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 2002-03 Division I Manual. Bold type indicates new wording; italicized type indicates wording removed.

Bylaws: Amend 13.11.8.2.1, pages 113, as follows:

"13.11.8.2.1 One-Time Exception -- Announcement of Signings. An institution may make an announcement on the institution's campus for the sole purpose of presenting at one time to the media the names of all prospects who have accepted offers of admission and/or athletically related aid in a particular sport from that institution, with the understanding that no prospects (or their friends or relatives) may be in attendance. After the one-time announcement, it is permissible for an institution to release identical information to the media on future occasions through its normal media outlets (for example, media game notes, game program), provided any subsequent release does not include additional or updated information about any previously signed prospect(s)."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (02/07/01, Item No. 3).

No. 2 Recruiting -- Official Visits

Bylaws: Amend by 13.7.1.3, page 105, as follows:

"13.7.1.3 Post High-School Visits. The one-visit limitation and the limitations on total official visits apply separately to the period in which the prospect is in high school and to the period beginning October 15 after the prospect's completion of high school. Thus, a prospect may be provided a maximum of 10 official visits -- five while in high school and five beginning October 15 after the prospect's completion of high school. A prospect is not required to graduate from high school in order to receive a permissible post high-school visit."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (03/04/01, Item No. 1).

No. 3 Summer Financial Aid -- Basketball/Before Initial Enrollment

Bylaws: Amend 15.2.7.1.3, page 184, as follows:

"15.2.7.1.3 Summer Financial Aid -- Before Initial, Full-Time Collegiate Enrollment -- Basketball. In the sport of basketball, it shall be permissible to award athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete (including a prospective student-athlete not certified by the NCAA Initial- Eligibility Clearinghouse as a qualifier) to attend an institution the summer before the prospective student's initial, full-time collegiate enrollment, provided:

[15.2.7.1.3-(a) through 15.2.7.1.3-(d) unchanged.]

"(e) Summer coursework is not used for the purpose of completing initial-eligibility (that is, prospects with learning disabilities) or continuing-eligibility (that is, transfer eligibility, satisfactory-progress) requirements."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (03/07/01, Item No. 3).

No. 4 Eligibility/Hardship Waiver

Bylaws: Amend by 14.2.4.3.5.1, page 140, as follows:

"14.2.4.3.5.1 Denominator in Percent Computation. The denominator in the institution's percent calculation shall be based on the institution's number of scheduled varsity contests or dates of competition [See Bylaw 14.2.4-(c).] as computed for playing and practice season purposes in Bylaw 17 for the applicable sport. (Note: Exempted events in Bylaw 17 are included in the percent calculation, except as provided in Bylaw 14.2.4.3.5.3.) An institution participating in a single-elimination event (for example, preseason NIT) may only count the actual contests in which the institution participates (as opposed to the number of contests scheduled in the event) in determining the number of scheduled contests in the denominator."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (05/09/01, Item No. 1).

No. 5 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Spring Football Practice

Bylaws: Amend 17.10.6, page 255, as follows:

"17.10.6 Out-of-Season Athletically Related Activities. Student-athletes and members of the coaching staff shall not engage in countable athletically related activities outside the playing season, except for the following:

[17.10.6-(a) unchanged.]

(b) Spring Practice. Fifteen postseason practice sessions [including intrasquad scrimmages and the spring game permitted in Bylaw 17.10.5.2-(a)] are permissible, provided they are conducted within a period of 29 consecutive calendar days, omitting vacation and examination days officially announced on the institution's calendar and days during which the institution is closed due to inclement weather. Any such practice sessions held during vacation days may not be of longer duration than those normally held when academic classes are in session. Only 12 of may involve contact, and such contact shall not occur prior to the third practice session. The noncontact practice sessions may involve headgear as the only piece of protective equipment. Of the 12 permissible contact sessions, eight sessions may involve tackling, and no more than three of the eight tackling sessions may be devoted primarily (greater than 50 percent of practice time) to 11-on-11 scrimmages. Tackling shall be prohibited in four of the 12 contact sessions. An institution has the discretion to determine the practice activities (other than tackling) that may occur during the four contact nontackling sessions as well as the protective equipment to be worn by the student-athletes. If an institution conducts a "spring game" per Bylaw 17.10.5.2-(a), the game shall be counted as one of the three sessions that can be devoted primarily to 11-on-11 scrimmages. The amount of time that a student-athlete may be involved in such postseason countable athletically related activities shall be limited to a maximum of four hours per day and 20 hours per week. An institution is not required to count as one of its 15 designated days any day during which countable athletically related activities are limited solely to required conditioning activities and/or review of game film."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (03/07/01, Item No. 1).

