall be managed in accordance with their program's requirements for completion). The only exception applies to a 4‐2‐4 transfer student‐athlete, provided the prospective student‐athlete graduates from the junior college if he or she has a previous valid NLI. In this case, a 4‐2‐4 transfer student‐athlete is permitted to sign an NLI.
NATIONAL LETTER OF INTENT: One Valid NLI
A prospective student‐athlete may sign only one valid NLI annually. For example, a prospective student‐athlete may not sign an NLI for basketball and later sign an NLI for soccer. He or she is bound by the first valid NLI signed.
Inasmuch as a prospective student‐athlete may sign only one valid NLI during an academic year, a prospective student‐athlete who is granted a complete release may not sign another NLI during that same signing year. Additionally, if an NLI is declared null and void, the prospective student‐athlete may not sign another NLI during that same signing year unless the NLI was declared null and void due to a discontinued sport.
National Letter of Intent Signing Dates for Prospective Student‐Athletes Enrolling in the 2013‐2014 Academic Year Sport
Initial Signing Date
Final Signing Date
Basketball (Early Period)
November 14, 2012
November 21, 2012
April 17, 2013
May 15, 2013
December 19, 2012
January 15, 2013
Football (Regular)
February 6, 2013
April 1, 2013
Soccer, Track, Cross Country
February 6, 2013
August 1, 2013
November 14, 2012
November 21, 2012
April 17, 2013
August 1, 2013
Basketball (Regular period) Football (Midyear JC Transfer)
All Other Sports (Early Period) All other Sports (Regular Period)
Recruiting Materials
Initial Dates for Correspondence: Sports other than Men’s Basketball— September 1 of junior year. Men’s Basketball— June 15 at conclusion of sophomore year. Responding to PSA Prior to Initial Date: All sports— Staff members may respond to PSA’s letter or electronic mail,
provided the written response does not include information that would initiate the recruitment of the PSA or information related to the institution’s athletics program.
Electronic Transmissions Prior to Commitment: Sports other than Men’s Basketball— Limited to electronic mail and
facsimiles only. Men’s Basketball— Must be sent directly to PSA (or legal guardian/parents) and private.
Electronic Transmissions After Commitment: (Once a PSA signs an NLI, signs NIU’s offer of admission/financial aid, or
makes a financial deposit in response to offer of admission) All sports— No limit on the forms of electronic transmissions beginning the calendar day after the PSA’s commitment.
HUSKIE ATHLETIC COMPLIANCE OFFICE
[email protected] LINDSEY HICKS ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR COMPLIANCE/STUDENT SERVICES
[email protected] 815.753.8290
KIERA MILLER COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR
[email protected] 815.753.8339