The new opportunity for member institutions to submit proposed legislation in Division I and the traditional method of sponsoring legislative proposals in Divisions II and III generated a total of 73 membership proposals for consideration for 2004.

Division I members submitted 59 proposals for consideration in the new 12-month legislative cycle, which offers the membership an opportunity to propose legislation for the first time since restructuring in 1997. In addition, Division II members submitted six proposals and Division III members offered eight for consideration during division business sessions at the 2004 Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

All three divisions' membership proposals were due to the national office by July 15.

Division I proposals

The Division I proposals include the Atlantic Coast Conference's long-anticipated proposal to reduce from 12 to 10 the number of conference members required to exempt a conference football championship game from maximum allowable contests. The proposal would permit conferences to divide into divisions of five teams each and pair the division winners against each other in the championships game.

The Big Ten Conference is sponsoring a pair of proposals that would affect teams' exhibition-contest opportunities. The league is joining with the Pacific-10 Conference to propose banning foreign tours for teams in all sports, and also is the sponsor of a proposal that would prohibit basketball teams from playing exhibition contests against noncollegiate teams, including touring foreign squads and USA Basketball club teams. Both proposals stem from what the sponsors describe as increasing pressure to schedule foreign tours or exhibition games against noncollegiate opponents for recruiting purposes.

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is proposing discontinuation of the Division I athletics certification process. The sponsors suggest that institutions have derived few tangible benefits in relation to time devoted to certification, and are asking Division I to consider alternative means of validating the integrity of member institutions' athletics programs.

A Pacific-10 Conference proposal would establish standards by which a legislative proposal could be deemed "noncontroversial," including requiring a three-quarters majority vote by the Management Council to recommend such legislation and a three-quarters majority vote of the Board of Directors for approval. The proposal also would define "emergency" legislation and prohibit applying that classification to any legislative proposal that fails to meet stated criteria for addressing an issue outside the normal legislative calendar.

The Division I Board of Directors' decision in April to table a proposal to move Division I-A institutions that fail to meet membership requirements to restricted status in football only has prompted the Mid-American Conference to propose an alternative approach. The MAC proposal would place a Division I-A member that fails to satisfy any subdivision membership requirement for three consecutive years in restricted membership; a failure to meet I-A requirements during the restricted year then would result in loss of I-A classification. The sponsors suggest this approach will provide greater stability in subdivision membership in Division I while still promoting institutional compliance with membership criteria.

The subject of recruiting prompted the largest number of membership proposals, with 15 of the 59 proposals addressing aspects of that legislation. Other topic areas drawing a substantial number of proposals include playing and practice seasons (10 proposals), eligibility (seven), and awards and benefits (six).

Divisions II and III proposals

Meanwhile, Divisions II and III members combined to submit 14 proposals for consideration at the 2004 Convention, in accordance with their long-established legislative processes. The total -- one less than submitted from the membership for the 2003 Convention and three fewer than for 2002 -- is consistent with the quantity of proposals offered by the membership in recent years.

Sponsors of proposals in both divisions generally have playing and practice seasons on their minds, with four of Division II's proposals and six Division III proposals addressing aspects of that legislation.

In Division II, two conferences with members in Alaska and Hawaii are seeking a change in the once-in-four-years exemption for basketball games scheduled in those states and in Puerto Rico. The proposal by the Great Northwest Athletic and Pacific West Conferences would permit a team to exempt four games during a single trip every four years, regardless of whether they are played in a tournament.

Two Division II proposals address first dates of competition, including a proposal cosponsored by the Great Lakes Valley and Northeast-10 Conferences that would permit basketball programs to schedule exhibition contests against non-Division II opponents and scrimmages before November 1 during the permissible preseason practice period. The sponsors seek to expand opportunities for contests against NAIA institutions and scrimmages against junior college teams, which generally begin play earlier than Division II members.

Two other proposals would modify executive regulations specifying how factors such as team forfeits due to use of an ineligible player or loss of a key player due to injury should be treated in championships selection.

