1. Division I Recruiting Hot Topics
DJ Brown
Jen Roe

2. Session Overview
Benefits received in conjunction with recruiting events.
Co-mingling of club team responsibilities and expenses with institutional travel and responsibilities.
Use of student host groups.
Student-Athlete Experience Committee.
Best practice and educational efforts from NCAA staff.

3. Recruiting Funds

4. Use of Recruiting Funds
All fund for recruiting must be deposited with the institution (Bylaws and ).
Benefits for boosters.
Benefits from event operators.
Sharing expenses with other institutions.

8. Club Team & Institutional Expenses

9. Club Team Expenses and Institutional Expenses
There needs to be a clear line of demarcation and no crossover between club and institutional expenses may occur.
Recruiting activities.
Travel expenses for contests.

10. Case Study
Your assistant swim coach is also the coach of a local sports club.
Both the institution’s team and the coach’s club team will be competing in the same town.
Your coach is flying out with your institution’s team but will rent a car.
The assistant swim coach will coach a club athlete the first day of the trip and then coach the institution’s team for the remainder of the trip.
Is this permissible?

11. Case Study
No, the institution has paid for both legs of the transportation.
Coach would need to either travel with club team and return home before traveling with institutional team, or
Not coach the club team while traveling with the institutional team.

12. Student Host Groups

13. Who Can Serve as Host
Must be either a current student-athlete or a student designated in a manner consistent with the institution's policy for providing campus visits or tours to prospective students in general.
Student managers and other student employees are considered to be students, as opposed to athletics department employees. Therefore, are not permitted to host prospective student-athletes unless they meet the criteria in the legislation.
Bylaws and

14. Hosting Duties
Individuals are considered hosts if they are involved in traditional hosting duties, such as tasks that require specific interaction with the prospective student-athlete (e.g., entertaining, escorting).
Individuals who are involved solely in administrative functions (e.g., stuffing envelopes, collecting unofficial visit money, handling complimentary admissions) are not considered student hosts.

15. Athletic Department Involvement
Athletics departments are expected to remain completely uninvolved in the management and operation of these programs. An athletics department may:
Contribute funds to the overall university host program, provided such funding does not result in the athletics departments assuming control or compromising university oversight of such programs.
If permitted by institutional policy, may request specific hosts from the institution's pool of hosts only if such opportunities are available to other institutional departments and the athletics department does not compromise the university's control or oversight of the host program.
August 31, 2015 Educational Column

16. Student-Athlete Experience Committee

17. Student-Athlete Experience Committee
Student-Athlete Experience Committee (SAEC) has been charged with looking at the recruitment of prospective student-athletes that occurs prior to grade 11 in sports other than football and basketball.
SAEC recently recommended the creation of a Early Recruiting Subcommittee.
Staff is assisting subcommittee in identifying stakeholders in the recruiting process and gathering information and feedback from stakeholders.

18. Student-Athlete Experience Committee
Board of Directors
Council
Student-Athlete Experience Committee

19. Student-Athlete Experience Committee
Early Recruiting Review
Focus Areas
Principles
Problem Statements
Stakeholder Input

20. Student-Athlete Experience Committee
Recruiting Environment
(excludes basketball and football)
Early Recruiting
8th Grade
Nonbinding, verbal offers of athletics aid
Student financed campus recruiting visits*
Student to coach telephone communication*
9th Grade
10th Grade
Current Recruiting Model
11th Grade
Coach to student communication
12th Grade
Institutionally financed campus recruiting visits
Binding, written offers of athletics aid
*Recent legislation passed in some sports to prohibit until 11th grade

21. Student-Athlete Experience Committee
Early Recruiting Review Focus Areas
Phase I (Jan-Sep 2017)
Phase II (TBD)
Communication
Campus visits
Offers of athletics aid
Recruiting time periods
Tryouts
Camps and clinics

22. Student-Athlete Experience Committee
Principles to Guide the Review
Promote a fair and transparent process that empowers prospective student-athletes, parents and coaches to begin to exchange appropriate information to help make informed academic, athletics and financial decisions.
Evaluate the appropriate balance of scholastic and nonscholastic evaluation opportunities for coaches to assess the playing ability of prospective student-athletes.
Ensure appropriate time periods and requirements are established for institutions to make verbal scholarship or roster spot offers and adequate time is provided to allow the prospective student-athlete to consider the offer.
Evaluate the appropriate time period for official and unofficial visits and how the timing impacts information gathering in the early recruiting process.
Promote balance between a coach's need to support and mentor current student-athletes and the need to recruit.

23. Student-Athlete Experience Committee
Early Recruiting Problem Statements
Financial terms lack transparency.
Exploding offers.
Equivalency grant-in-aid market.
Uninformed and Pressured Financial Decisions
Offers made without academic information.
Offers accepted before academically ready.
Uninformed Academic Decisions
Exposure and access to early offers benefits students with financial means.
Socioeconomic Disparity
Facilitate and control communication.
Leverage verbal commitment to maintain participation.
Excessive Influence of Nonscholastic Coaches

24. Student-Athlete Experience Committee
Moving Forward
Establish a Subcommittee for Early Recruiting
Engage Stakeholders
Form Legislative Concepts Based on Feedback from Stakeholders

25. Educational Efforts/Best Practices
How are you educating your coaching staffs related to new legislation?
What are the monitoring efforts you are implementing on your campuses related new legislation?

26. QUESTIONS??????

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