Indiana University Athletics
Compliance Question Of The Week
Compliance Question Of The Week
Question:
How is the term "academic year" defined in the context of evaluations?
Answer:
1. MEN'S & WOMEN'S BASKETBALL You have very active recruiting calendars and a set number of "Recruiting Days", and the counting of those days covers the period between when IU starts classes and when IU ends finals. So, for this year, 2008-2009 for example, women's basketball has 100 recruiting days covering the period from Tuesday September 2nd, 2008, when classes began here, to Friday May 8th, 2009 when Finals are over. This period is all inclusive and includes all official IU Vacation periods between those dates. Men have 130 within that same time frame.
2. VOLLEYBALL AND SOFTBALL Softball's 50 days, and Volleyball's 80 days go from August 1st to July 31st every year. Just to be tricky.
3. FOOTBALL Your rules are different, as we all know. But your spring and fall evals have to fit within the prospect's academic year. Contacts in Winter don't.
4. OTHER SPORTS You only have to consider your specific Dead Periods, (except Baseball and CC/Track and Field - you have active calendars too, though no "recruiting day" limits. Yet) and thus should concentrate on # 5 below.
5. THE PROSPECT So, now let's talk about the PROSPECT and what THEIR version of the "Academic Year" is! Well, it's certainly no surprise that because the limits on evaluations are designed to `protect' the prospects, the number of permissible evaluations and/or visits to a high school are based around the prospect's academic year, not IU's. So, if a prospect player began his/her high school senior (or junior year, etc.) year on August 18th, 2008 and finished his/her year on May 29th, 2009, then we have no more than seven evaluations during that time frame. The "freedom" of summer evaluations, (for some) where the individual limits are lifted, do NOT begin until that prospect is officially out of high school.
Question:
How is the term "academic year" defined in the context of evaluations?
Answer:
1. MEN'S & WOMEN'S BASKETBALL You have very active recruiting calendars and a set number of "Recruiting Days", and the counting of those days covers the period between when IU starts classes and when IU ends finals. So, for this year, 2008-2009 for example, women's basketball has 100 recruiting days covering the period from Tuesday September 2nd, 2008, when classes began here, to Friday May 8th, 2009 when Finals are over. This period is all inclusive and includes all official IU Vacation periods between those dates. Men have 130 within that same time frame.
2. VOLLEYBALL AND SOFTBALL Softball's 50 days, and Volleyball's 80 days go from August 1st to July 31st every year. Just to be tricky.
3. FOOTBALL Your rules are different, as we all know. But your spring and fall evals have to fit within the prospect's academic year. Contacts in Winter don't.
4. OTHER SPORTS You only have to consider your specific Dead Periods, (except Baseball and CC/Track and Field - you have active calendars too, though no "recruiting day" limits. Yet) and thus should concentrate on # 5 below.
5. THE PROSPECT So, now let's talk about the PROSPECT and what THEIR version of the "Academic Year" is! Well, it's certainly no surprise that because the limits on evaluations are designed to `protect' the prospects, the number of permissible evaluations and/or visits to a high school are based around the prospect's academic year, not IU's. So, if a prospect player began his/her high school senior (or junior year, etc.) year on August 18th, 2008 and finished his/her year on May 29th, 2009, then we have no more than seven evaluations during that time frame. The "freedom" of summer evaluations, (for some) where the individual limits are lifted, do NOT begin until that prospect is officially out of high school.