No. 6 Recruiting/Contact/On-Campus Athletics Events

Bylaws: Amend 13.1.7.2.2, pages 96, as follows:

"13.1.7.2.2 Athletics Events Outside Contact Period. In-person contact with a prospect shall not be made on or off the member institution's campus at the site of practice or competition for any athletics event in which the prospect participates outside the permissible contact periods in the sports of football and basketball. When a prospect in the sport of football or basketball participates in an athletics contest or event (including a noninstitutional, private camp or clinic) on a member institution's campus outside of a contact period, it is not permissible for an authorized institutional staff member to have contact with the prospect until the calendar day following his or her release from the competition. Further, if a prospect is visiting an institution's campus immediately before or after participating in an athletics contest or event on the institution's campus, the prospect must depart the locale of the institution the calendar day before or after the contest or event (see Bylaw 13.1.7)."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (June 6, 2001, Item No. 2).

No. 7 Recruiting -- Camps and Clinics

Bylaws: Amend by 13.13.1.3, pages 116-117, as follows:

"13.13.1.3 Recruiting Calendar Exceptions. The interaction during sports camps and sports clinics between prospects and those coaches employed by the camp or clinic is not subject to the recruiting calendar restrictions. However, an institutional staff member employed at any camp or clinic (for example, counselor, director) is prohibited from recruiting any prospect during the time period which the camp or clinic is conducted (that is, from the time the prospects reports to the camp or clinic until the conclusion of all camp activities). The prohibition against recruiting includes extending verbal or written offers of financial aid to any prospect during his or her attendance at the camp or clinic. Other coaches wishing to attend the camp as observers must comply with appropriate recruiting contact and evaluation periods. In addition, institutional camps or clinics may not be conducted during a dead period."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (June 20, 2001, Item No. 2).

No. 8 Recruiting -- Complimentary Admissions to Postseason or Conference Tournament

Bylaws: Amend by 13.9.1, page 110, as follows:

"13.9.1 Entertainment Restrictions. Entertainment of a high-school, college-preparatory school or two-year college coach or any other individual responsible for teaching or directing an activity in which a prospect is involved shall be confined to a member institution's campus and shall be limited to providing a maximum of two complimentary admissions (issued only through a pass list) to home athletics contests, which must be issued on an individual-game basis. Such entertainment shall not include food and refreshments, room expenses, or the cost of transportation to and from the campus. It is not permissible to provide complimentary admissions to any postseason competition (for example, NCAA championship, conference tournament, bowl game). An institutional coaching staff member is expressly prohibited from spending funds to entertain the prospect's coach on or off the member institution's campus."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review Interpretations (December 12, 2001, Item No. 1).

No. 9 Recruiting -- Evaluation Days -- Basketball

Bylaws: Amend Proposal 01-52 subparagraph-(h), as follows:

"13.1.8.4 Evaluation Days -- Basketball. In men's and women's basketball, each institution is limited to 40 evaluation days, per Bylaw 13.02.6.2 during evaluation periods that occur during the academic year. In men's basketball, each institution is limited to 70 evaluation days, per Bylaw 13.02.7. In men's basketball, institutional coaching staff members are restricted to evaluating only basketball activities that are part of a prospect's normal high-school, preparatory-school or two-year college season, and events that are approved, sanctioned, sponsored or conducted by the applicable state high-school association, National Federation of State High School Associations or the National Junior College Athletic Association evaluations at sites other than the prospect's educational institution are prohibited during the September contact period. Evaluations at a prospect's educational institution in conjunction with an off-campus contact remain permissible, but are not included in the 40 days. Evaluations during the April contact period are limited to events that are approved, sanctioned, sponsored or conducted by the applicable state high-school or two-year college association, National Federation of High School Associations or the National Junior College Athletic Association and may occur at sites other than the prospect's educational institution only on weekends (that is, Friday evening through Sunday). Evaluations during the April contact period are permissible at a prospect's educational institution only in conjunction with an off-campus contact. Such evaluations are not included in the 40 evaluation days."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (January 30, 2002, Item No. 1) and (February 21, 2002, Item No. 1).

