Prospective Student-Athlete is a student who has started classes for the ninth grade or an individual who prior to the start of ninth grade receives any financial assistance or benefit (including benefits to relatives or friends) from the institution that is not provided to prospective students generally.
A student remains a prospect until the individual enrolls in a full-time program of study and attends classes in any term of a four-year collegiate institution’s regular academic year (excluding summer); or participates in a regular-squad practice or competition at a four-year collegiate institution.
Extra Benefit refers to any special arrangement provided to a student-athlete or his or her relatives or friends not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation.
This also includes any special arrangements by an institutional employee or a booster. The benefits a student-athlete may not receive include, but are not limited to: Any involvement, directly or indirectly, in making arrangements for or giving any financial aid or other benefits to a prospect or his/her family, relatives, or friends such as gifts, awards, loans, employment, transportation, free or reduced rent or housing.
Recruiting is any solicitation of a prospect or relatives/legal guardians by an institutional staff member or by a representative of the institution’s athletics interests for the purpose of securing the prospect’s enrollment and participation in the institution’s athletics program.
A Contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete’s relatives or legal guardian(s) and an institutional staff member or athletics representative during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting.
Recruiting by Representatives of Athletics Interests
Representatives of an institution’s athletics interests are prohibited from making in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts or telephone calls with a prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete’s relatives or legal guardians. On-campus contact is permitted, as are written communications. Recruiting contacts by representatives during a prospective student athlete’s official visit are confined to campus.
Telephone Calls
It is not permissible for a representative of athletics to make telephone calls to a prospective student-athlete.
Observing Prospective Student-Athlete’s Contest
An athletics representative may view a prospective student-athlete’s athletics contest on his or her own initiative, subject to the understanding that the athletics representatives may not contact the prospective student-athlete on such occasions.
Evaluation of Prospective Student-Athlete
An athletics representative may not contact a prospective student-athlete’s coach, principal, or counselor in an attempt to evaluate the prospective student-athlete.
Visiting Prospective Student-Athlete’s Institution
An athletics representative may not visit a prospective student-athlete’s educational institution to pick up film/videotape or transcripts pertaining to the evaluation of the prospective student-athlete’s academic eligibility or athletics ability.
Enrolled Student-Athletes
If a student-athlete enrolled at another institution contacts you, do not discuss the possibility of transferring with the athlete. Immediately tell the athlete to contact a Barry University Compliance Department staff member.
Commercial Advertisement
It is permissible to use the name, image or likeness of an enrolled student-athlete to directly advertise, recommend, or promote sales or the use of a commercial product or service, provided the agreement complies with NCAA NIL legislation.
Occasional Meal
A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional family home meal from a representative of the institution’s athletics interests provided the meal is in the individual’s home, on campus, or at a facility that is regularly used for home competition and may be catered. The representative of the institution’s athletics interests or an institutional staff member may provide reasonable local transportation to student-athletes to attend such meals.
Contact with Prospects
As an athletics representative, you are not precluded from continuing friendships with families of prospective or enrolled student-athletes. Contacts are permitted as long as they are not made for recruiting purposes and are not initiated by a Barry Athletics staff member.
