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Women's Basketball Coaches Association legislative proposals
Legislative proposals in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association package on recruiting and access:
The NCAA News
Permit a prospect (including a two-year or four-year transfer student-athlete) who has enrolled in summer school to be considered a student-athlete and be provided the benefits and opportunities of such status. Permit an institution to provide a prospect who has signed a National Letter of Intent (or a written offer of admission or financial aid), but who has not graduated from high school, three complimentary tickets to home and away-from-home contests, including NCAA tournament games. Permit a prospect who has signed the NLI (or a written offer of admission or financial aid) and who has graduated from high school to (1) participate on an institution's summer foreign tour, (2) be provided medical expenses and (3) be allowed to work at an institution's camp (subjected to the same employment provisions governing student-athletes). Permit unlimited contact with a prospect who has signed the NLI (or a written offer of admission or financial aid) during any contact and evaluation period. Permit four women's basketball student-athletes to engage in skill-related instruction outside of the playing season with their coach(es) at any one time in separate facilities. Permit flexibility in out-of-season practice activities by allowing the permissible eight hours to include conditioning, weight training or skill instruction with no specified time limitations on any single activity. Also, permit coaches to observe (but not coach) their own team members participating in pick-up games conducted outside the playing season and specify that observation of pick-up games must be counted against the permissible eight hours of conditioning activities. Permit an institution to provide an occasional meal for the student-athlete's immediate family (including legal guardians) during a campus visit. Permit an institution to provide transportation expenses for the parents or legal guardians of a senior student-athlete to attend her final home game (for example, senior night) or one institutional awards banquet. Prohibit evaluations at nonscholastic events during the prospect's academic year. (The academic year is defined by the prospect's high school or educational system. This recommendation excludes the July evaluation period.) Reduce the total number of official visits a prospective student-athlete may take to a Division I or Division II institution from five to four (for both visits during high-school and post high-school visits). Modify the September contact period to occur September 16 through October 6 (contact period of 21 days). Also, permit 85 recruiting person-days from September 16 through April 30, with those days not designated for evaluations to be considered quiet and also retaining other specified recruiting period designations (for example, the dead period surrounding the Women's Final Four). Increase from two to three the number of certified coaches permitted to recruit off-campus during the academic year. Specify that a women's basketball coaching staff member may communicate with a prospective student-athlete only by telephone, facsimile, electronic mail and may provide other specified permissible recruiting materials. [This prohibits instant-messaging or text-messaging a prospect at any time (academic year and summer).] Within the women's basketball recruiting calendar, establish a dead period on December 24, 25, and 26. Prohibit an institution from making telephone calls to prospects in March of the prospect's junior year. Also, permit an institution to make one telephone call in April, May and June of the prospect's junior year of high school with subsequent telephone calls subject to current limitations (for example, one call June 21 through June 30, three calls in July). Prohibit women's basketball scholastic and nonscholastic events, practice and competition from being conducted on the campus of a Division I institution, except for high-school state qualifying competitions or tournaments. Permit one women's basketball coach (who is certified to recruit off campus) per institution to attend the USA Basketball Youth Festival. Permit a prospect who has enrolled in summer school to engage in two hours per week of individual skill instruction with the coach (only one-on-one instruction is permitted). Prohibit a coach from contacting a prospect's parent(s) or legal guardian(s) if they also serve on the staff of their daughter's nonscholastic team. It is permissible, though, for a coach to contact a parent/
legal guardian or a prospect who is a head coach of his or her daughter's scholastic team. Permit a coach to leave campus to recruit when another coach, who has been off-campus recruiting, is en route back to campus or is taking personal time without institutional reimbursement. Also, permit the coach taking personal time to begin recruiting again without returning to campus. Prohibit all communication with the prospect, or anyone associated with the prospect, during the specified 10-day evaluation periods in July. Prohibit coaches and any individual with women's basketball responsibilities from being employed (on a paid or volunteer basis) at non-institutional camps or clinics. An institution also may not employ another Division I women's basketball coach or any other individual with women's basketball responsibilities (for example, director of basketball operations) at their own institutional camp or clinic. Prohibit a coach from being employed (on a paid or volunteer basis) in any capacity by any professional women's basketball league or team. Further, coaches cannot serve as an announcer or commentator for any professional women's basketball league broadcast. Permit any type of recruiting presentation materials to be used during an in-home visit with a prospect, including Power Point presentations, photo boards, story boards, photo albums, slide shows, highlight tapes, videos and DVDs (though the prospect's name, picture or likeness may not be included in any of the materials). Limit the number of pages in an institution's hard-copy women's basketball media guide or recruiting brochure to a maximum of 200 pages. Recommend that the NCAA explore the concept of establishing a clearinghouse and/or partnership with foreign countries to identify and classify the amateur status of international women's basketball student-athletes. Eliminate the April 2005 contact period and establish a five-day evaluation period during the third week in April (for example, April 15 through April 19, 2005). (Proposed as emergency legislation to avoid conflict with the April 9, 2005, ACT testing date.) Permit an eligible student-athlete to play in preseason exhibition games (including a practice scrimmage) and not lose one of their four seasons of competition.
Legislative proposals in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association package on recruiting and access:
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