Greg Dana
Jen Roe
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Camp and Clinic Logistics
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Camp and Clinic Employment Issues
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Nonscholastic Practice or Competition
• Men’s Basketball
• Women’s Basketball
• Football
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Understand the application of camp
and clinic legislation.
Understand the application of the
nonscholastic practice and
competition in the sports of men’s
basketball, women’s basketball and
football.
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Apply camp and clinic legislation
appropriately.
Recognize potential issues when
advertising a camp or clinic.
Apply nonscholastic practice or
competition legislation in the sports of
men’s basketball, women’s basketball
and football.
Advertisements are permissible in a
recruiting publication if:
a)
b)
c)
Included in the camp directory section;
Under ½ page and identical to other
ads;
Multiple camps listed on each page.
Bylaw 13.4.3.1.2
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A student-athlete’s (SA’s) name,
picture and institutional affiliation
may only be used to identify the SA
as a staff member.
Bylaw 12.5.1.6
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Institutions can advertise camps
with specific labels or towards a
specific group, but……
The camp still must be open to any
and all entrants.
Bylaw 13.4.3.1
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Our camp brochure includes
pictures from last year’s camp. The
participants are prospective
student-athletes (PSA) who were not
signed at the time.
Is this permissible?
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No. It is not permissible to
publicize a PSA’s visit to campus.
Bylaw 13.10.5
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Can I advertise my camp on
the website of a recruiting
publication?
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Yes, with restrictions. The website
needs to have a camp directory and all
advertisements have the same format.
Official Interpretation [Reference: 4/19/00, Item No. 1]
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Can I advertise my camp on
Facebook?
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Yes, if you are just posting
information about the camp on
your page.
Educational Column [Reference: 10/9/09, Item No. 1]
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Can we send out a blast email
advertising the camp?
Yes – if you are sending out the
brochure only.
 Possibly no, if it includes an
additional message from the
coach.
 Make sure it is permissible
correspondence to all of the
recipients.
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Bylaw 13.4.1
Additional criteria for men’s basketball:
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The PSA has started grade seven;
The PSA’s attendance at any institutional
camp or clinic has been solicited by the
institution (or a representative of the
institution's athletics interests);
The institution provided any recruiting
materials to the PSA;
Additional criteria for men’s basketball:
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An institutional coaching staff member has
had ANY recruiting contact with the PSA
(including contact initiated by the PSA);
The PSA has received a verbal offer or
verbally committed to attend the institution.
Bylaw 13.12.1.1.1.1
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Can coach hand out business
cards directing campers to our
Facebook fan page at camp?
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Yes, business cards are
permissible.
Bylaw 13.4.1.1
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Interactions between PSAs and
coaches are not subject to the
recruiting calendar restrictions.
Not permissible to extend written
offers of financial aid to a PSA
during a camp or clinic.
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Other coaches wishing to attend the
camp as observers must comply with
appropriate recruiting contact and
evaluations periods.
Institutional camps and clinics may not
be conducted during a dead period.
Proposal No. 2011-48 and Bylaw 13.12.1.5
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Your women’s basketball coach
has been asked to speak at a
coach’s clinic with PSAs present
during a quiet period?
Can she?
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Yes, if it is:
• Conducted by educational
institution.
• No recruiting presentation.
• No contacts with PSAs or parents.
• No evaluation activities.
Bylaw 13.1.8.1 –(b)-(2)
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Your men’s soccer coach has a
great opportunity to present at a
camp! Wait……
Is that permissible?
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Possibly. Consider it a meeting or banquet
with PSAs present per Bylaw 13.1.8.
Same restrictions as before:
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Conducted by educational institution.
No recruiting presentation.
No contacts with PSAs or parents.
No evaluation activities.
Bylaw 13.1.8.2
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What about compliance officers?
Can we go?
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Sure! No recruiting presentations
though.
Bylaw 13.12.2.3.7
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Basketball
• Coaches and noncoaching personnel
with basketball specific duties may only
work at own institution’s camps/clinics.
Football
• Provided the camp/clinic is operated in
accordance with restrictions applicable
to an institutional camp/clinic.
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Football Bowl Subdivision.
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May work at institutional and noninstitutional
camps/clinics during specific times.
Two periods of 15-consecutive days.
Months of June or July.
Football Championship Subdivision.
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May work at institutional and noninstitutional
camps/clinics during months of June, July or
August or any calendar week including days of
those months.
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Volleyball
• May be employed at a noninstitutional,
privately owned camp/clinic provided
it operated in accordance with
institutional camp legislation.
