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- What should a student-athlete know about promotional and community service activities?
All charitable, educational and nonprofit promotional activities involving student-athletes must have prior approval from the Compliance Office. Student-Athletes are not permitted to be involved in the advertisement, recommendation or promotion of sales or use of a commercial product or service of any kind.
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What are the NCAA rules regarding gambling?
The NCAA prohibits student-athletes or Athletics Department staff members from knowingly providing information to individuals involved in organized gambling activities concerning intercollegiate athletics competition. In addition, student-athletes or Athletics Department staff members may not solicit a bet on any intercollegiate team or accept a bet on any gambling activity involving intercollegiate and professional athletics through a bookmaker, parley card, or any other method employed by organized gambling.
- Who is a prospective student-athlete?
A prospect is any student who has started the ninth grade. In addition, a student who has not started ninth grade classes becomes a prospective student-athlete if the institution provides the individual (or the individual's relatives or friends) any financial assistance or other benefits that the institution does not generally provide to prospective students. Student-athletes enrolled in preparatory or two-year colleges are also considered prospective student-athletes.
- When does a prospect become a student-athlete?
A prospect becomes a student-athlete only when he/she attends their first day of class or reports for an intercollegiate squad that is under the jurisdiction of the athletics department, not after they sign the National Letter of Intent.
- What is a contact?
Contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospect or the prospect's relatives and an institutional staff member or athletic representative where any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting. Any face-to-face encounter that is prearranged or takes place on the grounds of the prospect's high school or site of organized competition or practice involving the prospect's high school, preparatory school, two-year college, or all-star team is considered a contact regardless of the conversation that occurs.
- What is the definition of recruiting
Recruiting is any solicitation of a prospect or a prospect's relatives (or legal guardians) by an institutional staff member or by a representative of the institution's athletics interests for the purpose of securing the prospect's enrollment and ultimate participation in the institution's intercollegiate athletics programs.
- Can I let a student-athlete borrow my car?
No, that would be an extra benefit. An extra benefit is defined as any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative of the institution's athletics interests to provide a student-athlete or a student-athlete's relatives or friends a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. Receipt of a benefit by a student-athlete or their relatives or friends is not a violation of NCAA legislation if it is demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institution's students or their relatives or friends or to a particular segment of the student-body (e.g. international students) determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability.
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