LRIS earns its money
LSDBi lists 11--count 'em--11 interps from LRIS as a result of a December in-person meeting. Some are pretty interesting and get to issues surrounding recruiting coordination functions. Read more...
Archives Archive January 2007
Update your Manual
We've added legislation that was adopted in January and that has an immediate effective date to our NCAA Manual Updates page.
NLI dead period reminders
The Tools area contains reminders about the dead period next week in football, soccer, field hockey, and men's water polo that surrounds the initial date (February 7) for signing a National Letter of Intent.
Adios Clearinghouse
The NCAA has announced the creation of an NCAA Eligibility Center that will bring the initial-eligibility and amateurism certification functions together under one roof beginning later this year.
Amateurism Clearinghouse video
The NCAA has posted another video which features a question and answer session on the amateurism certification process.
Residence revisited
At its January meeting, the Management Council took a look at a recent LRIC interp pertaining to legal residence and local sports clubs and changed LRIC's confirmation into a determination--meaning it applies prospectively only. The updated official interp (1/7/07):
The NCAA Division I Management Council determined that for purposes of the application of the local sports clubs legislation, a prospective student-athlete who relocates to within a 50-mile radius of an institution on a temporary basis (e.g., to participate on a club team or attend an institution while maintaining a permanent residence outside of the 50-mile radius) is not a "legal resident of the area" of the institution regardless of whether the prospect meets a legal standard of state or local residency for governmental purposes. Therefore, an institution's coach may not be involved with a local sports club team in the coach's sport that includes such a prospect. [References: NCAA Division I Bylaw 13.11.2.3 (local sports clubs)]
Convention update
As you may have heard, the override of Proposal 2005-054 succeeded--with 70% of Division I favoring the override, with only 30% opposed to it. Even though the proposal has been overridden and will disappear when the 2007-08 NCAA Manual is printed, in order to maintain a consistent application of the rule through the 2006-07 academic year, NCAA 14.1.9.1 will remain in effect for student-athletes who have transferred or plan to transfer during the 2006-07 academic year.
Student-athletes who transfer on or after August 1, 2007, will be subject to the legislation in place prior to the adoption of Proposal 2005-054.
The attempt to override the Board's decision to defeat Proposal 2005-128 (which would have allowed FCS members to play 12 football games every season) failed, with only 48% of that subdivision favoring the override.
The NCAA has also posted a brief story about the Management Council's legislative action. More to come after today's Board of Directors meeting.
EdCol--Team fundraising activities
LSDBi has an educational column about student-athlete involvement in team fundraising activities subsequent to enrollment.
And it's on to January
Looks like there were no override requests received for the following proposals by Christmas Day, so they've completed their legislative journey: • Adopted Proposals 2006-033*, 2006-059*, 2006-099*, 2006-109*, 2006-114*, 2006-115*, 2006-116*, 2006-117*, 2006-118*, 2006-119*, 2006-122*, 2006-123*. *--effective immediately • Defeated Proposal 2005-097.