MINUTES OF THE

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

DIVISION I LEGISLATIVE REVIEW/INTERPRETATIONS COMMITTEE

Conference Call No. 20 November 29, 2006

Participants:

Renee Baumgartner, University of Oregon

Brad Bertani, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thomas Hickman, Winthrop University

James Klein, University of Toledo

Shane Lyons, Atlantic Coast Conference

Don Oberhelman, University of Southern Mississippi

Tracy Shoemake, Texas State University – San Marcos, chair

Brad Hostetter, NCAA

Jay Jones, NCAA

Bo Kerin, NCAA

Leeland Zeller, NCAA

Janet Lucas, California State University, Northridge and Ray Shackelford, Bethune-Cookman College were unable to participate.

[Note: These minutes contain only actions taken (formal votes or stated “sense of the telephone conference”) in accordance with NCAA policy regarding minutes of all Association entities. While certain items on the committee’s agenda were acted on at various times throughout the meeting, all final actions within a given topic are combined in these minutes for convenience of reference.]

The NCAA Division I Legislative Review/Interpretations Committee telephone conference was called to order at 3 p.m. All members were present as noted above.

NCAA Division I Bylaw 13.11.2.3 (Local Sports Clubs)

1. Application of "Legal Resident" to Involvement with a Local Sports Club. (I) The committee confirmed that for purposes of the application of the local sports clubs legislation, a prospective student-athlete who relocates to within a 50-mile radius of an institution on a temporary basis (e.g., to participate on a club team or attend an institution while maintaining a permanent residence outside of the 50-mile radius) is not a "legal resident of the area" of

the institution regardless of whether the prospect meets a legal standard of state or local residency for governmental purposes. Therefore, an institution's coach may not be involved with a local sports club team in the coach's sport that includes such a prospect. [References: NCAA Division I Bylaw 13.11.2.3 (local sports clubs)]

2. Adjournment. The meeting adjourned at approximately 3:45 p.m.

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MINUTES OF THE

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

DIVISION I LEGISLATIVE REVIEW/INTERPRETATIONS COMMITTEE

In-Person Meeting No. 1 December 12, 2006

Participants:

Renee Baumgartner, University of Oregon

Brad Bertani, University of Tennessee

Thomas Hickman, Winthrop University

Shane Lyons, Atlantic Coast Conference, acting chair

Don Oberhelman, University of Southern Mississippi

Ray Shackelford, Bethune-Cookman College

Bo Kerin, NCAA

Wendy Walters, NCAA

Leeland Zeller, NCAA

James Klein, University of Toledo; Tracy Shoemake, Texas State University, San Marcos; and Janet Lucas, University of California, Irvine, were unable to attend.

[Note: These minutes contain only actions taken (formal votes or stated "sense of the meeting") in accordance with NCAA policy regarding minutes of all Association entities. While certain items on the committee's agenda were acted on at various times throughout the meeting, all final actions within a given topic are combined in these minutes for convenience of reference.]

The NCAA Division I Legislative/Interpretations Committee meeting was called to order at 8:35 a.m. by the acting chair, Mr. Lyons. All members were present as noted above.

Recruiting/Printed Recruiting Materials

1. Institutional Note Cards – Application of NCAA Proposal No. 2006-39. (I) The committee determined that institutional note cards that are to be sent to prospective student-athletes must be blank on the inside (i.e., one side of card that is 8 ½ inches by 11 inches or smaller when opened in full) when produced and that, when sent to prospects, only handwritten information (e.g., words, illustrations) may be included. [References: NCAA Bylaw 13.4.1.1 (printed recruiting materials) and Proposal No. 2006-39.]

Recruiting/Recruiting Person Days -- Basketball

2. Counting Recruiting Person Days when Evaluating Consecutive-Day Tournaments – Basketball. (I) The committee confirmed that during the permissible evaluation period, any visit to a prospective student-athlete's educational institution on consecutive days to observe a tournament or tier of a tournament, counts as one recruiting person day for each day the coach attends the tournament; however, the observation of the tournament counts as a single evaluation for each prospect participating, regardless of the number of days the coach engages in evaluation activities at the tournament. [References: Bylaws 13.1.5.1.3 (visits during evaluation period -- basketball), 13.1.5.1.3.1 (tournament exception) and a staff interpretation, (reference: 1/25/06, item 1), which has been archived.]

