The following official incorporations approved by the Division I Management Council or the Academics/Eligibility/
Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations will be reflected in the 2001-02 Division I Manual. Bold type indicates new wording; italicized type indicates wording removed.

No. 1 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Voluntary Athletically Related Activities

Bylaws: Amend 17.02, by adding new 17.02.13, page 224, as follows

"17.02.13 Voluntary Athletically Related Activities. In order for any athletically related activity to be considered 'voluntary,' all of the following conditions must be met:

"(a) The student-athlete must not be required to report back to a coach or other athletics department staff member (for example, strength coach, trainer, manager) any information related to the activity. In addition, no athletics department staff member who observes the activity (for example, strength coach, trainer, manager) may report back to the student-athlete's coach any information related to the activity;

"(b) The activity must be initiated and requested solely by the student-athlete. Neither the institution nor any athletics department staff member may require the student-athlete to participate in the activity at any time. However, it is permissible for an athletics department staff member to provide information to student-athletes related to available opportunities for participating in voluntary activities (for example, times when the strength and conditioning coach will be on duty in the weight room or on the track). In addition, for student-athletes who have initiated a request to engage in voluntary activities, the institution or an athletics department staff member may assign specific times for student-athletes to use institutional facilities for such purposes and inform the student-athletes of the times in advance;

"(c) The student-athlete's attendance and participation in the activity (or lack thereof) may not be recorded for the purpose of reporting such information to coaching staff members or other student-athletes; and

"(d) The student-athlete may not be subject to penalty if he or she elects not to participate in the activity. In addition, neither the institution nor any athletics department staff member may provide recognition or incentives (e.g., awards) to a student-athlete based on his or her attendance or performance in the activity.

"[Note: Coaching staff members may be present during permissible skill-related instruction requested by the student-athlete pursuant to Bylaw 17.1.5.2.1]"

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council (04/10/01).

No. 2 Recruiting-Highlight Films/Video Tapes/Audio Tapes

Bylaws: Amend 13.4.2.1, pages 101-102, as follows:

13.4.2.1 Highlight Film/Videotape/Audio Tape. An institution may show a highlight film/videotape/audio tape to a prospect or the prospect's coach but may not send it to or leave it with the prospect or coach. Highlight films/
videotapes/audio tapes are "game clips" that contain informational material that is related to a particular event or sports season. Highlight films/videotapes/audio tapes may include only clips of actual athletics contests and activities that occur on the day of the contest that are directly related to the contest (for example, pregame player introductions, halftime band and cheerleader performances, locker-room talks, crowd reactions, sideline coaching staff activities, postgame on-field award presentations). The highlight film may not include clips of other activities that are only indirectly related to the contests (for example, team travel, team meals, entertainment activities, practice activities, institutional facilities). Any narration on the highlight film/
videotape/audio tape must relate specifically to the event or sports season.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (September 20, 2000, Item No. 2)

No. 3 Recruiting -- Banquets
and Meetings

Bylaws: Amend by 13.1.9, pages 98-99, as follows:

[13.1.9-(a) unchanged.]

(b) Basketball

[13.1.9-(b)-(1) unchanged.]

(2) Outside a contact period. A member of the basketball coaching staff may speak at a meeting or banquet outside the recruiting contact periods (except for dead periods per Bylaw 13.02.4.4), provided:

(i) The meeting or banquet is initiated and conducted by the educational institution;

[13.1.9-(b)-(2)-(i) through 13.1.9-(b)-(2)-(iii) renumbered as 13.1.9-(b)-(2)-(ii) through 13.1.9-(b)-(2)-(iv), unchanged.]

(c) Football

[13.1.9-(c)-(1) unchanged]

(1) Outside a Contact Period. In Division I-A and I-AA football, a member of the football coaching staff may speak at a meeting or banquet outside the contact period (except for the dead periods per Bylaw 13.02.4.4), provided:

(i) The meeting or banquet is initiated and conducted by the educational institution;

[13.1.9-(c)-(2)-(i) through 13.1.9-(c)-(2)-(iii) renumbered as 13.1.9-(b)-(2)-(ii) through 13.1.9-(c)-(2)-(iv), unchanged.]

