Indiana University Athletics
Compliance Question Of The Week
Compliance Question Of The Week
Question:
When can I take a visit to a prospect's home to show `em my style and other stuff? What can I take?
Answer:
Home Visits are an important part of the recruiting process for many, and may occur anytime after the date on which you can first permissibly have contact with your senior prospects.
For many, that's July 1st between the junior/senior year in High School.
For Football, it's not until "the Sunday following the last Saturday in November". (11/29 this year).
For Men's Basketball, it's on or after September 9th of this year for their 2010 prospects.
For Women's Basketball, it's September 16th - the fall contact period.
Softball and Volleyball can't contact until August 1st.
Baseball gets contact on or after "the Friday following the second Thursday of September" - Sept 11 this year.
Cross Country/ T+F can't have contact until Sunday 9th August.
OK, so now you know WHEN you can START to go have contact (check the end dates). What else do you need to know:
- On any single day of off-campus contact you have unlimited phone calling. Please note this on your CyberWeb or recruiting folder/logs so we know that you were having permissible off-campus contact and that's why there were more calls that day.
- You may not give anything of tangible value to the prospect or his/her family, nor leave CDs, DVDs, tapes, etc. You can SHOW them stuff (a non-personalized uniform maybe) but never leave - or sell anything. - If you want to show them an array of photographs, the rules ACTUALLY say that you cannot organize these into a scrapbook or a picture-show, but you can show them in a non-organized fashion. Hey, remember: I just work here. Showing them on a computer presentation (see below) is OK.
- If something is available generally to the IU prospective student body, you may leave it there....like the Admissions DVD or a Viewbook (assuming they haven't already had/been sent one). Same with a Media Guide, etc - but they still only get one per year. No doubles!
- You can eat there, etc. and take what you want (within reason) but may not give. Like a kid at Christmas. If you meet at a restaurant or something, you may not pay for anything for anyone, including their coaches.
- Any video shown HAS to fit into the "Highlight Video" rules in bylaw 13.4.2 - basically, game footage only (it's pasted below for your edification, and you can always go HERE, hit the tab and go to Legislation, then type in the bylaw and you can see it live - no log in needed)
- On the video....no recruiting testimonials, practice clips, "players-at-home" clips, travel clips, etc. It is competition stuff and facility stuff only. The more a thing is open and available to the general public (i.e. already posted on our website) the more it can be shown to prospects. Still photos of any stuff are OK to have in the video/computer presentation.
- Remember that these Video rules apply to film shown to prospects on campus too - no film shown to prospects anywhere should have non-competition related footage on there, including no practice activities that aren't "pre-game".
So, what about Computer Presentations...?
Bylaw 13.4.2.4 is also presented below, with important keys being:
i. Same video rules apply - "game clips" only.
ii. No extra sound or comments not available with the software or on the permissible game clips.
iii. Must be created by an IU employee / entity.
iv. Can NOT be personalized to the prospect in any way.
v. May not be "left" there but CAN be posted on the website for further viewing.
Question:
When can I take a visit to a prospect's home to show `em my style and other stuff? What can I take?
Answer:
Home Visits are an important part of the recruiting process for many, and may occur anytime after the date on which you can first permissibly have contact with your senior prospects.
For many, that's July 1st between the junior/senior year in High School.
For Football, it's not until "the Sunday following the last Saturday in November". (11/29 this year).
For Men's Basketball, it's on or after September 9th of this year for their 2010 prospects.
For Women's Basketball, it's September 16th - the fall contact period.
Softball and Volleyball can't contact until August 1st.
Baseball gets contact on or after "the Friday following the second Thursday of September" - Sept 11 this year.
Cross Country/ T+F can't have contact until Sunday 9th August.
OK, so now you know WHEN you can START to go have contact (check the end dates). What else do you need to know:
- On any single day of off-campus contact you have unlimited phone calling. Please note this on your CyberWeb or recruiting folder/logs so we know that you were having permissible off-campus contact and that's why there were more calls that day.
- You may not give anything of tangible value to the prospect or his/her family, nor leave CDs, DVDs, tapes, etc. You can SHOW them stuff (a non-personalized uniform maybe) but never leave - or sell anything. - If you want to show them an array of photographs, the rules ACTUALLY say that you cannot organize these into a scrapbook or a picture-show, but you can show them in a non-organized fashion. Hey, remember: I just work here. Showing them on a computer presentation (see below) is OK.
- If something is available generally to the IU prospective student body, you may leave it there....like the Admissions DVD or a Viewbook (assuming they haven't already had/been sent one). Same with a Media Guide, etc - but they still only get one per year. No doubles!
- You can eat there, etc. and take what you want (within reason) but may not give. Like a kid at Christmas. If you meet at a restaurant or something, you may not pay for anything for anyone, including their coaches.
- Any video shown HAS to fit into the "Highlight Video" rules in bylaw 13.4.2 - basically, game footage only (it's pasted below for your edification, and you can always go HERE, hit the tab and go to Legislation, then type in the bylaw and you can see it live - no log in needed)
- On the video....no recruiting testimonials, practice clips, "players-at-home" clips, travel clips, etc. It is competition stuff and facility stuff only. The more a thing is open and available to the general public (i.e. already posted on our website) the more it can be shown to prospects. Still photos of any stuff are OK to have in the video/computer presentation.
- Remember that these Video rules apply to film shown to prospects on campus too - no film shown to prospects anywhere should have non-competition related footage on there, including no practice activities that aren't "pre-game".
So, what about Computer Presentations...?
Bylaw 13.4.2.4 is also presented below, with important keys being:
i. Same video rules apply - "game clips" only.
ii. No extra sound or comments not available with the software or on the permissible game clips.
iii. Must be created by an IU employee / entity.
iv. Can NOT be personalized to the prospect in any way.
v. May not be "left" there but CAN be posted on the website for further viewing.