April Rules Ed
• Agenda
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Immediate Legislation
Outside Funds
Promotional Activities
Audits
• Phone Logs/Recruits
• Comply & Verify / Jump Forward
– IRL
• Graduation
• Amatuerism questionnaire
– Equipment Release Form
– Coaches Exam Summer
New Legislation
Effective Immediately
• 11.7.4.3.1 Exception- Basketball – July
Evaluation Periods.
– During the July evaluation periods, a replaced
coach is not required to return to the
institution’s campus before engaging in
additional recruiting activities, provided no
more than three coaches engage in offcampus recruiting activities each day.
New Legislation
Effective Immediately
• 12.1.2.4.2 Exception for Prize Money for Student
Athletes- Outside the Playing Season During the
Summer Vacation Period- Individual Sports.
– In individual sports, a student athlete may accept prize money
based on his or her place finish or performance in an open athletics
event (an event that is not invitation only), provided the competition
occurs outside the institution's declared playing and practice season
during the institution’s summer vacation period. Such prize money
may not exceed actual and necessary expenses and may be
provided only by the sponsor of the open event. The calculation of
actual and necessary expenses shall not include the expenses or
fees of anyone other than the student-athlete (e.g. coach’s fees or
expenses, parent’s expenses).
New Legislation
Effective Immediately
• 13.02.11.2 Institutional Orientation Session
– A recruited prospective student-athlete who has
signed a NLI and has reported to an institutional
orientation session that is open to all incoming
students within 14 calendar days prior to the opening
day of classes of a regular academic year term shall
not be subject to the contact restrictions of Bylaw 13
and shall be considered a student-athlete for
purposed of Bylaw 16 as of the opening day of the
orientation session.
New Legislation
Effective Immediately
• 13.2.8 Medical Expenses– In sports other than Football, an institution
may finance medical expenses for a PSA who
sustains an injury while participating in
voluntary summer workouts conducted by an
institution’s strength and conditional coach
with department wide duties.
New Legislation
Effective Immediately
• 13.11.3.10 Voluntary Summer Conditioning –
Sports other than Football and Basketball.
– A PSA may engage in voluntary summer workouts
with a strength coach and may receive workout
apparel (on an issuance and retrieve basis) provided
he or she is enrolled in the summer term prior to the
student’s initial full-time enrollment at the certifying
institution.
– 13.11.3.10.1 Mandatory Medical Examination
• Prior to voluntary lifting or conditioning, a PSA who will be a
first time participant is required to undergo a medical exam
which must have been administered within six months prior
to participation.
New Legislation
Effective Immediately
• 17.4.2 (b) Baseball Practice Championship
Segment.
– Cannot commence practice sessions prior to the first
Friday that is three weeks prior to the first permissible
contest date for the championship segment.
• 17.4.3 (b) Baseball Competition Championship
Segment.
– Cannot play its first contest prior to the Friday in
February that is 14 weeks before the Friday
immediately preceding Memorial Day.
New Legislation
Effective Immediately
• 17.27.7 Track Safety Exception
– A coach may be present during voluntary
workouts in our practice facility when the SA
are engaged in field events, jumping hurdles,
or the jumping element of the steeplechase.
The coach may provided safety or skill
instruction but may not conduct the
individual’s workout.
New Legislation
Effective Immediately
• 30.10.4 Softball recruiting periods:
– (a) August 1st through the day prior to
Thanksgiving day (except for (1) below)
• (1) Monday-Thursday of the NLI week (Dead
period)
Outside Funds
• DO NOT DO THIS!
– Parent operating fund was supporting:
• Travel
• Meals
• Gifts
– Four parents of current players revealed that many had contributed to the fund to
defray the cost of meals for the team and purchase photo albums, frames,
fleeces and blankets for graduating seniors. The fund was also used to purchase
a team tent for games.
– “The problem with an outside account is that completely innocent purchases
appear to be improper because you can’t account for the funds,” Miller said. “If
you can’t account for funds, it creates the impression that there were no receipts
and no checks. We need to make sure athletes receive no extra benefits. We
need to know what the athletic funds are used for.” – AD Quote
Outside Funds
• The Principle of Institutional Control and Responsibility
– It is the responsibility of each member institution to control its intercollegiate
athletics program in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Association.
The institution's president or chancellor is responsible for the administration of all
aspects of the athletics program, including approval of the budget and audit of all
expenditures.
• Rules about Meals/Travel/Gifts
– Parents may not pay for any benefits for the team. The team
must use budgeted money for all expenses.
• Parents Want to Pay?
– Have them write a check to Villanova Athletics
– Give to Brian Murray
– Will go into the overall Athletic Fund
Promotional Activities
• A S/A is not eligible if:
– They permit their name or picture to
advertise, recommend, or promote a
commercial product or service
– They endorse a product through their
use of the product
– Don’t ignore a request!
Recruiting Compliance
• Recruit File Audits will begin June 1st.
– Please schedule a time
– Must be completed by July 31st
• Comply & Verify vs. Jump Forward
– Programs to track PSA phone calls
– Running in Fall 2009
Eligibility Center
• Please give us any remaining PSA’s to
add to your IRL.
• Encourage Senior PSA’s to send in final
transcripts and proof of graduation ASAP.
• Seniors should log in and complete the
amateurism questionnaire.
Scholarship Request Forms
• Due May 15th
Practice Logs
•March and April are due!
Coaches Exam
• May 20th (Wed) 10:00 am
– Compliance Meeting
• Go over new legislation on the test
• Test Dates
– May 27 or 28?
– June 1st
– June 18th 10:00 am
– June 29th?