Both proposals -- one co-sponsored by the North Central Intercollegiate Athletic and Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conferences and the other by the Peach Belt and Sunshine State Conferences -- would require forfeited contests to be regarded in the selection process as a loss for the forfeiting team and a win for the opponent who receives the forfeit. In addition, the NCIAC/
GLIAC proposal would end the longtime practice of considering injury of a key player in the selection process, and also would require the sports committee to consider NCAA eligibility rulings in situations where a school or conference does not invoke a forfeit as a result.

In Division III, the question of whether to eliminate contests during the nontraditional playing season is being raised again in a proposal by the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin. The proposal would exempt golf and tennis. A similar proposal fell just short of adoption at the 2000 Convention, resulting in referral of the question to the Division III Presidents Council and subsequent legislation placing additional limits on nontraditional seasons.

A proposal from the Centennial Conference aims to further standardize nontraditional segments by limiting practice and competition during that season to 16 days (including one date of competition) in baseball, field hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball and women's volleyball.

On another topic, Division III independent programs are joining forces on a proposal that would permit end-of-season championship tournaments for independents in each sport. Such competition would be conducted at the end of each sport's regular season and before the NCAA championship.

Other proposals from the membership are similar to proposals that are emerging from the Division III governance structure, and as a result, the conferences offering those proposals ultimately could join with the Division III Presidents Council or other governance groups as co-sponsors.

One would limit playing seasons to 18 weeks for fall sports and 19 weeks for winter and spring sports, and another would classify tennis and golf as team sports for automatic-qualification purposes. The Division III Management Council has asked the sponsor of the tennis/golf proposal, the Empire 8, to consider withdrawal in favor of a proposal for the 2005 Convention that also would include cross country as a team sport.

Three conferences also have submitted an eligibility proposal that is substantially similar to a proposal that will be sponsored at the 2004 Convention by the Division III Presidents Council. The proposal would charge a season of competition to any student-athlete who practices or competes with a team during or after the first contest in which the athlete could compete.

Next steps

Division I proposals have been posted at NCAA Online as part of a Web-based Publication of Proposed Legislation (POPL). Also, the Management Council's administrative committee is referring the proposals either to the Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet or the Championships/Competition Cabinet for review during their September meetings.

The first of two amendment periods will last from August 15 to the end of the Management Council's October 21-22 meeting. During this time, the cabinets or any conference (whether it sponsored the proposal or not) may amend a proposal.

At its October meeting, the Management Council will review proposals that have been amended but not agreed to by the original sponsor. In those cases, the Council may choose to support the original proposal or the amendment(s), or develop its own proposal.

A printed Official Notice will be distributed by November 15 and will list all pending legislative proposals sponsored by conferences, cabinets or the Council. The Council will give initial formal consideration to the proposals at its January meeting.

A number of proposals proposed by conferences in previous legislative cycles are being carried forward for consideration during the new legislative cycle. Those proposals also appear in the Web-based POPL, along with proposals originating in the Division I committee/cabinet structure.

In Divisions II and III, proposals have been published in PDF format in a Web-based Initial Publication of Proposed Legislation (IPOPL).

All membership-sponsored proposals will be evaluated by an appropriate Association-wide or Division II or III committee before they are included on the agenda for the 2004 Convention. The designated committee will report to sponsors the results of its review of a proposal by October 7. A committee may indicate support for or opposition to a proposal or suggest an alternative proposal as a result of its review.

The Second Publication of Proposed Legislation (which includes amendments submitted by the Presidents Councils and those properly modified by sponsors) will be provided online not later than September 23, and the Official Notice will be provided not later than November 15.

Divisions I, II and III membership proposals

Following are the intent statements, sources and effective dates for 73 legislative proposals -- 59 in Division I, six in Division II and eight in Division III -- that were properly submitted by member institutions and conferences by the July 15 deadline. The Division I proposals will be considered through the established Division I legislative process featuring review by the Division I Management Council; Divisions II and III proposals will be considered by the membership in their 2004 Convention business sessions.

