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The new Manuals are here, the new Manuals are here!

The 2007-08 NCAA Division I Manual just landed on my desk with a slightly softer thump (440 pages compared to the current 460). It's got some new fonts (kind of a refreshing change) and—get this—an index.

Jul 31, 2007 1:05 PM

ARS blanket waiver--practice during temporary certification period

This just in:

NCAA Division I Bylaws 12.1.1.1.3.1 (temporary certification -- recruited student-athlete) and 12.1.1.1.3.1.2 (temporary certification -- nonrecruited student-athlete). July August 1, 2007. The NCAA Division I Management Council Administrative Review Subcommittee approved a blanket waiver to permit, for the 2007-08 academic year only, recruited and nonrecruited student-athletes to engage in countable athletically related activities, except for competition, beyond the 14-day and 45-day limits noted in Bylaws 12.1.1.1.3.1 and 12.1.1.1.3.1.2. Student-athletes who have requested final amateur certification and who are on the institution's Institutional Request List (IRL) may engage in countable athletically related activities, except for competition, until a final amateurism certification is completed, provided the student-athlete is otherwise eligible to practice (e.g., meets initial-eligibility requirements). The subcommittee noted that due to the high volume of cases that the Amateurism Certification Team is reviewing and the decision to process the fall sports first, it is likely that there will be delays in the certification of student-athletes who participate in winter or spring sports. Many of the winter and spring sports have permissible nonchampionship segment activities that may begin before all final certifications are completed. Further, the subcommittee noted that student-athletes may not compete until a final certification is complete and that those student-athletes who receive a final certification that prohibits them from practicing may not use this blanket waiver. The subcommittee noted a blanket waiver was appropriate to provide institutions flexibility while the Amateurism Certification Team manages a significant volume of cases during the first year of the process.

The NCAA website has a full list of ARS blanket waivers.

Jul 31, 2007 9:03 AM

Staff decision on correspondence with prospects

Not to be outdone by LRIS's recent flurry of activity, the staff has made a July 18, 2007, determination about (to quote from the interp's title): Institutional Staff Members Preparing and Sending General Correspondence and Necessary Pre-enrollment Information to Prospective Student-Athletes.

The membership services staff determined the following regarding institutional staff members preparing and sending general correspondence and necessary pre-enrollment information to prospective student-athletes:

(1) Noncoaching staff members who are identified as permissible callers in the legislation are permitted to prepare and send general correspondence to prospective student-athletes, subject to the time period restrictions set forth in the recruiting materials legislation. The limitations applicable to those noncoaching staff members' permissible telephone calls also govern their preparation and sending of general correspondence.

and

(2) Any institutional staff member is permitted to prepare and send necessary pre-enrollment information to a prospective student-athlete who has signed a National Letter of Intent or financial aid agreement or has been officially accepted for enrollment.

[References: NCAA Division I Bylaws 11.7.1.2 (recruiting coordination functions), 13.1.3.4.1 (institutional staff members -- general rule), 13.1.3.4.1.1 (exceptions) and 13.4.1.1 (printed recruiting materials) and a 3/30/2006 official interpretation, Item Ref. 1.]

Jul 20, 2007 10:07 AM

LRIS on aid and text messaging

LRIS has issued three new interps, dated June 13 and July 11, 2007:

Providing Financial Aid to the Children of Members of an Institution's Letterman's Club. (I)

Date Issued: Jun 13, 2007

The committee determined that it is not permissible for an institution to award financial aid through a scholarship program available only to children of members of an institution's letterman's club, even if individuals other than former student-athletes are members of the letterman's club (e.g., former student-managers, cheerleaders). [References: NCAA Bylaws 13.2.1 (general regulation), 15.02.4.1 (institutional financial aid), 16.02.3 (extra benefit) and 16.11.2.1 (general rule)]

Use of Service or Software that Converts Electronic Mail into a Text Message. (I)

Date Issued: Jul 11, 2007

The committee determined that it is not permissible for institutional staff members to use a service or software that converts electronic mail (e.g., e-mail) sent by an institutional staff member into a text message when received by the prospect. [References: NCAA Bylaw 13.4.1.2 and NCAA Proposal No. 2006-40]

Eligibility of Four-Year Transfer Student for Institutional Athletically Related Financial Aid. (I)

Date Issued: Jul 11, 2007

The committee determined that a four-year transfer student-athlete may receive institutional athletically related financial aid during his or her first academic year at the certifying institution regardless of whether he or she would have been academically eligible to compete during the next regular academic term at the previous institution, provided:

a. The student-athlete transferred from a four-year institution that did not sponsor the sport on the intercollegiate level while the student-athlete was in attendance, provided the student had never transferred from any other collegiate institution that offered intercollegiate competition in that particular sport; or

b. The student-athlete never competed in intercollegiate competition and did not engage in other countable athletically related activities in the sport beyond a 14-consecutive day period. [References: NCAA Bylaws 14.5.5.2.6.1 and 14.5.5.4]

Jul 20, 2007 9:56 AM

Get your Board agenda

The agenda for the Board of Directors' August 9 meeting is out.

Jul 17, 2007 11:43 AM

Another meeting report is out

The report of the June meeting of the Championships/Competition Cabinet is out.

Jul 16, 2007 4:39 PM

Envelopes matter

The NCAA staff interp about note card envelopes that has been circulating verbally is now in writing:

Content Restrictions on Envelopes Used to Send Institutional Note Cards. (I)

Date Issued: Jun 27, 2007

Type: Staff Interpretation

The membership services staff determined that the restrictions governing institutional note cards also apply to the envelopes used to send the note card(s). Therefore, an envelope used to send a note card may only contain the institution’s name and logo (in addition to the postage and addressee information) on the outside, must be blank on the inside when produced, and may not exceed 8 1/2 by 11 inches. [References: NCAA Division I Bylaw 13.4.1.1 (printed recruiting materials)]

Jul 13, 2007 5:10 PM

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