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Archives Archive February 2009
Not in person, not virtually, either
A new staff interp, binding on everyone:
Video of Nonscholastic Activities through a Subscription to a Recruiting or Scouting Service (I)
Date Published: February 25, 2009
Type: Staff Interpretation
The academic and membership affairs staff determined that it is not permissible for an institution to obtain video (e.g., live streaming video, recorded video) of any nonscholastic activities, including regular game and all-star competition, or any summer camp or clinic competition, through a subscription to a recruiting or scouting service.
[References: NCAA Bylaws 12.3.3 (athletics scholarship agent) and 13.14.3.2 (video services), official interpretation (4/2/87, Item No. 6) and staff interpretation (4/25/88, item d), which has been archived.]
Coaches certification practice test availability
The NCAA sent word today that the 2009-10 Coaches Certification Practice Test will be available beginning on March 27 (not February 27, as previously erroneously stated). The Coaches Certification Test will be available beginning May 4.
Art imitates life
If you were channel surfing Sunday night you might have stumbled across Cold Case. Last night's episode ("Glory Days": Lilly and the team re-open the 1973 case of a murdered football player) involved steroids and (spoiler-warning) an out-of-control booster.
So how many NCAA violations did you spot?
If your answer is zero, admit it: You were watching the post-Oscars parties instead, weren't you?
Tweet
From experience, we know that the worlds of compliance and high-tech usually collide at the corner of I-Don't-Get-How-This-Works Avenue and How-The-Hell-Am-I-Going-To-Monitor-This Boulevard.
So we decided to see what all the fuss was about and get a Twitter account for the Pac-10 Compliance Corner.
Though Twitter can be a lot of things to a lot of people, in brief, Twitter is a way to answer the question: "What Are You Doing?". You post a message (called a tweet) and people who have chosen to follow you see it. In that regard, it's no different than posting something on a website or updating your status on your Facebook wall.
Twitter has some instant-messaging like features (which give compliance folks heartburn), but we're not going to get into those at the moment. We'll have more to say on all this soon.
For now, you can join in the fun by:
(1) Signing up and
(2) Following us. We're known as Pac10Compliance. Just click the Follow button on the page that appears once you've signed up.
The easiest way to keep track of All Things Twitter is with a dedicated application on your computer. That way, you're not running back to your Twitter home page to check for updates, an enormous time suck.
You can Google for various applications that do this. On the Mac, we use Twitteriffic from IconFactory, which, not so coincidentally, has an iPhone version as well. Both are free (with ads) and you can pay for an ad-free version.
Editorial revisions a-plenty
We've added nine editorial revisions (ER 2008-24 through -27 and ER-2009-1 through -5) to the 2008-09 NCAA Manual to our Manual Updates page. We still can't link to the actual language on LSDBi, regrettably.
The hits just keep on coming
More requests for noncontroversial/emergency legislation:
• Permit compensation of participants in institution-based student-athlete only research studies under certain conditions. (From the Administration Cabinet)
• Provide an exception to the dead period surrounding the fall initial NLI signing date when the dead period occurs during the North American Cup Fencing Championship. (From the Recruiting Cabinet)
• In women's ice hockey, (1) prohibit telephone calls and contacts until July 7 after a prospect's junior year of high school and (2) prohibit the one permissible telephone call to a prospect who is a resident of a foreign country until July 7 after a prospect's junior year of high school. (From the Recruiting Cabinet)
LSDBi keeps improving
New on the menu: A multi-search feature and the ability for institutions to view previously submitted waivers and student-athlete reinstatement requests.
YAP
The Academic Cabinet has added Proposal 2008-77-1 to the mix. All it does is provide a waiver opportunity when academic information about the initial-eligibility status of JC transfers is not available. The Cabinet would have the authority to authorize waivers of the submission requirement, would establish the process for granting such waivers, and would monitor the waivers requested and granted.