1. (Camps and Clinics) Foundational
Division I Recruiting
(Camps and Clinics) Foundational
Scott Connors and Jenn Samble
2017 NCAA Regional Rules Seminars

2. Overview – Camps and Clinics
Timing and Location of Institutional Camps/Clinics.
Advertisements.
Noninstitutional Camp/Clinic Requirements.
Camps/Clinics Sponsored by a Recruiting or Scouting Service.
Nonprospect Aged Camps/Clinics.
Free or Reduced Admissions.
Employment.
Game Day Simulations.
New Legislation.
Reiterate foundational nature of this session. How many people first time at RR? Geared towards newer compliance folks.

3. Timing of Institutional Camps/Clinics
Sport
Permissible Time Periods for Camps/Clinics
Basketball
June, July or August (additional days of weeks included).
Football (FBS)
Ten days in June or July (recruiting conversations can now take place at camps).
Football (FCS)
June or July (recruiting conversations can now take place at camps).
All Sports
No camps/clinics during dead periods.
Making slides consistent with legislation after the vote. While presenting, make a point that this is a foundational session, a more detailed analysis of the legislative changes is being discussed in the Football Issues session. (note time/date).
NCAA Bylaws , and ( )

4. Location of Institutional Camps/Clinics
Sport
Permissible Locations
Basketball
On campus or within a 100-mile radius.
Football (FBS)
On an NCAA institution’s campus or regularly used facility.
Football (FCS)
All Other Sports
No restrictions.
Bylaws , and ( ).

5. Case Study #1 Fact Pattern: Analysis:
In-State Institution played a home football game at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last season in conjunction with a special event.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway contacted In-State Institution gauging their interest in conducting a camp at their facility this summer. Is this permissible?
Analysis:
No, the intent of legislation is that the restriction for football camps apply to the institution’s main campus, regularly used facility, or an NCAA member institution’s campus.

6. Case Study #2 Fact Pattern: Analysis:
Coach T is a former football teammate of your institutions head coach. T is currently the head football coach of a Division III institution located in another state with top prospects.
Coach T has contacted your coach about working his institutional camp this July. Is this permissible?
Analysis:
Yes, your coach can work any camp which is owned and operated by an NCAA institution. Your coach would also need to count this camp employment within his 10 days.

7. Camp and Clinic Advertisements
What information may a camp brochure include?
While there are no restrictions on the design or content of camp brochures, institutions should be mindful of the inclusion of material that creates or includes recruiting language.

8. Example of Permissible/Nonpermissible Salutation/Caption

9. Case Study #3 Fact Pattern:
Upper Deck Softball, a recruiting service has contacted your coach and asked whether she wants to advertise her camp on their website.
Your institutions coaches will not work any Upper Deck camps or involve Upper Deck with their camps in any other manner.
Analysis: No, an institution may not advertise their camps on any recruiting or scouting services website or advertisement.

10. Noninstitutional Camps/Clinics Time Period
Sport
Employment when Prospects Involved
Basketball
Not Permissible.
Football (FBS)
Football (FCS)
Women’s Volleyball
Softball
Permissible – except off campus during quiet period.
Permissible only during an evaluation period.
All Other Sports
Permissible.
Proposal (SB). Let institutions know institutional v. non-institutional camps definition.

11. Case Study #4 Involvement Requirements
In sports other than basketball and football, may a coach be involved in any capacity (e.g. work, speaker, demonstrator) provided noninstitutional camp/clinic adheres to requirements for institutional camps/clinics.
Open to any and all entrants.
No free or reduced admissions to prospects.
Athletics award winners may not be employed.
Advertisements Bylaw
Promotion Bylaw
Dead Period Bylaw

12. Case Study #5
Fact Pattern: Your coach has been invited to work at a coaches clinic that is sponsored by a scouting service. No prospects will be involved. Is this permissible?
Analysis:
No, coach may not be employed (either on salaried or volunteer basis) even if no prospects are involved.
Bylaw
May 9, 2014, Official Interpretation.
April 1, 2011, Staff Interpretation – Definition of Recruiting or Scouting Service.