Recruiting/Contact/Four-Year College Prospects

3. Hearing Opportunity when Written Permission to Contact Four-Year College Prospect is Delayed. (I) The committee confirmed that if an institution delays a response to a student-athlete's request for permission to contact any other four-year institution or indicates that permission will be granted at a later date (e.g., at the end of the term), the institution must inform the student-athlete in writing within a reasonable time period following the initial request that he or she, on request, will be provided a hearing. [References: Bylaws 13.1.1.3 (four-year college prospects) and 13.1.1.3.1 (hearing opportunity); and a staff interpretation (reference: 2/22/06, item c), which has been archived.]

Recruiting/Contact/Practice or Competition Site

4. Contact with a Prospective Student-Athlete During a Tournament or on an Extended Road Trip. (I) The committee confirmed that it is permissible for an institution's coach to contact a prospective student-athlete who is competing in a tournament that is not conducted on consecutive days, and who subsequently will return to compete in the remainder of the tournament, provided the prospective student-athlete has been released by the appropriate institutional authority and the contact occurs on a day in which there is no further competition. Further, in the case of an extended road trip, the committee determined that a member institution's coach is permitted to contact a prospective student-athlete at the conclusion of a competition and prior to the commencement of travel to the team's next competition provided the prospective student-athlete has been released by the appropriate institutional authority and departs the dressing and meeting facility. [References: Bylaws 13.02.2 (competition site) and 13.1.7.2 (practice or competition site); and a staff interpretation (reference: 5/3/06, item a), which has been archived.]

Recruiting/Electronic Communications

5. Preparation of Electronic Communications. (I) The committee confirmed that electronically transmitted correspondence (e.g., electronic mail, instant messenger, facsimiles, pages, text messaging) must be prepared by a coach who counts toward the numerical limitations on head or assistant coaches. It is permissible for an individual other than a coach to send correspondence; however, such an individual may neither prepare correspondence that will be sent to prospects or respond to correspondence from a prospect. [References: Bylaws 11.7.1.2 (recruiting coordination functions); 11.7.4 (limitations on number -- off-campus recruiting); 13.4.1.1 (printed recruiting materials) and 13.4.1.2 (electronic transmissions), and a staff interpretation, (reference: 5/10/06, item 1), which has been archived.]

Recruiting/Telephone Calls

6. Athletics Department Staff Members Receiving or Returning Telephone Calls to Prospective Student-Athletes. (I) The committee confirmed that it is not permissible for athletics department staff members (other than the head or one of the countable assistant coaches or other specific staff members pursuant to legislated exceptions) to make telephone calls to or receive telephone calls from prospective student-athletes (or the prospective student athlete's parents, legal guardians, or coaches). [References: Bylaws 11.7.1.2 (recruiting coordination functions); 13.1.3.4.1 (permissible callers -- institutional staff members -- general rule); 13.1.3.4.1.1 (exceptions); and a staff interpretation, (reference: 7/19/06, item 1a), which has been archived.]

Amateurism/Promotional Activities

7. Fundraising Activity Involving Promotional Item Bearing Name, Picture or Likeness of a Student-Athlete. (I) The committee confirmed that a fundraising activity (e.g., auction, raffle) involving items that include the name, picture, or likeness of a student-athlete, must be treated in the same manner as a sale. For example, at a fundraising event, it is not permissible for an institution to raffle a jersey with a name of a student-athlete affixed to it, even if other student-athletes sign the jersey. However, if a jersey does not bear the affixed name of an individual student-athlete and is signed by multiple student-athletes, it is permissible for the jersey to be raffled, subject to the legislative requirements for conducting such promotions. [References: Bylaw 12.5.1.1 (institutional, charitable, educational or nonprofit promotions); and a staff interpretation (reference: 7/19/06, item 1d), which has been archived.]

