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UAPB ATHLETICS COMPLIANCE NEWSLETTER VOL 4 ISSUE 3
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
GOLDEN LIONS ROAR WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF COMPLIANCE? 2017-2018 Proposed Legislation Check out the 2017-2018 Proposed Legislation and let us know what you think! Your SAAC reps met with compliance to give us their feedback, which we submitted to the SWAC Office, which was then taken to the 2018 NCAA Legislation via the National SAAC. If you have anything to add we are all ears!!! Remember, these rules affect you!
NCAA Considering New Transfer Rules The Division I Transfer Working Group will spend the next several months seeking feedback on refined exceptions to the rule requiring all student-athletes to sit out a year of competition after transferring. Some exceptions now under consideration include:
Academic success of transfers
Challenges of coaches changes
The working group is not considering — and never entertained — a model that would allow all student-athletes to transfer and compete immediately. Division I member schools will be encouraged to examine all the potential exceptions and provide feedback on each. Individual sport communities, such as coaches associations or committees overseeing a particular sport, also will be asked to provide input. Any questions, concerns and/or feedback, contact to the Athletics Compliance Office. Remember, these rules affect you!
Follow us on TWITTER @uapbcompliance
REMEMBER, ASK BEFORE YOU ACT RECRUITING CALENDAR
STUDENT HOSTS AND OFFICIAL VISITS
BASEBALL
Quiet: Nov. 10-Feb. 28 MEN’S BASKETBALL
Evaluation: Sept. 30-Feb. 28 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK AND FIELD
Contact :Nov. 26-Feb. 3: 6 in-person off-campus contacts per PSA w/ not more than 1 permitted in 1 week or partial week
Dead: Feb. 5-8
Quiet: Feb. 9-April 14: 168 evaluation days, (excluding Memorial Day and Sundays). An authorized off-campus recruiter may use 1 evaluation to assess the PSA’s athletics ability and 1 evaluation to assess the PSA’s academic qualifications during the evaluation period. If an institution’s coaching staff member conducts both an athletics and an academic evaluation of the PSA in the same day during the evaluation period, the institution shall be charged with the use of an academics evaluation only and shall be permitted to conduct a second evaluation of the PSA on a separate day during this evaluation period. VOLLEYBALL
Contact: Jan 1-July 31 SOFTBALL
Evaluation: (for non-scholastic practice & competition activities prohibited): Jan. 2-May 28 SOCCER
DAILY AMOUNT OF MONEY:
A student host is allotted a daily amount of money for entertainment purposes, which can only be used for the host and prospect. The student host entertainment money amounts to up to $40 per day with up to an additional $20 per day for added prospects. Make sure to keep a record of receipts of all the purchases you made. You MAY NOT purchase UAPB memorabilia or the like or anything besides entertainment.
ACTIVITIES STRICTLY PROHIBITED: You MAY NOT travel more than 30 miles from UAPB. Cannot go to Little Rock unless dropping the PSA at the airport DO NOT let the PSA drive your car or the Coaches’ car NO underage consumption of alcohol NO use of drugs or sex for recruiting players, no adult entertainment establishments or the like NO gambling or gaming activities
Dead: Feb. 5-8 ALL OTHER SPORTS
Only one student host may receive complimentary meals provided that they are accompanying the prospective student-athlete (PSA) during an official visit
Contact: Jan. 3-July 31 FOOTBALL
COMPLIMENTARY MEALS:
Quiet: Nov. 10-Mar. 28 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Dead: April 9-12
DO NOT JEOPARDIZE YOUR ELIGIBILITY OR THE PSAs’!
WWW.UAPBLIONSROAR.COM CONGRATS FALL 2017 GRADUATES!
For the first time ever, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Department of Athletics, through a 2016-2017 SAAC’s proposal, had the opportunity to recognize student-athletes with distinctive graduation stoles at the University’s 153rd commencement ceremony. At the 2017 Fall Commencement, 16 Student-Athletes graduated, 2 Soccer Student-Athletes graduated Summa Cum Laude, one of which, Makayla Cowles, received the prestigious Chancellor’s Medallion for graduating with the highest GPA in her Mathematics major in the School of Arts and Science.
