Conference Call No. 23
October 27, 2004

Acting for the Division I Management Council, the Division I Academics/Eligibility/ Compliance Cabinet Legislative Review/ Interpretations Committee issued the following interpretations:

4-2-4-4 Transfer/Use of the One-Time Transfer Exception when the First Four-Year School did not Sponsor the Sport

1. 4-2-4-4 Transfer and the One-Time Transfer Exception. In a case in which a transfer student-athlete begins his or her initial full-time collegiate enrollment at a four-year institution that discontinues or does not sponsor the student-athlete's sport while he or she is in attendance and the student-athlete subsequently transfers to a two-year college, then to another four-year institution and then to the certifying institution, the one-time transfer exception is applicable. [References: NCAA Bylaws 14.5.5.1 (four-year college transfers -- general rule) and 14.5.2.2.10 (one-time transfer exception).]

Timing of Foreign Tours

2. Timing of Foreign Tours. The period in which an institution may not engage in a foreign tour (beginning 30 days before the first permissible practice date until the first scheduled contest or date of competition in the applicable sport) applies only to the championship segment of the institution's playing and practice season. [Reference: Division I Bylaw 30.7.8 (timing of tour).]