Transcript • • • • • • Countable Athletically Related Activity Meals Recruiting Reminders Campus Visits Social Media Recruiting Calendars SPORT DATE PERIOD Track/CC Tennis Softball Volleyball W. Golf W.

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Countable Athletically Related Activity
Meals
Recruiting Reminders
Campus Visits
Social Media
Recruiting Calendars
SPORT
DATE
PERIOD
Track/CC
Tennis
Softball
Volleyball
W. Golf
W. Soccer
Sept 1-Oct 31
Contact
Baseball
Sept 1-12
Sept 13-Oct 31
Quiet
Contact
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CARA logs must be submitted every Monday of the week during the academic
year while school is in session ( Through ACS)
– Including vacation and final examination periods
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Reminders:
– Any required activity must be counted (including punishment activity)
– Countable athletically related activity may not be conducted at any time following
competition
– Countable athletics related activity may not be conducted between midnight and 5
a.m.
– A “voluntary” activity becomes “countable” when unauthorized sports staff are
watching the activity or providing instruction
• Includes Director of Operations
Exceptions:
– Strength and conditioning coaches may be present during voluntary workouts to
provide safety instruction
Out of Season
In-Season
• Maximum of 20 hours per week
• Maximum of 4 hours per day
• At least one day off per week (7-day period)
• Same 7-day period must be used throughout segment
(set day of week in ACS prior to segment beginning)
• Maximum of 8 hours per week • Maximum of 4 hours
per day
• At least two off days per week
• Individual Skill Instruction
-Maximum of two hours per week
-Sept. 15th-April 15th. Entire team may partake
*Baseball-Sept 15 to 1 week prior to fall
final examination period. Jan 15-April 15
-Before Sept. 15th and after April 15th. Limited to
four student-athletes.
Countable
Non-Countable
Practice (In-season only)
Compliance Meetings
Promotional Activities
Competition (3 hours regardless of actual duration)
Academic Meetings
Community Service
Study hall/tutoring
Travel to/from contest-off day
Meeting initiated by SA
Treatment/rehab
Strength
and conditioning activities
Film sessions with coaches
Meetings initiated or required by coach
In-Season
• Unlimited activity during
vacation period
• May use travel to and from
competition as day off
Out-of-Season
• Conditioning drills may not
simulate offensive or
defensive alignments
• No equipment related to
the sport may be used
during conditioning
activities
• No required participation in
any CARA during and
institutional vacation period
Home
Competition
• All student-athletes may receive
meals beginning the evening before
competition through the time until
they are released by institutional
personnel
• Once student-athletes are released,
they may be provided a postgame
meal or a cash amount that does not
exceed $15
Away From
Home
Competition
• All student-athletes may receive
pregame and postgame meals in
addition to regular meals
• Athletes may receive up to $15 in
lieu of postgame meal
• Athletes may receive meals from the
time the team is required to report
for team travel until the time the
team returns to campus
• Athletes may receive cash at the
time of their release from countable
activity
JUNIOR
Recruiting Materials
Permissible after September 1
Telephone Calls
-One call per week beginning July 1 following junior year, or opening
day of classes of senior year (earliest)
-Unlimited during contact period for baseball, track/cc, softball and
volleyball.