COMPLIANCE TRIVIA Fade A. Way, a women's basketball student-athlete at Ocean State University, wants to take advantage of an early "Cyber Monday" sale. Her team is playing on the road this weekend, and she does not have her credit cards with her to make the purchase. The sport administrator traveling with the team offers to let Fade use her credit card to take advantage of the sale, and Fade will pay her back as soon as they get back to campus. Is it permissible for the sport administrator to allow the student-athlete to use her credit card to make the purchase since she will be reimbursed tomorrow? No. Division I NCAA Bylaw 16.11.2.2 states that an institutional employee or representative of the institution's athletics interests may not provide a student-athlete with extra benefits or services, including, but not limited to: [R] (a) A loan of money; (b) A guarantee of bond; (c) An automobile or the use of an automobile; (d) Transportation (e.g., a ride home with a coach), except as permitted in Bylaw 16.9.1, even if the student-athlete reimburses the institution or the staff member for the appropriate amount of the gas or expense; or (e) Signing or co-signing a note with an outside agency to arrange a loan.
WHO ARE YOU ROOTING FOR? IN THE COMMUNITY Aramark, UAPB distribute 500 pairs of shoes to Jefferson County youth Aramark employees and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) hosted a Samaritan’s Feet event recently in observance of the National Day of Service. The volunteers, who were a mix of Aramark employees, UAPB students and student-athletes, and Pine Bluff community members distributed 500 pairs of new athletic shoes to pre-registered local children that attend the district’s schools. The volunteers actively engaged the children as they helped wash the recipients’ feet and fit them in their new shoes and socks while conveying a message of hope and caring. Leading up to this event, Aramark donated $10,000 (cost of the shoes) to Samaritan’s Feet, a non-profit organization which collects and distributes shoes for people in need within targeted areas throughout the U.S. and internationally.
NATIONAL LETTER of INTENT Sport (s)
Initial Signing Date
Final Signing Date
Basketball (Regular Period) Football (Regular Period)
April 11, 2018 February 7, 2018
Division I: May 16, 2018 April 1, 2018
Soccer and Men's Water Polo
February 7, 2018
August 1, 2018
All Other Sports (Regular Period)
April 11, 2018
August 1, 2018
AGREEMENT: The NLI must be accompanied by a financial aid agreement
SIGNING REQUIREMENT: An NLI must be signed within 7 days of its issuance date and sent to the SWAC Conference within 14 days after the PSA signs
END OF RECRUITING THE PSA: When the PSA signs the NLI, the recruiting process ends and schools are prohibited from recruiting the PSA any longer
REQUEST FOR NLI RELEASE: Student-Athlete (SA) who has signed an NLI may request a release from the NLI agreement with the school.
NLI PENALTY: A PSA MUST attend the signing institution for one full academic year. The PSA may not represent a second institution in competition until he or she completes one academic year in residence or has been official released from the NLI
DON’T FORGET TO SUBMIT/SIGN YOUR CARA LOGS! As a reminder, multi-sport athletes still have a maximum of 4 hrs/day and 20 hrs/week. CARA Logs are due on the 1st and 15th every month. Monday is the designated day to sign CARA Logs in HPER Office 335. You have until Thursday the week CARA Logs are due to sign.
CURRENT EVENTS NCAA Corrects Misleading Media Reports NCAA.org NCAA President Mark Emmert Saturday distributed the
South Carolina Commits Recruiting Violations in Football NCAA.org
following communication to all presidents serving in
Two University of South Carolina, Columbia, assistant
the NCAA governance structure. The email and related
football coaches leveraged relationships with a high
documents were in response to misleading media re-
school’s coaches to create a built-in recruiting ad-
ports from The Athletic and others that misrepresent-
vantage, according to a Division I Committee on Infrac-
ed the NCAA’s 2010 meeting and communication with
tions panel...
the representatives of a sexual violence advocacy organization...