Recruiting/Camps and Clinics/Attendance Restriction

8. Attendance Restriction at Institutional Camps/Clinics. (I) The committee determined that attendance at institutional camps/clinics may be limited by grade level or gender or both. [References: Bylaw 13.12.1.2 (attendance restriction); and a staff interpretation (reference: 5/24/06, item 1), which has been archived.]

Recruiting/Tryouts/Competition Against Prospects

9. Individual Sport Competition Involving an Institution's Varsity Team and an Outside Team that Includes High School Prospective Student-Athletes. (I) The committee determined that in individual sports, it is permissible for an institution's varsity team and an outside team that includes high school prospective student-athletes to participate in the same event, provided:

(a) The event either involves no team scoring, or the event uses team scoring such that the institution's varsity team and the outside team are in separate scoring categories; and

(b) The institution's varsity team members do not directly compete (e.g., in the same heat, flight, pairing) against high school prospects who are representing an outside team. [References: Bylaw 13.11.1.2 (competition against prospects); and a staff interpretation (reference: 7/19/06, item 1b), which has been archived.]

Financial Aid/Terms and Conditions/Equal Amounts of Aid

10. Equal Amounts of Aid not Required for Academic Year that Includes Final Semester/Quarter Exception. (I) The committee determined that in situations in which a student-athlete will be enrolled in less than a full-time program of studies and, thus, eligible for competition pursuant to the final semester/quarter exception during the second semester or third quarter of an academic year, the institution is not required to award the student-athlete's athletically related financial aid in equal amounts for each term of the academic year. [References: Bylaws 14.1.8.2.1.3 (final semester/quarter); 15.3.3.1 (one-year period) and 15.3.3.2 (regular academic year versus summer term); and a staff interpretation (reference: 7/19/06, item 1c), which has been archived.]

Recruiting/Letter of Intent Programs

11. Issuing Conference and Institutional Letters of Intent during the Early National Letter of Intent Signing Period. (I) The committee confirmed that an institution (including those institutions that do not subscribe to the National Letter of Intent program) may permit a

prospective student-athlete to sign an institutional or conference letter of intent during the early signing period of the National Letter of Intent in those sports that have early signing periods; however, at the conclusion of the early signing period, an institution may not permit a prospect to sign an institutional or conference letter of intent until the regular signing period of the National Letter of Intent in the applicable sport. [References: Bylaw 13.9.1 (letter of intent programs, financial aid agreements -- general restrictions) and a staff interpretation, (reference: 2/21/96, item a), which has been archived.]

12. Adjournment. The meeting adjourned at approximately 2 p.m.

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MINUTES OF THE

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

DIVISION I LEGISLATIVE REVIEW/INTERPRETATIONS COMMITTEE

Conference Call No. 3 February 21, 2007

Participants:

Brad Bertani, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thomas Hickman, Winthrop University

Shane Lyons, Atlantic Coast Conference

Janet Lucas, California State University, Northridge

Don Oberhelman, San Diego State University

Tracy Shoemake, Texas State University – San Marcos, chair

Wendy Walters, NCAA

Leeland Zeller, NCAA

Renee Baumgartner, University of Oregon; James Klein, University of Toledo;

and Ray Shackelford, Bethune-Cookman College were unable to participate.

The NCAA Division I Legislative Review/Interpretations Committee telephone conference was called to order at 3 p.m. All members were present as noted above.

Division Membership/Multidivision Classification/Reclassification from FCS to FBS

1. Application of Subdivision Rules during Reclassification Process. (I) The committee determined that a football championship subdivision institution that is in the process of reclassification to the football bowl subdivision may apply all football bowl subdivision legislation (e.g., maximum financial aid limits, maximum contest limit) during the reclassification compliance period. [References: Bylaws 20.4.2.2 (compliance with criteria), 20.4.2.2.1 (additional requirements) and 20.4.3.1 (championships eligibility).]