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Administrative Committee minutes

November 27, 1996

Acting for the Council, the Administrative Committee:

a. Appointed Charles Wiley, football student-athlete, Georgia Institute of Technology, to the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, replacing Larry Kennedy, who resigned.

b. Approved an incidental-expense waiver request to permit an institution to provide travel expenses for multiple trips for a student-athlete to visit a terminally ill family member.

c. Agreed that moneys from the Special Assistance Fund for Student-Athletes could be used by an institution to provide a tape recorder for a student-athlete whose learning disability makes it difficult to take notes; and agreed that if the moneys are not available from that fund, the institution be granted an incidental-expense waiver to cover the expense.

d. Approved an incidental-expense waiver request to permit an institution to reimburse two student-athletes for items that were stolen from their hotel room, where they were staying with the team the night before a home football game.

Conference No. 25

December 4, 1996

1. Acting for the Council, the Administrative Committee:

a. Approved a request from the chair of the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports for an in-person meeting with the Council at its January meeting.

b. Approved a request for an incidental-expense waiver to permit an institution to provide meals for student-athletes in conjunction with faculty advisory night.

c. Approved the recommendation from the Council Subcommittee on Initial-Eligibility Waivers that at least five additional positions be created on the committee, and noted that additional assistance may be necessary in Division II if the new members all represent Division I.

2. Acting for the Executive Committee, the Administrative Committee reviewed the agendas for the Executive Committee and division championships committees' meetings.

3. Report of actions taken by the executive director per Constitution 4.3.2. Acting for the Council:

a. Granted a request from Kansas State University to temporarily replace two of its countable coaches in the sports of baseball and men's basketball per Bylaw 11.7.1.1.1.2.

b. Granted international competition waivers per Bylaw 14.7.6.

c. Granted waivers per Bylaw 14.7.6.1-(c) to permit student-athletes from various institutions to participate in competition involving national teams in men's basketball, men's and women's cross country, women's fencing, women's field hockey, men's and women's golf, men's gymnastics, women's rifle, women's rowing, men's and women's swimming, men's tennis, and men's wrestling.

d. Granted blanket waivers per Bylaw 14.7.6 to permit student-athletes to participate in qualifying tryouts and competition with U.S. Diving, U.S. Field Hockey, U.S. Swimming, USA Hockey and USA Wrestling.

e. Granted waivers per Bylaw 16.13.1 to permit institutions to provide incidental expenses in the following situations:

(1) To student-athletes for meal and transportation expenses to attend the funeral of a coach's parent.

(2) To student-athletes to rent tuxedos for a postseason banquet.

(3) To student-athletes to return to their homes to be with family members who were terminally ill, seriously injured or hospitalized.

(4) To provide flowers to families of those involved in funerals.

(5) To student-athletes to attend funerals of members of the student-athletes' families.

(6) To student-athletes to replace items that were stolen.

(7) To student-athletes to attend a banquet honoring the institution's former coach.

(8) To student-athletes to attend banquets where they will be honored.

(9) To student-athletes to attend the funeral of a teammate.

(10) To an institution to host a retirement dinner for the former head coach and invite current student-athletes on the team to attend.

(11) To provide psychological counseling to a student-athlete.

(12) To the parents of a student-athlete to be with the student-athlete due to injuries sustained during practice.

f. Granted waivers for championships eligibility per Bylaw 31.2.1.3 and a complete restoration of institutional eligibility for 1996-97 NCAA championships. The following institutions failed to meet the September 15, 1996, deadline for submitting NCAA sports-sponsorship forms: Alabama State University, University of Dubuque, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, Savannah State College and Shaw University.