Indiana University Athletics
Compliance Question Of The Week
Compliance Question Of The Week
Question: Is it permissible for coaches or athletics staff to refer requests for private lessons to student-athletes (since the student-athletes are not able to promote or advertise the fact that they may now give private lessons)?
Answer: Depends. If the coach refers requests for private lessons to a student-athlete, this would represent athletics intercession and would cause the off-campus employment to be considered institutional aid per 15.02.4.1-(c) and (d). The $2000 exception would apply for those student-athletes that meet the conditions (freshmen and transfers in their first year of residence at IU don't qualify for the exception).
Question: Is it permissible for coaches or athletics staff to refer requests for private lessons to student-athletes (since the student-athletes are not able to promote or advertise the fact that they may now give private lessons)?
Answer: Depends. If the coach refers requests for private lessons to a student-athlete, this would represent athletics intercession and would cause the off-campus employment to be considered institutional aid per 15.02.4.1-(c) and (d). The $2000 exception would apply for those student-athletes that meet the conditions (freshmen and transfers in their first year of residence at IU don't qualify for the exception).
> The only suggestion to avoid athletics intercession would be to have the athletics department forward all requests for private lessons through another office on-campus (maybe rec sports?). Then, students and student-athletes could "register" with rec sports as being available to teach private lessons and when rec sports receives requests for private lessons it could just give the individual a list of the students that had registered. This way athletics would just be forwarding someone's request to a nonathletics department and would not be recommending a specific student-athlete.