Indiana University Athletics
Compliance Question Of The Week
Questions:
A coach is going out this weekend to evaluate prospects at a 3-day tournament.
Question 1: Can the coach sit with the parents of a prospect?
Question 2: When can the coach meet with a prospect who is participating in the tournament?
Question 3: How many recruiting opportunites will the coach use if he talks with the parents on two days, meets with the prospect at the end of the tournament, and watches the prospect play each day of the 3-day tournament?
Answers:
Answer 1: The coach can sit with the prospect's parents unless he or she coaches a sport that has a recruiting calendar and that sport is not in a contact period. For example, basketball has evaluation periods during the month of July. During these periods, the baskeball coaches are NOT permitted to have contact with a prospect or his or her parents. Also, since it is a three-day tournament, you would use up your three permissible contacts if you sat with the parents each of the three days. So, be careful!
Answer 2: Contact shall not be made with the prospect involved in competition that requires more than one day of participation until after the prospect's final contest in completed and he or she is released by the appropriate institutional authority and leaves the dressing and meeting facility. [13.1.7.2-(d)]
Answer 3: If the coach meets with the parents on days one and two of the three day tournament and meets with the prospect on day three, the coach will use up his or her three permissible contacts. No evaluations will have been used up since evaluations are only counted during the prospect's academic year (summer evaluations are unlimited). So, three recruiting opportunities were used up - all of which happened to be the three permissible contacts. If the coach met with the parents on days one and three (or on days two and three), the coach will have only used two contacts since he or she also met with the prospect on day three (all contacts on one day count as only one contact).