All of the proposals below (including sponsors' rationale and contact information) are included in the LSDBi on NCAA Online (www.ncaa.org), as are all 2003 proposals developed within the Division I cabinet/committee structure, which will be published in a future issue of The NCAA News.

Division I proposals

No. 2003-3 Eligibility -- Hardship Waiver

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may qualify for a hardship waiver even if the injury or illness occurs after the completion of the first-half of the playing season.

Source: Big South Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004; to be applied retroactively.

No. 2003-4 Eligibility -- Satisfactory Progress -- Fulfillment of Degree Requirements and Minimum Grade-Point Average

Intent: To specify that a student who has used seasons of competition before initial full-time collegiate enrollment and attendance shall be required to meet the minimum percentage of degree and grade-point average requirements set forth in Bylaw 14, as specified.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004; for those student-athletes first entering a collegiate institution full-time on or after August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-5 Eligibility -- Satisfactory Progress -- Minimum Grade-Point Average -- Exception -- National Service Academies

Intent: To specify that the national service academies are exempt from the minimum grade-point average requirements.

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council (Mountain West Conference).

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-7 Financial Aid -- Initial Counters -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to specify that beginning with the 2003-04 academic year, an institution shall qualify for an additional initial counter to be used not more than once within a two-year period, if a student-athlete's institutional aid is not renewed for legitimate reasons.

Source: Atlantic 10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-8 Financial Aid -- Tuition and Course-Related Fees to Attend Another Institution

Intent: To permit an institution to provide tuition and course-related fees to a student-athlete to attend another institution and enroll in courses required by the student-athlete's specific degree program, but not offered by the certifying institution.

Source: Western Athletic Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-9 Awards and Benefits -- Meals Incidental to Participation

Intent: To permit an institution to provide meals incidental to participation in conjunction with a home athletics contest.

Source: NCAA Division I Management Council [Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet (Amateurism and Agents Subcommittee) (Big Ten Conference)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-10 Awards and Benefits -- Vacation Period Expenses

Intent: To permit an institution to provide on-campus storage for the belongings of a student-athlete attending summer school from the time summer school concludes until the start of preseason practice or the first day the institutional dormitories are open for the start of classes, whichever occurs first.

Source: Big East Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-11 Awards and Benefits -- Miscellaneous Benefits

Intent: To permit an institution to provide an additional meal to a student-athlete during each day of any vacation period that occurs within the academic year, if the student-athlete is required to remain on campus for practice or competition.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Amateurism and Agents Subcommittee (Big East Conference)].

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-13 Championships -- Automatic Qualification

Intent: To eliminate the automatic-qualification period for an institution reclassifying to NCAA Division I status that joins an established conference that currently satisfies the continuity of membership requirements.

Source: Big West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-14 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Swimming and Diving

Intent: In swimming and diving, to specify that a student-athlete who does not enroll in college within one year after the graduation date of the student-athlete's class (as determined by the first year of high-school enrollment or the international equivalent) shall fulfill an academic year in residence upon initial collegiate enrollment and shall lose a season of competition for each year in which the student-athlete has participated in organized swimming and diving competition during each year after the expected date of high-school graduation (or the international equivalent) and before collegiate enrollment.

Source: NCAA Division I Academics/Eligibility/Compliance Cabinet [Amateurism and Agents and Continuing Eligibility Subcommittees (Big Ten and Mountain West Conferences)].

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-15 Summer Financial Aid -- Before Initial Full-Time Enrollment

Intent: To permit an institution to provide athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete in any sport to attend the institution's summer term before the student's initial, full-time enrollment at the certifying institution, as specified.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: May 1, 2004.

No. 2003-52 Recruiting -- Telephone Calls Subsequent to National Letter of Intent Signing or Other Written Commitment

Intent: To permit an institution to make unlimited calls to a prospect who is not eligible to sign a National Letter of Intent (for example, four-year college transfer) provided the prospect has signed an institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid.

