Division I Recruiting (Camps and Clinics) Foundational Scott Connors and Jenn Samble 2017 NCAA Regional Rules Seminars Overview Camps and Clinics 1. Timing and Location of Institutional Camps/Clinics. 2. Advertisements. 3. Noninstitutional Camp/Clinic Requirements. 4. Camps/Clinics Sponsored by a Recruiting or Scouting Service. 5. Nonprospect Aged Camps/Clinics. 6. Free or Reduced Admissions. 7. Employment. 8. Game Day Simulations. 9. New Legislation. Timing of Institutional Camps/Clinics Sport Permissible Time Periods for Camps/Clinics Basketball Football (FBS) Football (FCS) June, July or August (additional days of weeks included). Ten days in June or July (recruiting conversations can now take place at camps). June or July (recruiting conversations can now take place at camps). All Sports No camps/clinics during dead periods. NCAA Bylaws 13.12.1.1.3, 13.12.1.1.4 and 13.12.1.5 (2016-116) 1
Location of Institutional Camps/Clinics Sport Permissible Locations Basketball On campus or within a 100-mile radius. Football (FBS) Football (FCS) On an NCAA institution s campus or regularly used facility. On an NCAA institution s campus or regularly used facility. All Other Sports No restrictions. Bylaws 13.12.1.1.3, 13.12.1.1.4 and 13.12.1.5 (2016-116). Case Study #1 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? 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. 2016-116 Case Study #2 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? 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. 2016-116 2
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. Example of Permissible/Nonpermissible Salutation/Caption Case Study #3 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. No, an institution may not advertise their camps on any recruiting or scouting services website or advertisement. 3
Noninstitutional Camps/Clinics Time Period Sport Basketball Football (FBS) Employment when Prospects Involved Not Permissible. Not Permissible. Football (FCS) Women s Volleyball Softball All Other Sports Not Permissible. Permissible except off campus during quiet period. Permissible only during an evaluation period. Permissible. Case Study #4 Involvement 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. Requirements Open to any and all entrants. No free or reduced admissions to prospects. Athletics award winners may not be employed. Advertisements Bylaw 13.4.3.2. Promotion Bylaw 11.3.2.6. Dead Period Bylaw 13.12.1.5. Case Study #5 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? No, coach may not be employed (either on salaried or volunteer basis) even if no prospects are involved. Bylaw 13.12.2.3.1. May 9, 2014, Official Interpretation. April 1, 2011, Staff Interpretation Definition of Recruiting or Scouting Service. 4
Nonprospect Aged Camps/Clinics Case Study #6 Your institution is planning a camp for 6 th grade basketball players over the holiday vacation. Your coach only wants to invite four select teams. Is this permissible? Yes, camp and clinic legislation (Bylaw 13.12) does not apply to camps that do not involve prospect aged individuals. Free or Reduced Admissions 5
Case Study #7 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? Bylaw 13.12.1.7.1 - 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. Prospective and Enrolled Student-Athlete Camp or Clinic Employment Committed Prospective Student-Athlete Bylaw 13.12.1.7.1.1 Student-Athlete Bylaw 13.12.2.1 May only employ prospective student-athletes who have committed to your institution, not any committed prospect. Game Day Simulations 6
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] Case Study #8 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. 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. This activity is being consistently used across the institution s camps, including youth and adult camps (non-psa aged camps). Permissible? New Legislation 7
Proposal No. 2016-51 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. Proposal No. 2016-113 Prohibits an institution from hiring a individual who has been associated with a recruited prospective studentathlete (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). Proposal No. 2016-122 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. 8
Proposal No. 2016-123 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. Questions? We Want Your Feedback Your input is important. Rate this session using the survey on the Regional Rules Seminar app. 9