Archives Archive December 2006
Local sports clubs and national team tryouts
LRIC has weighed in on two vexing issues:
November 29:
Application of "Legal Resident" to Involvement with a Local Sports Club. (I) The committee confirmed 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)]
October 18:
Official National Team Tryouts and the National Team Exception to the Outside Competition Regulation. (I) The committee determined that in order for a student-athlete to use the U.S. National Team exception to the outside competition regulations to participate as a member of an outside team in an official national team or junior national team tryout, the official tryout must be one in which athletes are directly selected to a national team or are required to participate in order to qualify for a subsequent event from which participants will be named to a national team or junior national team that will represent their nation in international competition. The exception is applicable to an official tryout that is structured as a series of events in which athletes must participate in each event (or at least one event in each level) of the series in order to be selected to the national team. The exception does not apply to events in which athletes are only identified for further evaluation at unrelated events for a future national team. For example, the exception applies to an official tryout in which athletes must participate in event A in order to participate in event B (or in one of several events at the event A level in order to participate at the event B level), and participants in event B are selected to the national team that will participate in international competition; however the exception does not apply to participation in event A if athletes are not selected to the national team or if participation in event A (or other events on the same level) is not required for participation in event B. [References: NCAA Bylaws 14.7.3.1-(d) (U.S. National Team) and 30.8.1 (national-team criteria)].
Credit-hour requirements interp
LRIS also had this to say on November 15 about credit-hour requirements:
Credit-Hour Requirement for a Student-Athlete Enrolled in Post-Baccalaureate or Graduate Program. (I) The committee determined that a student-athlete enrolled in a second baccalaureate degree or graduate program must successfully complete six degree-applicable hours in order to satisfy the requirement of completing six semester or quarter hours of academic credit during each regular academic term of full-time enrollment. Further, the committee confirmed that a nondegree-seeking graduate student may complete credits that would apply to any graduate-degree program offered by the certifying institution in order to satisfy the six-hour requirement. [Reference: Division I Bylaws 14.4.3.1-(c) (fulfillment of credit-hour requirements) and 14.4.3.5-(c) (exceptions to progress-toward-degree rule - nonrecruited, nonparticipant)]
Darkness is Cheap
We have a reminder in the Tools area about the basketball dead period that surrounds Christmas Day.
"Darkness is Cheap?" Look it up.
Revisions to DION
The NCAA has posted its list of revisions to legislation contained in the Division I Official Notice.
Hardship waivers and scrimmages
An October 11, 2006, LRIS interp that showed up today on LSDBi:
Inclusion of Scrimmages and Exhibitions in Hardship Waiver Calculation (I) The committee determined that scrimmages and exhibitions may be excluded from the hardship waiver calculation only if specific provisions for such contests exist in the sport’s playing and practice season regulations. [Reference: NCAA Division I Bylaw 14.2.4]
MSi video on amateurism certification
There's a new MSi video
that focuses on the Amateurism Certification Process. (Windows Media
Player required.)
Amateurism Clearinghouse goes live
The amateurism component of the NCAA's Initial-Eligibility
Clearinghouse goes live today. And to everyone who has to work with it:
May the Force Be With You.
Handbook Update 1
2006-07
Pac-10 Handbook Update 1 includes all pages of the Pac-10 Constitution, Bylaws,
Compliance & Enforcement Regulations, Administrative Rules, and
Sports Regulations that have been amended by the CEO Group or Council
since the printing of the 2006-07 Pac-10 Handbook in August 2006. If
you keep your Handbook in a loose-leaf binder (like we do), you can
simply print the file back-to-back on a copier (and, preferably, on a
different color of paper), and replace the old Handbook pages with
these revised ones. If you don't take the back-to-back route, you can
print all the pages on single sheets, and discard any that do not have
a shaded box ("Updated 12/4/06") at the bottom.
Or, if you want the Handbook with the updated pages melded in, download the 2006-07 Handbook v1.1 (2.1 MB).
Women's volleyball dead period
A reminder
about the upcoming women's volleyball dead period that surrounds the
NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship and extends to the end
of the calendar year.
Two new EdCols
Two Educational Columns appeared on LSDBi today: one dealing with
the participation
of non-coaching staff members in practice, the other with expenses
for individuals associated with a prospect's competition prior to
enrollment.