Source: Big East Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-66 Recruiting -- Official Visit -- Academic Transcript

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that an institution must be presented a prospective student-athlete's official academic transcript or a copy of the official transcript before the prospective student-athlete making an official visit to the institution.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-67 Administrative Regulations -- Foreign Tours and Competition

Intent: To eliminate institutional foreign tours in all sports.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference and Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004; institutions may honor contracts beyond this date provided the contract was signed prior to the date legislation is adopted.

No. 2003-69 Athletics Certification

Intent: To eliminate the requirement that each Division I member institution, at least once every 10 years, complete an institutional self-study, verified and evaluated through external peer review.

Source: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-70 Committees -- Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports -- Composition

Intent: To add one member to the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports; further, to specify that the additional member be a strength and conditioning professional.

Source: Sun Belt Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-71 Membership -- Definition of a Division I-A Conference

Intent: To specify that a Division I-A conference may include in its required eight members an institution that counts as one of its six men's sports and one of its eight women's sports, a sport in which it participates through a multisport or single-sport conference that is affiliated with the Division I-A conference.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference and Western Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2005.

No. 2003-72 Amateurism -- Expenses for Student-Athlete's Friends And Relatives -- Postseason Bowl Games

Intent: In Division I-A football, to permit a student-athlete to designate individuals other than his or her parents or legal guardians to receive permissible entertainment expenses related to the student-athlete's participation in the postseason bowl game.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-73 Amateurism -- Financial Donations from Outside Organizations -- Professional Sports Organizations

Intent: In sports other that football and men's basketball, to permit a institution's marketing department to enter into a reciprocal contractual relationship with a professional sports organization for the specific purpose of marketing and promoting an institutionally sponsored sport.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-74 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Required Day Off -- Travel Day

Intent: To specify that an institution may not consider a travel day (defined as 6 a.m. to midnight in the time zone of the certifying institution) related to athletics participation as a day off; further, to specify that if an unexpected transportation delay beyond the control of the institution causes a student-athlete or team to return to campus after 6 a.m., that day may be designated as the required day off provided the student-athlete does not participate in any other countable athletically related activities during that day.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-75 Committees -- Football Issues Committee -- Composition

Intent: To specify that the NCAA Football Issues Committee shall be composed of 24 members; further, to specify that each Division I-A and Division I-AA conference shall have one representative on the committee, two student-athletes shall serve on the committee and to eliminate all ex-officio members.

Source: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-76 Financial Aid -- Men's Basketball Limitations -- Initial Counters

Intent: In men's basketball, to eliminate the limit on the number of initial counters.

Source: Atlantic Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-77 Recruiting -- Printed Recruiting Materials -- General Correspondence -- Express Mail

Intent: To prohibit an institution from using any express mail services to send recruiting correspondence, other than the National Letter of Intent agreement or other written admissions/financial aid commitment to attend the institution, to prospective student-athletes, their parents or guardians or their coaches.

Source: Atlantic Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-78 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Annual Exemptions -- Football

Intent: In football, to specify that a conference championship game between division champions of a member conference of 10 or more institutions that is divided into two divisions (of five or more institutions each) may be exempted from the maximum number of contests.

Source: Atlantic Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-79 Legislative Process -- Emergency/Noncontroversial Legislation

Intent: To define the terms "emergency" and "noncontroversial" as they apply to proposed NCAA legislation.

Source: Pacific-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-80 Automatic Qualification -- Men's Basketball -- Grace Period

Intent: In men's basketball, to increase from one to two years the grace period during which a conference may continue to qualify for automatic qualification to the NCAA men's basketball championship when it fails to satisfy either the seven-member or continuity-of-membership requirement.

Source: America East Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-81 Awards And Benefits -- Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition -- Other Competition

Intent: To permit an institution to provide actual and necessary expenses related to participation in Olympic, Pan American, World Championships, World Cup and World University Games competition during an academic year in which a student-athlete is eligible to represent the institution in athletics competition (or in the following summer).

