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.

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(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.]