Letter of Inquiry Sent to Michigan State Northern Colorado Basketball Staff Violated Academic Fraud, Recruiting Rules Houston Baptist failed to monitor its football program
COMPLIANCE STAFF
COMPLIANCE STAFF Ms. Yashiva Edwards Ms. Lydia Adeosun Director of Compliance Assistant Director of Compliance [email protected]|870-575-7182 [email protected]|870-575-8669
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
GOLDEN LIONS ROAR WHAT’S NEW IN THE WORLD OF COMPLIANCE? 2017-2018 Proposed Legislation Check out the 2017-2018 Proposed Legislation and let us know what you think! Your SAAC reps met with compliance to give us their feedback, which we submitted to the SWAC Office, which was then taken to the 2018 NCAA Legislation via the National SAAC. If you have anything to add we are all ears!!! Remember, these rules affect you!
NCAA Considering New Transfer Rules The Division I Transfer Working Group will spend the next several months seeking feedback on refined exceptions to the rule requiring all student-athletes to sit out a year of competition after transferring. Some exceptions now under consideration include:
Academic success of transfers
Challenges of coaches changes
The working group is not considering — and never entertained — a model that would allow all student-athletes to transfer and compete immediately. Division I member schools will be encouraged to examine all the potential exceptions and provide feedback on each. Individual sport communities, such as coaches associations or committees overseeing a particular sport, also will be asked to provide input. Any questions, concerns and/or feedback, contact to the Athletics Compliance Office. Remember, these rules affect you!
Follow us on TWITTER @uapbcompliance
REMEMBER, ASK BEFORE YOU ACT RECRUITING CALENDAR
STUDENT HOSTS AND OFFICIAL VISITS
BASEBALL
Quiet: Nov. 10-Feb. 28 MEN’S BASKETBALL
Evaluation: Sept. 30-Feb. 28 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK AND FIELD
Contact :Nov. 26-Feb. 3: 6 in-person off-campus contacts per PSA w/ not more than 1 permitted in 1 week or partial week
Dead: Feb. 5-8
Quiet: Feb. 9-April 14: 168 evaluation days, (excluding Memorial Day and Sundays). An authorized off-campus recruiter may use 1 evaluation to assess the PSA’s athletics ability and 1 evaluation to assess the PSA’s academic qualifications during the evaluation period. If an institution’s coaching staff member conducts both an athletics and an academic evaluation of the PSA in the same day during the evaluation period, the institution shall be charged with the use of an academics evaluation only and shall be permitted to conduct a second evaluation of the PSA on a separate day during this evaluation period. VOLLEYBALL
Contact: Jan 1-July 31 SOFTBALL
Evaluation: (for non-scholastic practice & competition activities prohibited): Jan. 2-May 28 SOCCER
DAILY AMOUNT OF MONEY:
A student host is allotted a daily amount of money for entertainment purposes, which can only be used for the host and prospect. The student host entertainment money amounts to up to $40 per day with up to an additional $20 per day for added prospects. Make sure to keep a record of receipts of all the purchases you made. You MAY NOT purchase UAPB memorabilia or the like or anything besides entertainment.
ACTIVITIES STRICTLY PROHIBITED: You MAY NOT travel more than 30 miles from UAPB. Cannot go to Little Rock unless dropping the PSA at the airport DO NOT let the PSA drive your car or the Coaches’ car NO underage consumption of alcohol NO use of drugs or sex for recruiting players, no adult entertainment establishments or the like NO gambling or gaming activities
Dead: Feb. 5-8 ALL OTHER SPORTS
Only one student host may receive complimentary meals provided that they are accompanying the prospective student-athlete (PSA) during an official visit
Contact: Jan. 3-July 31 FOOTBALL
COMPLIMENTARY MEALS:
Quiet: Nov. 10-Mar. 28 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Dead: April 9-12
DO NOT JEOPARDIZE YOUR ELIGIBILITY OR THE PSAs’!
WWW.UAPBLIONSROAR.COM CONGRATS FALL 2017 GRADUATES!
For the first time ever, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Department of Athletics, through a 2016-2017 SAAC’s proposal, had the opportunity to recognize student-athletes with distinctive graduation stoles at the University’s 153rd commencement ceremony. At the 2017 Fall Commencement, 16 Student-Athletes graduated, 2 Soccer Student-Athletes graduated Summa Cum Laude, one of which, Makayla Cowles, received the prestigious Chancellor’s Medallion for graduating with the highest GPA in her Mathematics major in the School of Arts and Science.