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-82 Personnel -- Undergraduate Student-Coach

Intent: To permit an individual to serve as a student-coach, provided he or she is within their five-year eligibility period, has exhausted his or her eligibility in the sport or has become injured to the point that he or she is unable to practice or compete ever again and is enrolled in either an undergraduate or graduate program.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-83 Recruiting -- Definitions and Applications -- Prospective Student-Athlete

Intent: To revise the definition of a prospective student-athlete to specify that an individual enrolled and receiving institutional athletics aid during the summer before initial full-time enrollment is not a prospective student-athlete.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-84 Personnel -- Volunteer Coach -- Meals During Official Visit

Intent: In sports other than football and basketball, to permit an institution to provide a volunteer coach meals during a prospective student-athlete's official visit.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-85 Ethical Conduct --

Unethical Conduct

Intent: To permit an institution to appeal immediately the minimum reinstatement conditions applied to a student-athlete who engages in gambling activities for the first time, and is subject to the sanctions set forth in Bylaw 10.3.1-(b).

Source: Atlantic 10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-86 Recruiting -- Tryout Exception -- Men's Basketball

Intent: To permit an institution's strength and conditioning coach with department-wide duties to design and conduct specific voluntary workout programs for basketball prospective student-athletes who have either signed a National Letter of Intent or been accepted for enrollment in a regular full-time program of studies at that institution and who are receiving financial aid to attend the institution's summer school prior to initial, full-time enrollment at the institution per Bylaw 15.2.7.1.3; further, to permit an institution to finance medical expenses for such basketball prospects who sustain an injury while participating in the voluntary summer workouts.

Source: Atlantic 10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-87 Recruiting -- Basketball
Prospects -- Medical Exams

Intent: To permit an institution to administer medical examinations to a basketball prospect who is receiving financial aid to attend summer school before initial, full-time enrollment at the institution per Bylaw 15.2.7.1.3.

Source: Atlantic 10 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-88 Recruiting -- Recruiting
Materials -- Printed Recruiting Materials

Intent: To specify that an institution may produce either a recruiting brochure or media guide (but not both) in each sport it sponsors and provide it to a prospect only through electronic mail or the institution's Web site.

Source: Atlantic Coast Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-89 Eligibility -- Seasons of Competition -- Tennis

Intent: In tennis, to specify that a student-athlete who does not enroll at an NCAA, NAIA or NJCAA institution by his or her 20th birthday shall fulfill an academic year in residence on enrollment at the certifying institution and shall lose a season of competition for each year subsequent to his or her 20th birthday.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-90 Recruiting -- Definitions and Applications -- Recruited Prospective
Student-Athlete

Intent: To specify that telephone contact on more than one occasion with a prospective student-athlete does not cause the student-athlete to be considered recruited; further, to specify that the prospective student-athlete shall be recruited if the institution offers the National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of athletically related financial aid to the prospect.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-91 Membership -- Division I-A Membership Requirements -- Restricted Membership -- Three-Year Consecutive Period

Intent: To specify that an institution that fails to satisfy any Division I-A membership requirement for three consecutive years will be placed in restricted membership status in football for one year and that failure to meet Division I-A membership requirements during the restricted year will result in the institution losing its Division I-A classification.

Source: Mid-American Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-92 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Men's Basketball -- Annual Exemptions

Intent: In men's basketball, to prohibit an institution from playing exhibition contests against noncollegiate teams (for example, foreign team, USA Basketball Club team).

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-93 Athletics Certification -- Rules Compliance

Intent: To revise the effective date of the once-in-four year rules-compliance evaluation requirement to include institutions that began their self-studies before the 2003-04 academic year.

Source: Big 12 Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-94 Awards and Benefits -- Expenses Provided by the Institution for Practice and Competition -- Departure/
Return Expense Restrictions

Intent: To specify that an institution participating in NCAA championships and national governing body championships in emerging sports shall not depart earlier than 48 hours before the start of actual competition.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-95 Recruiting -- Telephone Calls to Prospects -- Division I-AA Football

Intent: In Division I-AA football, to permit institutions that offer only need-based financial aid to make telephone contact with prospects more than once per week during the football holiday dead period.