• May not be employed at institutional or
noninstitutional camps/clinics that are
conducted off the institution’s campus
during a quiet period.
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All Other Sports
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May work at noninstitutional camps/clinics
provided it is operated in accordance with
institutional camp legislation.
Recruiting/scouting services’
camps/clinics
May not be employed if recruiting/scouting
service is involved; or
• If it is established, sponsored or conducted by
a recruiting/scouting service.
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It is not permissible to employ
or give free or reduced
admissions to a PSA who is an
athletics award winner or is
being recruited by the
institution.
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May an institution employ a
four-year college SA that has
started the transfer process?
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A SA who has received written
permission to contact another NCAA
institution is considered a senior PSA.
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May not be employed at an institutional football
camp.
May not be employed if he or she is being
recruited by the institution or if he or she was a
athletics award winner (in sports other than
football).
Staff Interpretation [Reference: 5/2/11, Item No. a]
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SAs may be employed at:
• Own institution’s camps/clinics;
• Other institution’s camps/clinics;
• Noninstitutional camps/clinics;
and
• Bowl Subdivision Football
exception.
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Bowl Subdivision Football:
• May not be employed at own
institution’s football camp;
• One SA from any one institution may
be employed at a football camp/clinic
conducted by another institution;
• One SA from institution may work at
any diversified sports camp/clinic.
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Employment considerations:
• Must perform general supervisory duties
in addition to any coaching or officiating
assignments.
• Paid the going rate for like ability.
• May not be paid based on skill level.
• May not be paid if only lecturing/
demonstrating.
• May not conduct own camp/clinic.
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An institution may employ a high
school, preparatory school or twoyear college coach or any other
individual responsible for teaching
or directing an activity in which a
PSA is involved at its camp or clinic
provided:
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The individual receives
compensation at the going rate for
like ability and experience;
Not paid on the basis of the value of
his or her reputation or contact with
PSAs.
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October 2009 – Board of Directors provided
the enforcement staff with interpretive
authority for certain issues in men’s
basketball.
Educational column [Reference: 10/27/11]
April 2012 – Board approved transfer of
authority to Academic and Membership
Affairs (AMA).
Effective June 15.
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In order to ensure consistency, AMA
will:
• Apply rationale supporting Board’s
October 2009 actions;
• Provide responses based on
established precedent; and
• Confer with enforcement services
on cases of first impression.
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Shall not employ a speaker at any
institutional basketball camp/clinic who:
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Is involved in coaching PSAs.
Is associated with a PSA as a result of the PSA’s
participation in basketball.
Prohibition also includes, but not limited
to:
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Coaches’ clinics.
Camps/clinics involving only non-PSAs.
Any athletics activity.
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May not employ an individual
associated with a recruited SA at
the institution’s camp or clinic.
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Cannot host, sponsor or conduct a
nonscholastic basketball practice or
competition on its campus or at an offcampus facility regularly uses by the
institution for practice and/or
competition by any of the institution’s
sports programs.
Bylaw 13.11.1.8
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Exceptions:
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State multisport events.
Other events provide one of the following is
met:
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Event is open and all participating men’s
basketball PSAs reside within a 50-mile radius of
the institution’s campus;
Event is part of a program consistent with the
mission of the institution and conducted in
accordance with Bylaw 13.11.3.2; or
Event is an ancillary event that is part of a
nonathletics program and is conducted in
accordance with Bylaw 13.11.3.2.
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Noninstitutional camps/clinics
involving PSAs on an institution’s
campus are limited to June, July, and
August.
Bylaw 13.11.1.9
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Adoption of Proposal No. 2011-45
provides same restriction in men’s
basketball to women’s basketball;
Evaluations at nonscholastic events and
noninstitutional camps or clinics that
occur on a Division I campus during
evaluation periods are prohibited.
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Proposal No. 2011-46;
Cannot host, sponsor or conduct a nonscholastic
football practice or competition on campus or at an
off-campus facility regularly used by the institution for
practice and/or competition by any of the institution's
sport programs;
Noninstitutional camps or clinics involving PSAs held
on campus are limited to:
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June and July in FBS; and
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June, July, and August in FCS.
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A nonscholastic event is defined
based on the entity or person
conducting the event, not by the event
participants.
An event is not a scholastic event
simply because the participating
teams are high school teams but
rather whether a scholastic entity is
operating the event.
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Who or what organization contacted the
institution or contest facility to schedule
the event?
Who or what organization will be
signing the facility rental agreement?
Who or what organization will be
responsible for insuring the event?
Who or what organization will be
advertising or promoting the event?