Jen Daniels and Katie Willett

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Division I Introduction to Recruiting --
Contacts/Evaluations/Telephone Calls

• Jen Daniels and Katie Willett

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Overview

• Telephone Calls.
• Recruiting Periods.
• Contact.
• Evaluation.
• Quiet.
• Dead.
• Contacts and Evaluations.
• Restrictions at Specified Sites.

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Telephone CallsNCAA Bylaw 13.1.3
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Definition

• All electronically transmitted human voice
  exchange (including videoconferencing and
  videophones) is considered a telephone call.
• NCAA Bylaw 13.02.14

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Time Period for Telephone Calls

• Time period -- general rule.
• Not before July 1 following junior year of high
  school.
• One per week.
• One telephone call per week per institution even
  if recruiting in more than one sport.
• Collect and toll-free telephone calls.
• PSA may call anytime at his or her own expense,
  including before July 1 following junior year.

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Sport Exceptions

• Football -- FBS/FCS -- Bylaw 13.1.3.1.1.
• Men's basketball -- Bylaw 13.1.3.1.2.
• Women's basketball -- Bylaw 13.1.3.1.3.
• Men's ice hockey -- Bylaw 13.1.3.1.4.
• Women's ice hockey -- Bylaw 13.1.3.1.5.

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Exceptions to General Rule

• Unlimited telephone calls
• Day of an off-campus contact.
• Five days immediately before PSA's official
  visit.
• Initial date for signing of the NLI and two days
  immediately following initial signing date.
• Football 48 hours prior/after, and after PSA has
  signed with an institution.

Bylaw 13.1.3.3
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Additional Items of Note

• Permissible callers.
• Exceptions.
• "Top 5" plus academic advisors.
• Nonpermissible callers.
• Representative of athletics interest.
• Enrolled student-athletes.
• Collect and toll-free telephone calls.
• Permissible on or after July 1 after PSA's junior
  year.
• Exceptions -- men's and women's basketball.

Bylaw 13.1.3.4
Bylaw 13.1.3.5
Bylaw 13.1.3.6
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Case Study

• Daniel is a senior PSA in the sport of soccer.
• The coach at All-Star College calls Daniel on his
  cellular phone.
• Daniel's mom answers the call and indicates that
  Daniel is unavailable.
• Is this a countable telephone call?

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Case Study

• No, provided the coach ended the conversation
  without discussing recruitment.
• If the coach, for example, left a message
  regarding the merits of a program the telephone
  call is countable.
• What if the telephone call was dropped (e.g.,
  wireless service is lost)?

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Case Study

• A second telephone call initiated by institution
  is presumed to have violated the legislation.
• However, if contemporaneous documentation shows
  continuation of original telephone call no
  violation.
• Telephone call dropped inadvertently.
• For reasons beyond control.
• Burden is on institution.

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Recruiting Periods

• Contact period.
• Evaluation period.
• Quiet period.
• Dead period.

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Contact Period

• Permissible for authorized athletics department
  staff members to make in-person, off-campus
  recruiting contacts and evaluations.

Bylaw 13.02.4.1
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Evaluation Period

• Permissible for authorized athletics department
  staff members to be involved in off-campus
  activities designed to assess the academic
  qualifications and playing ability of PSAs.
  

Bylaw 13.02.4.2
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Quiet Period

• Permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts
  only on the member institution's campus.

Bylaw 13.02.4.3
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Dead Period

• Not permissible.
• Contacts or evaluations on or off the member
  institution's campus.
• Official or unofficial visits by PSAs to the
  institution's campus.
• No complimentary admissions.
• No visit to PSAs educational institution.
• Generally, may not speak or attend a meeting or
  banquet in which PSAs are present.
• May only call or write PSAs.

Bylaw 13.02.4.4
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Contacts and EvaluationsBylaw 13.1

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Contactable Individuals

• High school PSAs.
• Off-campus contacts may not be made before July 1
  following completion of junior year of high
  school.
• Two-year college PSAs.
• No contact with nonqualifier in first year.
• Four-year college PSAs.
• Must obtain permission to contact.
• If permission is not granted no contact, no
  athletics aid for one year.
• Hearing opportunity if permission is denied.