13. Nonprospect Aged Camps/Clinics

14. Case Study #6
Fact Pattern: Your institution is planning a camp for 6th grade basketball players over the holiday vacation. Your coach only wants to invite four select teams. Is this permissible?
Analysis: Yes, camp and clinic legislation (Bylaw 13.12) does not apply to camps that do not involve prospect aged individuals.

15. Free or Reduced Admissions

16. Case Study #7 Fact Pattern: Analysis: Exceptions:
Institution will provide free or reduced admission to its baseball camp to underprivileged prospects.
To receive the free or reduced admission, prospects must demonstrate they are eligible for a free or reduced lunch program.
Permissible?
Analysis:
Bylaw No reduced or free admission to an athletics award winner or any individual being recruited by the institution.
Exceptions:
Objective criteria unrelated to athletics ability; published and available on an equal basis; and
Discounts to children of an institutional staff member.

17. Prospective and Enrolled Student-Athlete Camp or Clinic Employment
Committed Prospective Student-Athlete
Bylaw
Student-Athlete
Bylaw
May only employ prospective student-athletes who have committed to your institution, not any committed prospect.

18. Game Day Simulations

19. Game Day Simulations During a Camp/Clinic Involving Prospects
The committee determined that it is impermissible to perform game day simulations (e.g., running out of an inflatable tunnel to music, smoke machine, announcing names through public address system) during an institutional camp/clinic involving prospective student-athletes.
Further, game day simulations remain impermissible at camps/clinic involving prospects even if similar game day activities occur at other institutional camps (e.g., nonprospective student-athlete aged camp, women’s football clinic)
Official Interpretation: [Reference: 3/22/17]

20. Case Study #8 Fact Pattern: Analysis:
Institution wishes to use its spotlight system and music during a camp and clinic, that includes PSAs, to motivate campers as they run onto the field to begin the drills/competition portion of camp.
This activity is being consistently used across the institution’s camps, including youth and adult camps (non-PSA aged camps).
Permissible?
Analysis:
No, although the institution may wish to engage in this same for all of its camps and clinics, it is impermissible during an institutional camp involving prospects because this is a game day simulation.

21. New Legislation

22. Proposal No
Permits and institution’s coach to arrange and conduct a campus tour during the institution’s camps or clinics.
Tours during camps or clinics no longer need to be arranged and conducted by personnel outside the athletics department, but the content of the tour does need to be approved by an authority (e.g., admissions office) outside of athletics.
Effective Date: Immediate.

23. Proposal No
Prohibits an institution from hiring a individual who has been associated with a recruited prospective student-athlete (IAWRP) during the previous two years into a noncoaching staff or strength and conditioning position or to work an institution’s camp or clinic in women’s basketball until two years after the PSA’s enrollment at the institution.
Adds the IAWRP legislation to women’s basketball and makes men’s and women’s IAWRP basketball rules consistent.
Effective Date: August 1, 2017 (exempts contracts signed before January 18, 2017).

24. Proposal No
Permits the institution to employ an individual associated with a recruited prospective student-athlete (IAWRP) in the sports of men’s basketball at an institutional camp/clinic two years after the prospective student-athlete's initial full-time enrollment at the institution.
Previously, an IAWRP could not be employed until the PSA that he/she was associated with exhausted eligibility. This aligns the IAWRP legislation with the IAWP legislation
Effective Date: Immediate.

25. Proposal No
Permits a women's basketball coaching staff member to engage in recruiting activities (e.g., campus tour, meeting with academic advisor) with prospective student-athletes during an institutional camp or clinic.
This legislation allows coaches and their staffs directly provide PSAs more information on their programs and activities while reducing monitoring burden on campus staff.
Effective Date: August 1, 2017.

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