[Remainder of 13.1.9. unchanged.]

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (November 29, 2000, Item No. 1)

No. 4 Amateurism -- Youth Teams

Bylaws: Amend 12.6.1.8, page 84, as follows:

12.6.1.8 Youth Teams. An individual may participate on a youth team, including a team consisting of prospects, sponsored by a professional sports team or organization without jeopardizing intercollegiate eligibility in that sport, provided the following conditions are met:

(a) The youth team must otherwise be an amateur team; and

(b) Sponsorship fees provided to the team are or earmarked for a particular individual. ; and

(c) The team is not controlled, owned or operated to any extent by a professional team or organization.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (September 6, 2000, Item No. 2)

No. 5 Ethical Conduct -- Academic Fraud Violations

Bylaws: Amend by 10.1, page 53, as follows:

Unethical conduct by a prospective or enrolled student-athlete or a current or former institutional staff member (for example, coach, professor, tutor, teaching assistant, student manager, student athletic trainer) may include, but is not limited to, the following:

[10.1-(a) through 10.1-(e) unchanged.]

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (September 6, 2000, Item No. 3 and December 13, 2000, Item No. 3)

No. 6 Eligibility -- Hardship Waiver

A. Bylaws: Amend 14.2.4.3.2, page 139, as follows:

14.2.4.3.2 Medical Documentation. Contemporaneous or other appropriate medical documentation, from a physician (that is, a medical doctor) who administered care at the time of the injury or illness, that establishes the student-athlete's inability to compete as a result of that injury or illness shall be submitted with any hardship-waiver request.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (November 15, 2000, Item No. 1)

No. 7 Medical Expenses -- Summer Conditioning Activities

Bylaws: Amend 16.4.1, page 207, as follows:

16.4.1 Permissible. Identified medical expense benefits incidental to a student's participation in intercollegiate athletics that may be financed by the institution are:

[16.4.1-(a) through 16.4.1-(k) unchanged

(l) Medical expenses (including rehabilitation and physical therapy expenses) for a student-athlete who sustains an injury while participating in voluntary conditioning activities during the summer that are conducted by an institution's strength and conditioning coach with department-wide duties.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (May 17, 2000, Item No. 4)

No. 8 Recruiting --Telephone Calls/Pagers

Bylaws: Amend by 13.02.13, page 89, as follows:

13.02.13 Telephone Calls. Facsimiles and other electronically transmitted correspondence shall not be considered telephone calls. Prearranged electronically transmitted correspondence between an authorized institutional staff member and one or more prospects and any electronic correspondence sent by "instant messenger" or similar means shall be considered a telephone call. The use of a pager to contact a prospect is considered a telephone call. If a pager permits a text message to be displayed, an institutional staff member who leaves a message in excess of a greeting is considered to have made a telephone contact.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (June 21, 2000, Item No. 3)

No. 9 Recruiting -- Local
Sports Clubs

Bylaws: Amend 13.12.2.3, page 114, as follows:

13.12.2.3 Local Sports Clubs. In sports other than basketball, an institution's coach may be involved as a participant or in instructional or coaching activities in the same sport for a local sports club or organization located in the institution's home community, provided all prospects participating in said activities are legal residents of the area (within a 50-mile radius of the institution). In all sports, an institution's coach may be involved as a participant or in instructional or coaching activities in a sport other than the coach's sport for a local sports club or organization located in the institution's home community, provided all prospects participating in said activities are legal residents of the area (within a 50-mile radius of the institution). Further in club activities involving multiple teams or multiple sports, the 50-mile radius is only applicable to the team with which the institution's coach is involved; however, it is not permissible for the coach to assign a prospect who lives outside the 50-mile area to another coach of the club. A coach also may be involved in activities with individuals who are not of prospect age (that is, before the ninth grade), regardless of where such individuals reside.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (May 17, 2000, Item No. 3)