Bylaw 13.1.1
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Permissible Recruiters

• General rule.
• All contacts must be made by authorized staff
  members.
• Boosters may not contact, write or call PSAs.
• Exceptions.
• List in Bylaw 13.1.2.2 (e.g., established family
  friend, coach's spouse, coach is PSA's parent).

Bylaw 13.1.2
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ContactsBylaw 13.1.6
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Contact

• Any face-to-face encounter and exchange of
  dialogue in excess of a greeting.
• Any prearranged, face-to-face encounter, even if
  no conversation or
• Any face-to-face encounter, even if no
  conversation, at
• PSA's educational institution.
• Site of PSA's organized competition or practice.

Bylaw 13.02.3
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Contact

• Not a contact, provided
• The encounter was not prearranged
• AND
• There is no dialogue in excess of a greeting
• AND
• Appropriate steps are taken to immediately
  terminate the encounter.

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Recruiting Opportunities

• Sports other than football and basketball.
• Seven Maximum of three contacts in senior year.
• Football.
• Six Off-campus contacts at any site.
• Men's basketball.
• Seven Maximum of three contacts in senior year.
• Total recruiting-person days 130.
• Women's basketball.
• Five Maximum of three contacts in senior year.
• Total recruiting-person days 100.
• Bylaw 13.1.6

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Counting Contacts and Evaluations

• Contacts.
• All contacts count against recruiting
  opportunities, regardless of when they occur.
• Evaluations.
• During academic year count against recruiting
  opportunities.
• Outside academic year do not count against
  recruiting opportunities.
• Bylaw 13.1.6.5

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Contacts After Signed NLI

• Sports other than football.
• Not permissible during dead period.
• Not permissible by booster.
• Bylaw 13.1.7.2 still applies.
• Men's basketball Contact period once per week.
• Football.
• Same (a) through (c) above.
• Only during contact period and spring evaluation
  period once per week
• Contact at PSA's educational institution counts
  as one of two permissible days.

Bylaw 13.1.6.8
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Additional Items of Note

• On same day.
• Multiple contacts on same day only counts as one.
• Post-high school contacts.
• Contact regulations apply while PSA is in high
  school and the period beginning October 15
  following the PSA's completion of high school.

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Case Study

• Matt is a senior PSA in the sport of swimming.
• The coach at Big Time University conducted a home
  visit with Matt in October.
• The coach watched Matt compete at two separate
  swim meets in December. He did not talk to Matt
  after the meets.
• How many contacts and evaluations has the coach
  used for Matt?

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Case Study

• The coach has used one contact and two
  evaluations.
• How many recruiting opportunities remain?
• 4 (7 3 4)

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Restrictions at Specified SitesBylaw 13.1.7
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Contact at Practice or Competition Site

• Not permissible
• Contact with PSA at any site prior to a contest
  on the day of competition.
• Contact after a PSA reports "on-call" for
  competition-related activity (travel to an away
  contest) until released.
• Contact with a PSA involved in a multi-day
  competition (tournament) until PSA released by
  coach after the final game.
• Electronic mail at competition site.

Bylaw 13.1.7.2
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Case Study

• Sydney is taking her official visit at Big Time
  University Friday through Sunday.
• On Saturday morning, Sydney is going to leave her
  official visit to participate in her club team's
  water polo match. Once the match is over she
  will return to her visit.
• Can the coach at Big Time University have
  breakfast with Sydney Saturday morning?

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Case Study

• No, it would not be permissible for the coach to
  have breakfast with Sydney on Saturday morning.
• This would be considered contact with the PSA
  prior to a contest on the day of competition.
• Bylaw 13.1.7.2

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Case Study

• Big Time University is hosting the state high
  school basketball championship game.
• Brad, a junior PSA is participating in the
  championship game and would like meet with the
  coaching staff at Big Time University after the
  game?
• Is this permissible?