Source: Patriot League.

Effective date: August 1, 2004

No. 2003-96 Eligibility -- Progress Toward Degree -- Six Credit Hours --
Three Calendar-Day Period

Intent: To establish a three calendar-day period during which institutions must certify that student-athletes have satisfactorily completed six semester or quarter hours of academic credit the preceding academic term in which the student-athlete has been enrolled full time at any collegiate institution.

Source: Southeastern Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-97 Recruiting -- Recruiting Materials -- Highlight Film/Videotape/Audio Tape

Intent: To permit a narrator to appear on an institution's highlight film, provided the narrator appears in a setting that includes any area related to the site of competition or the institution's campus.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-98 Recruiting -- Offers and Inducements -- Employment of Prospects

Intent: To permit an institution's athletics department to employ prospective student-athletes who are not athletics award winners, as specified.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-99 Recruiting -- Offers and Inducements -- Employment of Prospects

Intent: To permit an institution's athletics department to employ prospective student-athletes who are athletics award winners.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-100 Personnel -- Skiing -- Recruiting Off Campus

Intent: In skiing, to increase from one to two the number of coaches who may recruit off campus at any one time.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-101 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Maximum Dates Of Competition -- Skiing

Intent: In skiing, to count institutional dates of competition separately for Nordic and alpine events, while maintaining the limit on the total dates of competition in which each individual student-athlete may enter.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-102 Eligibility -- Progress Toward Degree -- Missed-Term Exception

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete may use the missed-term exception even if the student-athlete is not eligible to enroll at the certifying institution during that term(s).

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-103 Amateurism -- Definitions and Applications -- First Opportunity to Enroll

Intent: To establish a definition of "first opportunity to enroll" to be used in student-athlete reinstatement cases involving participation on professional teams.

Source: Ivy Group.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-104 Recruiting -- Contacts and Evaluations -- Men's Basketball

Intent: In men's basketball, to eliminate contacts and official visits with prospective student-athletes in their junior year of high school and to reformat the rules surrounding permissible evaluation activities during contact periods.

Source: Big Ten Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004

No. 2003-105 Recruiting -- Women's
Volleyball -- Awards Banquet

Intent: In women's volleyball, to permit institutional coaching staff members to have incidental contact with the recipient of the Two-Year College Player of the Year Award presented at the annual American Volleyball Coaches Association awards banquet.

Source: Missouri Valley Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-106 Awards and Benefits -- Maximum Value of Awards

Intent: To increase the awards limitations as specified.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-107 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Five-Day Acclimatization Period -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that first-time participants (including transfers) at national service academies who have completed basic military training are not required to complete the five-day acclimatization period at the beginning of preseason practice.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-108 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Conditioning Activities -- National Service Academies -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that national service academies shall designate nine weeks of student-athlete discretionary time between January 1 and the start of the preseason practice period.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2003-109 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Limit on Number of Participants -- Division I-A Football

Intent: In Division I-A football, to specify that the restriction on the number of student-athletes who may engage in practice activities prior to the institution's first day of classes or first contest, whichever occurs first, shall not apply to national service academies.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-118 Official Visit -- Complimentary Admissions

Intent: To permit a prospect to receive three complimentary admissions to attend an institution's off-campus regular-season home contest, provided the prospect is on an official visit and the site of the contest is located within the state or, if outside the state, within a 50-mile radius of the institution's campus; further, to permit an institution to provide ground transportation (for example, team bus) for the prospect and those individuals accompanying the prospect on an official visit to attend a contest that occurs within a 50-mile radius of campus.

Source: Big East Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-119 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Out-of-Season Conditioning -- Five-Day Acclimatization Period -- Division I- AA Football

Intent: In Division I-AA football, to permit an institution, during the five-day acclimatization period, the option of conducting one three-hour on-field practice session per day or, in the alternative, one one-hour testing session (for example, speed, conditioning or agility tests) and one two-hour on-field practice session per day; further, to specify that an institution must provide student-athletes with at least three hours of recovery time between the testing and on-field practice session and that protective equipment (for example, helmets, shoulder pads) shall not be worn during such sessions.