No. 10 Recruiting --Telephone Calls/Pagers

Bylaws: Amend by 13.02.13, page 89, as follows:

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (March 9, 2000, Item No. 2)

No. 11 Recruiting -- Spring
Football Evaluations

A. Bylaws: Amend 13.1.8, page 96, as follows:

B. Bylaws: Amend 30.11.3, page 386, as follows:

30.11.3 Football. The following contact and evaluation periods shall apply to football:

[30.11.3-(a) through 30.11.3-(e) unchanged.]

(f) Four weeks (excluding Memorial Day and Sundays) during May 1 April 15 through April 15 May 31 selected at the discretion of the member institution and designated in writing in the office of the director of athletics [as provided in (1) below]:

[Remainder of 30.11.3 unchanged.]

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (March 9, 2000, Item No. 1)

No. 12 Financial Aid -- Basketball/Summer
Before Enrollment

Bylaws: Amend 15.2.7.1.3, page 184, as follows:

(a) The recipient shall be admitted to the awarding member institution in accordance with regular, published entrance requirements;

[Remainder of 15.2.7.1.3 unchanged.]

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (May 17, 2000, Item No. 6)

No. 13 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Exempted Contests

[Note: This modification should be made, as appropriate, to various bylaws within Bylaw 17.]

Bylaws: Amend 17.__.5.3, page 234, as follows:

(j) U.S. National Team. One game played against any a U.S. national team as selected and designated by the appropriate national governing body in baseball as a U.S. national team (for example, "Under-21 U.S. National Team").

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (January 28, 2000, Item No. 1)

No. 14 Contest Exemptions --
Certified Events

A. Bylaws: Amend 30.10.1.2, page 378, as follows:

B. Bylaws: Amend 30.10.2.2, page 380, as follows:

C. Bylaws: Amend 30.10.3.2, page 381, as follows:

30.10.3.2 Sponsoring Agency. The sponsoring organization shall be either an active or an affiliated member of the Association. For exempted events in Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico, the sponsoring agency must be an active or provisional NCAA member located in that state or territory. If a sponsoring agency wishes to conduct a certified event in a U.S. state or territory outside of the contiguous 48 states (for example, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands), all competition in the event must take place within such state or territory.

D. Bylaws: Amend 30.10.4.2, page 382, as follows:

30.10.4.2 Sponsoring Agency. The sponsoring organization shall be either an active or an affiliated member or a member conference of the Association. An institution that is a sponsoring organization must conduct the sport of basketball on the intercollegiate level. For events in Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico, the sponsoring agency must be an active or provisional NCAA member located in that state or territory. If a sponsoring agency wishes to conduct a certified event in a U.S. state or territory outside of the contiguous 48 states (for example, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands), all competition in the event must take place within such state or territory.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (June 6, 2000, Item No. 3)

No. 15 Recruiting -- Contacts

Bylaws: Amend 13.02.3, page 86, as follows:

13.02.3 Contact. A contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospect or the prospect's parents, relatives or legal guardian(s) and an institutional staff member or athletics representative during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting. Any such face-to-face encounter that is prearranged, that occurs via video conference or that takes place on the grounds of the prospect's educational institution or at the site of organized competition or practice involving the prospect or the prospect's high-school, preparatory school, two-year college or all-star team shall be considered a contact, regardless of the conversation that occurs.

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council [July 25, 2000, Item No. 9-c-(2)-(a)]

No. 16 Recruiting -- Electronic Mail Attachments

Bylaws: Amend 13.4.1, page 100, as follows:

[13.4.1-(a) through 13.4.1-(c) unchanged.]

[Remainder of 13.4.1 unchanged.]