No. 10 Eligibility -- Hardship Waiver

Bylaws: Amend 14.2.4, page 138-139, as follows:

"14.2.4 Hardship Waiver. A student-athlete may be granted an additional year of competition by the conference or the Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet for reasons of "hardship." Hardship is defined as an incapacity resulting from an injury or illness that has occurred under all of the following conditions:

(a) The incapacitating injury or illness occurs in one of the four seasons of intercollegiate competition at any two-year or four-year collegiate institution or occurs subsequent to the first day of classes his or her senior year of high school;

(b) The injury or illness occurs prior to the completion of the first half of the playing season that concludes with the NCAA championship in that sport (measured by the number of scheduled contests or dates of competition not exceeding the maximum limitations in each sport as set forth in Bylaw 17 as set before the first scheduled contest or date of competition of the designated official NCAA championship playing season in the applicable sport) and results in incapacity to compete for the remainder of that playing season; and

(c) The injury or illness occurs when the student-athlete has not participated in more than two contests or dates of competition (whichever is applicable to that sport) or 20 percent (whichever number is greater) of the institution's scheduled contests or dates of competition in his or her sport. Only scheduled competition (excluding scrimmages and exhibition contests) against outside participants during the playing season that concludes with the NCAA championship, or, if so designated, during the official NCAA championship playing season in that sport (for example, spring baseball, fall soccer), shall be countable under this limitation in calculating both the number of contests or dates of competition in which the student-athlete has participated and the number of scheduled contests or dates of competition during that season in the sport."

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (June 20, 2001, Item No. 3).

No. 11 Financial Aid -- Initial Counter -- Men's Basketball

Bylaws: Amend 15.5.8, page 196, as follows:

"15.5.8 Changes in Participation. If a student-athlete changes sports during an academic year, the student-athlete's financial aid shall be counted in the maximum limitations for the first sport for the remainder of the academic year. If the student-athlete continues to receive financial aid, the award shall be counted the next academic year against the maximum limitations in the second sport. A student-athlete shall be counted as an initial award in football or men's basketball during the year in which the student-athlete first becomes countable in that sport, regardless of whether countable financial aid was received previously for another sport.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (September 6, 2001, Item No. 2).

No. 12 Contacts -- Certified Events -- Men's Basketball

Bylaws: Amend 13.1.7.2, page 96, as follows:

"13.1.7.2 Practice or Competition Site. Recruiting contact may not be made with a prospect before any athletics competition in which the prospect is a participant during the day or days of competition, even if the prospect is on an official or unofficial visit. Contact includes the passing of notes to a prospect by a third party on behalf of an institutional staff member. Such contact shall be governed by the following:

(a) Contact shall not be made with the prospect at any site before the contest on the day or days of competition;

(b) Contact shall not be made with the prospect from the time the prospect reports on call (at the direction of the prospect's coach or comparable authority) and becomes involved in competition-related activity (for example, traveling to an away-from-home game) to the end of the competition even if such competition-related activities are initiated prior to the day or days of competition;

(c) Contact shall not be made after the competition until the prospect is released by the appropriate institutional authority and departs the dressing and meeting facility; and

(d) Contact shall not be made with the prospect involved in competition that requires more than one day of participation (for example, a basketball tournament) until after the prospect's final contest is completed and he or she is released by the appropriate institutional authority and leaves the dressing and meeting facility.

(e) In men's basketball, contact shall not be made with a prospect at any basketball event that is not part of a prospect's normal high-school, preparatory-school or two-year-college season, or any event that is not approved, sanctioned, sponsored or conducted by the applicable state high-school association, National Federation of State High School Associations or the National Junior College Athletic Association.

(e) In sports other than men's basketball, coaching staff members may send general correspondence to a prospect while the prospect is participating in an athletics event, provided the general correspondence is sent directly to a prospect (for example, the front desk of the hotel, the prospect's personal fax machine) and there is no additional party (for example, camp employee, coach) involved in disseminating the correspondence (See Bylaw 13.4).

13.1.7.2.1 Additional Restrictions-Men's Basketball. In the sport of men's basketball, the following additional restrictions shall apply:

(a) Contact shall not be made with a prospect at any basketball event during the academic year that is not part of a prospect's normal high-school, preparatory-school or two-year-college season, or any event that is not approved, sanctioned, sponsored or conducted by the applicable state high-school or two-year college association, National Federation of State High School Associations or the National Junior College Athletic Association.

(b) No interaction shall not be made at any certified summer basketball event or tour with a prospect, the prospect's relatives or legal guardians, the prospect's coach or any individual associated with the prospect as a result of the prospect's participation in basketball. This restriction is applicable to all types of interaction (for example, in-person contact, telephone calls, facsimile, pager). All communication with the prospect, the prospect's relatives or legal guardians, the prospect's coach or any individual associated with the prospect as a result of the prospect's participation in basketball, directly or indirectly, is prohibited during the time period in which the prospect is participating in the certified event."

[13.1.7.2.1 through 13.1.7.2.3 renumbered to 13.1.7.2.2 to 13.1.7.2.4 unchanged.]

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet Subcommittee on Legislative Review/Interpretations (February 21, 2002, Item No. 2) and (July 18, 2001, Item No. 2).