Source: Southern Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-120 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Non-NCAA Postseason Championships Participation -- Gymnastics

Intent: In gymnastics, to exempt the USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships from the gymnastics playing and practice season regulations.

Source: Mountain West Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 2003-121 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Vacation Period -- Strength and Conditioning Coach

Intent: To permit a countable coach that is a certified strength and conditioning coach to conduct conditioning workouts during an institution's vacation period.

Source: Big South Conference.

Effective date: Immediately.

Division II proposals

No. 1 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Basketball -- First Contest -- Exceptions

Intent: In basketball, to specify that the first permissible date for exhibition contests against non-Division II, four-year collegiate institutions and for scrimmages is the first permissible starting date for practice.

Source: Great Lakes Valley Conference and Northeast-10 Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 2 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Contests in Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico -- basketball

Intent: In basketball, to permit an institution, once every four years, to exempt a maximum of four contests from its maximum number of contests during one trip to Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico.

Source: Great Northwest Athletic Conference and Pacific West Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 3 Playing and Practice Seasons -- First Date of Practice -- Championship Segment

Intent: In cross country, field hockey, soccer and women's volleyball, to establish the first permissible start date for practice in the championship segment as 17 days before the first permissible date for competition.

Source: Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 4 Playing and Practice Seasons -- Football Spring Practice -- Conditioning Activities and/or Review of Game Film

Intent: In football, during the spring practice period to specify that 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 video/film.

Source: Lone Star Conference and Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Effective date: Immediately.

No. 5 Executive Regulations -- Criteria for Selection of Participants for Championships

Intent: To eliminate unavailability due to injury as a consideration for championships selection; to require the governing sports committees to recognize official action taken by the NCAA conferences or the member institutions in cases of ineligible student-athletes; and to require that the governing sports committees consider contests involving ineligible student-athletes as losses for the involved student-athletes' institutions and as wins for the opposing institutions.

Source: North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 6 Executive Regulations -- Ineligible Players On Team -- Forfeited Contest

Intent: To require that contests or dates of competition that are forfeited by either the conference, an individual institution or the NCAA be counted as a loss for the offending team and as a win for the opponent.

Source: Peach Belt Conference and Sunshine State Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Division III proposals

No. 7 Eligibility -- Criteria for Determining Season of Eligibility -- Minimum Amount of Participation

Intent: To specify that a student-athlete will be charged with a season of competition if he or she practices or competes during or after the first regular-season contest at a Division III institution.

Source: Centennial Conference, College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin, and Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004, for any participation occurring on or after August 1, 2004.

Length of Playing Season

Intent: To specify that the length of the playing season shall not exceed 18 weeks for fall sports and 19 weeks for winter and spring sports.

Source: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin and Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Practice and Contest Limitations

Intent: In baseball, field hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball and women's volleyball, to limit practice and competition in the nontraditional segment to 16 days; further, to specify that no laboratory time may be missed for practice or competition in the nontraditional segment.

Source: Centennial Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Elimination of Contests

Intent: In all sports except golf and tennis, to eliminate all competition in the nontraditional segment.

Source: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Annual Exemptions -- I

ndependents Championship

Intent: In all sports except fencing and football, to exempt competition in one championship tournament among independent member institutions conducted after the end of the regular season and prior to the NCAA or national governing body championship.

Source: 10 institutions.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Exhibition Contests -- Basketball

Intent: In basketball, to permit an institution to play an exhibition contest against either a Division I or II institution between November 1 and the first permissible contest.

Source: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

Limitations -- Multiple-Day Events

Intent: In track and field, to specify that the maximum contest limitations may include up to four multiple-day events that shall each count as a single date of competition.

Source: Ohio Athletic Conference.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.

No. 14 Executive Regulations -- Selection of Teams and Individuals for Championships Participation -- Automatic Qualification

Intent: To expand the team sports groupings for automatic qualification to include tennis and golf.

Source: Empire 8.

Effective date: August 1, 2004.