DEFINITIONS
You are a "representative of athletics interests" (i.e. booster) if you have at any time:
•Been a member of a sports booster club (i.e. Cowboy Club, Tipoff Club, Quarterback Club);
•Made a donation to any of the McNeese athletic programs;
•Arranged for or provided employment for McNeese student-athletes;
•Assisted in promoting the McNeese Athletic program
Once you have been identified as a booster, you retain that identify forever.
Prospective Student-Athlete (PSA)
A prospective student-athlete is a person who has begun classes for the ninth grade. Since it is possible for a younger student-athlete to be considered a prospect, it is a good idea to treat all athletes as prospects until you have had an opportunity to verify the student-athlete's status.
Contact
A "contact" is defined as any face-to-face encounter between a prospect or the prospect's parents or legal guardian and an institutional staff member or representative of athletics interests during which any dialogue in excess of an exchange or greeting occurs. Any encounter that is prearranged or that takes place on the site of organized competition or practice involving the PSA or his/her high school, prep school, two-year college or all-star team is considered a "contact" regardless of the conversation (including a greeting) that occurs.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT RULES
Only coaches and designated athletics departmental staff can be involved in the recruiting process. Boosters cannot provide "extra benefits" or special arrangements to prospects or enrolled student-athletes.
Therefore, you MAY NOT provide:
•Cash or loans in any amount
•Co-sign or arrange for a loan
•Gifts (i.e. birthday, Christmas)
•Use of an automobile
•Hospitality at your home, with the exception of an occasional meal
•Free or reduced-cost services
•Transportation within or outside the campus area (i.e. from campus to your home, from the airport to campus, to summer jobs, etc.)
•Rent-free or reduced rent
•Money for a guarantee of bail or bond
•Graduation gifts of any kind
•Tickets to athletic, institutional or community events
You are permitted to:
•Contribute funds to finance athletic scholarships.
•Provide employment to current student-athletes with compensation based upon work actually performed at a rate commensurate with other employees performing similar job duties.
•Invite a student-athlete or the entire team to your home to receive an occasional meal provided the meal is given in your home and the offer is extended infrequently for special occasions (i.e. Christmas, Thanksgiving).
INFORMATION FOR FACULTY/STAFF
Definition of an Institutional Staff Member
The unethical-conduct provisions set forth in Bylaw 10.1 applicable to institutional staff
members include any individual who performs work for the institution or the athletics
department, even if the individual is a student at the institution (e.g., student manager,
student trainer) and/or does not receive compensation from the institution for performing such
services (e.g., volunteer coaches, undergraduate assistant coaches and graduate assistant
coaches).
UNETHICAL CONDUCT
Unethical conduct by a prospective or enrolled student-athlete or a current or former
institutional staff member (e.g., coach, professor, tutor, teaching assistant, student manager,
student trainer) may include, but is not limited to, the following:
a) Refusal to furnish information relevant to an investigation of a possible violation of an NCAA
regulation when requested to do so by the NCAA or the individual's institution;
b) Knowing involvement in arranging for fraudulent academic credit or false transcripts for a
prospective or an enrolled student-athlete;
c) Knowing involvement in offering or providing a prospective or an enrolled student-athlete an
improper inducement or extra benefit or improper financial aid;
d) Knowingly furnishing the NCAA or the individual's institution false or misleading information
concerning the individual's involvement in or knowledge of matters relevant to a possible
violation of an NCAA regulation; or
e) Receipt of benefits by an institutional staff member for facilitating or arranging a meeting
between a student-athlete and an agent, financial advisor or a representative of an agent or
advisor (e.g., "runner").
It is your responsibility to comply with NCAA regulations. You may be suspended without pay or terminated if found to be involved in deliberate or serious violations of NCAA regulations.
EXTRA BENEFITS
Definition of an Extra Benefit
An extra benefit is any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative
of the institution's athletics interests to provide a student- athlete or the student-athlete's
relative or friend a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. Receipt of a benefit
by student-athletes or their relatives or friends is not a violation of NCAA legislation if it is
demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institution's students or their
relatives or friends or to a particular segment of the student body (e.g., foreign students,
minority students) determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability.
Impermissible Benefits to Student-Athletes
• Typing papers or other class work at no cost
• Providing reduced-rate typing services
• Completing course work
• Allowing the use of credit cards or long distance phone cards
• Allowing the use of automobiles
• Assisting with paying bills, tickets, etc.
• Paying for a place on a student-athletes comp. admissions pass list
• Tutoring prospective student-athletes