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Case Study

• No, it would not be permissible for the coaching
  staff to meet with Brad after the game.
• If a PSA is visiting an institution's campus
  before or after participating in a contest or
  event on the institution's campus, the PSA must
  depart the locale of the institution the calendar
  day before or after the contest or event.
• Bylaw 13.1.7.2.4

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Additional Restrictions --Men's Basketball

• No contact at nonscholastic events during
  academic year.
• No communication with PSA (including signed PSA),
  relatives, legal guardians, coach or any
  individual associated with PSA while PSA
  participates in summer certified event or
  nonscholastic event in April.
• May send printed materials to PSA's home.
• May communicate with signed PSA at event if PSA
  is not participating and not associated with any
  participating team.
• Bylaw 13.1.7.2.2

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Additional Restrictions --Women's Basketball

• July evaluation period.
• No communication with PSA, relatives, legal
  guardians, coach or any individual associated
  with PSA.
• May communicate with PSA who has graduated from
  high school and has signed NLI (no walk-ons).
• Bylaw 13.1.7.2.2

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EvaluationsBylaw 13.1.8
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Evaluation

• Any off-campus activity designed to assess the
  academic qualifications or athletics ability of a
  PSA.
• Includes visit to the PSA's educational
  institution
• OR
• Observation of a PSA participating in any
  practice or competition at any site.

Bylaw 13.02.6
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Evaluations

• Visit without contact by a coaching staff member
  to a PSA's educational institution counts as an
  evaluation for all PSAs in that sport at the
  institution.
• Limitations on evaluations are sport specific
  counted against the sport of the coach making the
  evaluation.
• Team sports.
• Evaluation counted for all PSAs participating in
  practice or competition, even if contact is made.
• Individual sports.
• Evaluation counted only for those PSAs the coach
  observes.
  
• Bylaw 13.1.8

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Men's Basketball Evaluations

• Recruiting-person days 130.
• Regularly scheduled scholastic practices and
  contests.
• Regular scholastic activities involving only
  those PSAs enrolled at that institution.
• Fall contact period.
• Evaluations only at PSAs' educational
  institutions.
• Academic year evaluation period.
• March and April contact periods.
• No evaluations of nonscholastic events.
• Summer evaluation period.
• Summer certified events and institutional camps.
• Bylaw 13.1.8.8

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Women's Basketball Evaluations

• Recruiting-person days 100.
• Academic year evaluation period.
• Regularly scheduled scholastic practices and
  contests.
• Pick-up games and open gyms.
• Nonscholastic events only
• Last full weekend of fall contact period and
• Friday, Saturday and Sunday of spring evaluation
  period.
• Summer evaluation period.
• Certified events, institutional camps and
  noninstitutional, nonorganized events (e.g.,
  pick-up games).
• Bylaw 13.1.8.8

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Football Evaluations

• Three evaluations from April 15 through April 14
  of the following year.
• Spring evaluations.
• Visit to PSA's educational institution twice.
• Visit with contact only of signed PSA counts.
• Evaluation days.
• Forty-two evaluation days in fall evaluation
  period.
• Scholastic and nonscholastic activities.
• Regularly scheduled scholastic practices and
  games and
• Regular scholastic activities involving only PSAs
  enrolled at that institution.
• Bylaw 13.1.8.9

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Additional Items of Note

• Evaluation days -- softball and volleyball.
• Tournaments.
• Count as one evaluation.
• Separate tiers (e.g., section, district) counts
  as one for each tier.
• Evaluations/contact at PSA's educational
  institution.
• Sports other than football If contact is made,
  all evaluations made that same day at the
  educational institution do not count.
• Football Any evaluations during a contact
  period only count as a contact.
• Bylaw 13.1.8

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Case Study

• Katie is a senior PSA in the sport of soccer.
• Coach Roe at Big Time University went to Katie's
  high school on Thursday to speak with her
  guidance counselor.
• On Friday, Coach Roe returned to Katie's high
  school to watch her compete and spoke with her
  and her parents after the contest.

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Case Study

• How many evaluations has Coach Roe used for
  Katie?
• One (the meeting with the guidance counselor on
  Thursday).
• One (observing Katies contest on Friday).
• How many contacts has Coach Roe used for Katie?
• One (the contact with Katie and her parents).
• How many recruiting opportunities are left?
• 4 (7 3 4)

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Summary

• Telephone Calls.
• Recruiting Periods.
• Contact.
• Evaluation.
• Quiet.
• Dead.
• Contacts and Evaluations.
• Restrictions at Specified Sites.

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Questions?