COMPLIANCE TRIVIA Fade A. Way, a women's basketball student-athlete at Ocean State University, wants to take advantage of an early "Cyber Monday" sale. Her team is playing on the road this weekend, and she does not have her credit cards with her to make the purchase. The sport administrator traveling with the team offers to let Fade use her credit card to take advantage of the sale, and Fade will pay her back as soon as they get back to campus. Is it permissible for the sport administrator to allow the student-athlete to use her credit card to make the purchase since she will be reimbursed tomorrow? No. Division I NCAA Bylaw 16.11.2.2 states that an institutional employee or representative of the institution's athletics interests may not provide a student-athlete with extra benefits or services, including, but not limited to: [R] (a) A loan of money; (b) A guarantee of bond; (c) An automobile or the use of an automobile; (d) Transportation (e.g., a ride home with a coach), except as permitted in Bylaw 16.9.1, even if the student-athlete reimburses the institution or the staff member for the appropriate amount of the gas or expense; or (e) Signing or co-signing a note with an outside agency to arrange a loan.
WHO ARE YOU ROOTING FOR? IN THE COMMUNITY Aramark, UAPB distribute 500 pairs of shoes to Jefferson County youth Aramark employees and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) hosted a Samaritan’s Feet event recently in observance of the National Day of Service. The volunteers, who were a mix of Aramark employees, UAPB students and student-athletes, and Pine Bluff community members distributed 500 pairs of new athletic shoes to pre-registered local children that attend the district’s schools. The volunteers actively engaged the children as they helped wash the recipients’ feet and fit them in their new shoes and socks while conveying a message of hope and caring. Leading up to this event, Aramark donated $10,000 (cost of the shoes) to Samaritan’s Feet, a non-profit organization which collects and distributes shoes for people in need within targeted areas throughout the U.S. and internationally.
NATIONAL LETTER of INTENT Sport (s)
Initial Signing Date
Final Signing Date
Basketball (Regular Period) Football (Regular Period)
April 11, 2018 February 7, 2018
Division I: May 16, 2018 April 1, 2018
Soccer and Men's Water Polo
February 7, 2018
August 1, 2018
All Other Sports (Regular Period)
April 11, 2018
August 1, 2018
AGREEMENT: The NLI must be accompanied by a financial aid agreement
SIGNING REQUIREMENT: An NLI must be signed within 7 days of its issuance date and sent to the SWAC Conference within 14 days after the PSA signs
END OF RECRUITING THE PSA: When the PSA signs the NLI, the recruiting process ends and schools are prohibited from recruiting the PSA any longer
REQUEST FOR NLI RELEASE: Student-Athlete (SA) who has signed an NLI may request a release from the NLI agreement with the school.
NLI PENALTY: A PSA MUST attend the signing institution for one full academic year. The PSA may not represent a second institution in competition until he or she completes one academic year in residence or has been official released from the NLI
DON’T FORGET TO SUBMIT/SIGN YOUR CARA LOGS! As a reminder, multi-sport athletes still have a maximum of 4 hrs/day and 20 hrs/week. CARA Logs are due on the 1st and 15th every month. Monday is the designated day to sign CARA Logs in HPER Office 335. You have until Thursday the week CARA Logs are due to sign.
CURRENT EVENTS NCAA Corrects Misleading Media Reports NCAA.org NCAA President Mark Emmert Saturday distributed the
South Carolina Commits Recruiting Violations in Football NCAA.org
following communication to all presidents serving in
Two University of South Carolina, Columbia, assistant
the NCAA governance structure. The email and related
football coaches leveraged relationships with a high
documents were in response to misleading media re-
school’s coaches to create a built-in recruiting ad-
ports from The Athletic and others that misrepresent-
vantage, according to a Division I Committee on Infrac-
ed the NCAA’s 2010 meeting and communication with
tions panel...
the representatives of a sexual violence advocacy organization...
Letter of Inquiry Sent to Michigan State Northern Colorado Basketball Staff Violated Academic Fraud, Recruiting Rules Houston Baptist failed to monitor its football program
COMPLIANCE STAFF
COMPLIANCE STAFF Ms. Yashiva Edwards Ms. Lydia Adeosun Director of Compliance Assistant Director of Compliance [email protected]|870-575-7182 [email protected]|870-575-8669