SENIOR
Telephone Calls
Once per week (unlimited during contact periods for baseball, track/cc,
softball and volleyball
Off-Campus Contact
-July 1 prior to senior year or opening day of classes of senior year in
high school (earliest and subject to recruiting calendars)
Official Visits
Opening day of classes
Evaluations and Contacts
50 evaluation days in softball Aug 1-July 31
80 evaluation days in women’s volleyball Aug 1-July 31
Seven recruiting opportunities (contacts & evaluations combined) per
prospect and not more than 3/7 may be contacts
Practice/Competition site restrictions
The Basics
Requirements
Standardized Test Score
TAMUCC
One (1) paid
visit per
prospect
(13.6.2.1)
(PSAT, SAT, PLAN or ACT)
Total
Five (5) paid visits
per prospect,
regardless of
number of sports
Applies only to
Division I
institutions
(13.6.2.2)
Transcripts
No earlier than opening day
of classes of the PSA’s senior
year
Registered with NCAA
Eligibility Center
Compliance: Activate
prospect on
Institutional Request
List (IRL)
On Oct. 15 following the completion of high
school, all visit limitations are reset
Coaches: Request official visit through ACS
two (2) working days prior to visit
Time Period
Transportation
48 Hours maximum (13.6.4)
Clock starts when the prospect:
(13.6.4.1)
Arrives on campus;
Is provided a sit-down meal
and/or entertainment prior to
arriving on campus;
Is picked up from a major
airport outside of Corpus Christi;
or
Is picked up at their home by
an athletic department staff
member
From CCI:
Any member of athletics
department may transport
prospect (and guests) to
campus/hotel
From any other airport:
Only full-time staff
members may transport
prospect (and guests) to
campus/hotel
Managers and/or students
may not transport prospects
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Campus
Driving From Home
Hotel
(TAMUCC
Staff Present
Driving From Home
CC International
Drive-thru Meal
Option 4
CC International
Sit-Down
Meal
Option 5
Other
Airports
Drive-thru Meal
Campus
Hotel (Drop-off)
Hotel
Hotel (Drop-off)
Campus
Campus
Campus
Prospect
PSA’s Parents, Legal
Guardian, Children,
Spouse
Siblings, Grandparents,
Other Family
Student Host
Lodging
-Actual costs of
reasonable expenses
while traveling to and
from campus
-Commercial facilities in
30-mile radius may be
used
-Commercial facilities in
30-mile radius may be
used
May stay in same room
without institution
providing any extra costs
N/A
Meals
Three (3) meals per day
plus reasonable snack
(e.g., pizza, hamburger)
-Not included in the
$40/day entertainment
expense
Three (3) meals per day
plus reasonable snack
(e.g., pizza, hamburger)
-Not included in the
$40/day entertainment
expense
Impermissible
Provided the student
host is accompanying the
prospect
-Not included in the
$40/day entertainment
expense
Entertainment
Student host controls
funds
Student host controls
funds
Impermissible
$40 each day of the visit
to cover host(s),
prospect and prospect’s
parents, legal guardian,
children or spouse (new
legislation)
-Student host may be
given an additional$20
per day for each
additional prospect
hosted
Tickets
Three (3) maximum complimentary admission to home athletics event for
prospect and those accompanying the prospect
ONE (1)
• Official Visit Request Form
• Post Visit Form (requires signature of
prospect)
Request complimentary tickets through ACS prior to visit and submit all
forms and necessary proof of travel, receipts, etc. with reimbursement
request to the Compliance office after the visit has concluded.
• Unlimited (at expense of prospect)
• Athletics may provide three (3) maximum
complimentary admission to home athletics
event for prospect and those accompanying the
prospect
• Athletics staff member may provide
transportation to and from practice or
competition sites in the prospect’s sport and to
attend a home athletic contest
Request unofficial visit and complimentary tickets through ACS prior to visit.
• Coaches may not accept or initiate a “friend”
request until it is permissible to send
correspondence to a prospect
• Once allowed as a “friend,” coaches:
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May send direct messages
May NOT post on prospect’s wall
May NOT engage in live chat function
May NOT comment about a prospect in any fashion
• The calendar day after an NLI is signed, all of the above is
permissible with that specific prospect (13.4.1.2.1)
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It is permissible for all coaching staff members to maintain a Twitter account or
any other form of micro blog.
– Coaches/staff may comment about the following:
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Game scores
Team updates
Facility updates
Coaching staff updates
– Coaches/staff may NOT:
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Publicize the recruitment of a particular prospect
Publicize a prospect’s visit to campus
Post pictures of prospects engaged in an institutional camp/clinic
Have communication with or about prospect’s in public view (e.g., @ “replies” or
“mentions”)
Once a prospect signs an NLI, coaches may communicate in public view and
make comments regarding that particular
prospect
The ONLY EXCEPTION to mentioning a prospect prior to signing is in
response to an inquiry by the media in order to confirm recruitment of the
prospect
Coaches may interact with prospects through the direct message function
on Twitter
However: “If a coach is aware that a prospect has elected to receive Twitter
direct messages as text messages and the coach continues to engage in a
direct message conversation as a means to circumvent the restrictions on
text messages, the coach has committed a violation”
• Please complete CARAs no later than
Mondays for the previous week.
• NLI Signees request final amateurism.
• Official Visits
• Season Declaration