13 Point What A CaseStudy Review

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13 Point What???A Case-Study Review
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Overview of Case Study Topics

• Recruiting Task Force Issues
• Application of New Legislation

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Recruiting Task Force Issues Meals,
Transportation and Lodging

• On arrival to campus, Star, a basketball
  prospect, is driven to the finest steak
  restaurant in town.
• The institution rented a large SUV to accommodate
  Stars 68 frame, as well as the other prospects
  on the visit.
• At the restaurant, he sits down and orders a
  steak and three lobster tails.
• He then inquires if he can take a look at a
  dinner menu.

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Recruiting Task Force Issues Meals, Lodging
and Transportation

• Star is driven back to the guest house, where he
  is welcomed with party streamers and balloons.
• Are there issues with Stars visit?

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Recruiting Task Force Issues Meals, Lodging
and Transportation

• During an official visit, an institution must
• House a prospect in standard lodging that does
  not include special accessories (e.g., Jacuzzis,
  suites) not available generally to all guests
• Provide standard meals comparable to meals
  provided during the academic year and
• May provide a reasonable snack (e.g., pizza,
  hamburger) in addition to the three meals.
• Use an institutional vehicle (or rental
  equivalent) normally used to transport
  prospective students while visiting the
  institution's campus.
• May use personal vehicles to transport prospects.

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Key Interpretation

• Official visit entertainment money that a student
  host may receive is to cover all actual costs of
  entertaining the prospective student-athlete (and
  the prospect's parents, legal guardians or
  spouse) and the entertainment of the student
  host(s) and/or the institution's athletics
  department staff members who accompany the
  prospect.

-3/9/05, Item 1, Official Interpretation
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Recruiting Task Force Issues Simulation and
Personalization

• An institution is hosting several volleyball
  prospects for an official visit.
• When touring the locker room, the prospects are
  able to view a standard locker as it would look
  just before a game.
• The jersey displayed corresponds with the
  prospects high school number.

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Recruiting Task Force Issues Simulation and
Personalization

• Is it permissible for the institution to display
  a jersey that includes the prospects number
  during a tour of the locker room?
• Does is make a difference if the jerseys do not
  display a prospects high school or two-year
  college number?

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Recruiting Task Force Issues Simulation and
Personalization

• An institution may not arrange miscellaneous,
  personalized recruiting aids (e.g., personalized
  jerseys, personalized audio/video scoreboard
  presentations) during an official visit.

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Recruiting Task Force Issues Game Day
Activities

• During the same tour, the group of prospects are
  permitted to run out into the CAVE to the tune of
  the institutions hallowed fight song, Yea,
  Alabama.
• Is this permissible?
• What if the song was left out of this situation?

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Recruiting Task Force Issues Game-Day Activities

• A prospect may not engage in any game-day
  simulations (e.g., running onto the field/court
  with the team during pre-game introductions)
  during an official visit.
• However, a prospect may be present in the locker
  room prior to or subsequent to a competition or
  standing on the sidelines during pre-game
  activities prior to being seated in the regular
  seating areas during the competition.

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• OTHER ISSUES RELATED
• TO OFFICIAL VISITS

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Issues Related to Official Visits
Transportation

• If a PSA arrives at the Birmingham airport for an
  official visit, when does the visit begin?
• The 48-hour period of the official visit begins
  at the time the prospect arrives on the
  institution's campus, rather than with the
  initiation of the prospect's transportation by a
  coach or the time of the prospect's arrival at
  the airport or elsewhere in the community (see
  Bylaw 13.6.3.1.1). The prospect's transportation
  to and from the campus must be without delay for
  personal reasons or entertainment purposes. The
  institution may not pay any expenses for
  entertainment (other than the actual and
  reasonable cost of meals) in conjunction with the
  prospect's transportation. At the completion of
  the 48-hour visit, the prospect must depart the
  institution's campus immediately otherwise, the
  institution may not pay any expenses incurred by
  the prospect upon departure from the
  institution's campus, including the cost of the
  prospect's transportation home.

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Issues Related to Official Visits
Transportation

• If a PSA arrives at an airport other than the
  Birmingham airport for an official visit, when
  does the visit begin?
• During the official visit, any member of an
  institution's athletics department staff may
  provide ground transportation for a prospect and
  the prospect's parents or legal guardians between
  the campus and any bus or train station or
  airport.  If a prospect is transported by a
  member of the institution's athletic department
  from an airport, bus or train station other than
  the major airport, bus or train station nearest
  to the institution, the 48-hour official visit
  period begins with the initiation of the ground
  transportation by the member of the institution's
  athletics department staff upon the prospect's
  arrival at the airport, bus or train station.

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Issues Related to Campus Visits
Transportation/Lodging

• If a coach drops off a PSA at the Sheraton Hotel
  (considered on-campus) after a late arrival, when
  does the visit begin, at arrival or the next
  morning upon arranged activity with coach(es)?
• As long as the PSA is taken straight to the
  Sheraton with no entertainment/activities the
  evening of arrival, the visit would begin the
  next morning (assuming the PSA was picked up at
  the Birmingham airport). The on-campus site
  would not come into play with the start of the
  visit.

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Issues Related to Official Visits - Transportation

• Transportation of Prospect's Relatives, Friends
  or Legal Guardian(s)
• An institution shall not permit its athletics
  department staff members or representatives of
  its athletics interests to pay, provide or
  arrange for the payment of transportation costs
  incurred by relatives, friends or legal
  guardian(s) of a prospect to visit the campus or
  elsewhere however, an institution may
• Provide automobile-mileage reimbursement to a
  prospect on an official visit, even if relatives
  or friends accompany the prospect and
• Provide local transportation between its campus
  and the nearest airport for the parents,
  relatives or legal guardian(s) of a prospect
  making an official visit.

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Issues Related to Official Visits - Transportation

• Coach Accompanying Prospect
• When a coach accompanies a prospect on an
  official visit by automobile, per Bylaw
  13.5.2.2.3, the 48-hour period shall begin when
  the coach begins transporting the prospect to
  campus. Upon completion of the 48-hour period,
  the coach shall terminate contact with the
  prospect and his or her parents or legal
  guardians immediately.

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Questions?