Division I Enforcement: Basketball Trends and Issues

1. Division I Enforcement: Basketball Trends and Issues Angie Cretors Abby Grantstein

2. Introduction

3. Overview • Purpose • The enforcement basketball staff will discuss current trends and cases involving agents/advisors and other basketball enforcement-related issues. • The staff will also highlight recent legislation, interpretations and outreach initiatives that will assist institutions in approaching basketball and agent related issues on-campus.

4. Enforcement Men’s Basketball Staff LuAnn Humphrey Angie Cretors Abby Grantstein lhumphrey@ncaa.org acretors@ncaa.org agrantstein@ncaa.org Ken Huber Jason Singleton Frank Smith khuber@ncaa.org jsingleton@ncaa.org fsmith@ncaa.org

5. Enforcement Women’s Basketball Staff LuAnn Humphrey Elizabeth Ramsey Cindi Merrill lhumphrey@ncaa.org eramsey@ncaa.org cmerrill@ncaa.org

6. Enforcement Basketball Staff: Focus • Development of Information. • Outreach Initiatives. • Investigations and processing of violations.

7. Current Trends and Issues • Agents/Advisors. • Third Parties. • Nontraditional Boosters. • Parent/Coach Relocations.

8. Agents and Advisors

9. Agents/Advisors Bylaws 12.02.1 and 12.02.1.1 • NCAA Bylaw 12.02.1 *NEW* (Adopted: 1/14/12) • An agent is any individual who, directly or indirectly: • Represents or attempts to represent an individual for the purpose of marketing his or her athletics ability or reputation for financial gain; or • Seeks to obtain any type of financial gain or benefit from securing a prospective student-athlete’s enrollment at an educational institution or from a student-athlete’s potential earnings as a professional athlete.

10. Agents/Advisors Bylaws 12.02.1 and 12.02.1.1 • NCAA Bylaw 12.02.1.1 *NEW* (Adopted: 01/14/12) • An agent may include, but is not limited to, a certified contract advisor, financial advisor, marketing representative, brand manager or any one who is employed or associated with such persons.

11. Agents/Advisors Bylaws 12.02.1 and 12.02.1.1 • The definition is not intended to include: • Parents or legal guardians, • Athletics department staff members, • Former teammates or • Those individuals who have the best interest of the prospective student-athlete or student-athlete in mind in providing assistance or information, Provided • They do not intend to receiving financial gain for their assistance.

12. Agents/AdvisorsCurrent Issues and Trends • Involvement with nonscholastic teams • Funding • Team administrators • Coaches • Relationships with former student-athletes, head and assistant coaches. • Best practice: Communicate with coaches, student-athletes and prospects regarding relationships with agents and advisors.

13. Agents/AdvisorsCurrent Issues and Trends • Suggested Monitoring Efforts: • Complimentary admissions records. • Individuals receiving coaches’ discretionary tickets. • Individuals given access to practice, locker rooms, etc. • Men’s basketball staff telephone records. • Tracking representation of former student-athletes. • Individuals consistently present around student-athletes.

14. Third Parties

15. Third Parties – Issues and Trends • Includes financial advisors, marketing representatives and brand managers. (See NCAA Bylaw 12.02.1.1) • Individuals insert themselves into the prospect’s recruiting process offering assistance and guidance to the family as well as connections to college coaches. • Development of relationships with nonscholastic teams, student-athletes, prospects and their family members.

16. Third Parties – Issues and Trends • Provision of impermissible benefits including: • Payment for visits to campus • Employment/relocation arrangements • Cash, loans, gifts • Automobiles • Often an agent is also involved with these relationships and the provision of benefits is funneled through the third party.

17. Third Parties – Best Practices • Communicate with men’s basketball staff – they know who is involved with prospects and student-athletes. • Review complimentary admissions requests. • Automobile record review. • Unofficial visit documentation. • Prospect lists/recruiting files. • Social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

18. Nontraditional Boosters

19. Nontraditional Boosters • Generally, individuals known to the coaching staff to have: • Provided benefits to a student-athlete; or • Promoted the institution or the men’s basketball program to prospects. • Coaching staff cannot accept indirectly what cannot be done directly. • Institutional control risk for failing to monitor the activities of nontraditional boosters with significant ties to sports programs.

20. Nontraditional Boosters • Best Practices: • Communicate with men’s basketball staff regarding individuals involved with student-athletes who are promoting the program to the prospects. • Monitor recruiting lists – track patterns of same individuals being involved with multiple recruited prospects. • Educate men’s basketball staff on red flags related to individuals involved in recruitment with no logical tie to the prospect. • No family or coach/player relationship. • Different geographic locations. • Relationship does not pre-date the prospect’s recruitment.

21. Parent/Coach/Handler Relocations

22. Parent/Coach/Handler Relocation • An increase in parents, high school and nonscholastic coaches, and “handlers” relocating to the locale of the institution. • NCAA Bylaw 13.2.1 prohibits institutional staff members and representatives of the institution’s athletics interests from being involved directly or indirectly in making arrangements for or giving or offering to give: • An employment arrangement for a prospective student-athlete’s relatives; and • Free or reduced-cost housing. • Institutional staff members cannot directly or indirectly assist in finding or securing local housing or employment opportunities.

23. Parent/Coach/Handler Relocation • Best Practices: • Educate men’s basketball staff and representatives of the institution’s athletics interests on Bylaw 13.2.1 limits in assisting individuals moving to the locale of the institution. • Document discussions about potential relocation during recruitment process. • Ensure men’s basketball staff and boosters have no involvement in obtaining housing or employment. • Follow up on red flags regarding: • Changes in standard of living; • Qualifications for employment positions; and • Hiring procedures.

24. Legislative Updates

25. Legislative Update:Recruiting and Scouting Services • NCAA Bylaw 13.14.3.2 (Adopted: 03/14/12) • In basketball and football, an institution shall not subscribe to a recruiting or scouting service unless the service has been approved by the NCAA pursuant to an annual approval process. (Effective June 1, 2012)

26. Legislative Update:Recruiting and Scouting Services • 2012-2013 Scouting Service Approval Cycle: • June 1, 2012 – May 31, 2013 • Mandatory Submission Period: • April 1, 2012 – May 31, 2012 • A scouting service must submit an application for approval through NCAA scouting service system during this time period in order for a member institution to subscribe to the service after May 31, 2012. • If the scouting service’s application is approved, the approval will be valid until May 31, 2013.

27. Legislative Update:Recruiting and Scouting Services • The list of approved scouting services can be accessed at: http://web1.ncaa.org/scouting/school_search • An ncaa.org account is required in order to access the list. • Continued institutional responsibility to verify: • The product received is consistent with to the sample that was submitted with the scouting service online application. • The institution received information from the scouting service (e.g., reports, profiles) about prospective student-athletes at least four times per annual cycle. • The fee rate charged to the institution is the same as the fee rate listed on the NCAA approved scouting services list.

28. Legislative Update:Camp Operations – Bylaw 13.12.1.4 • In men’s basketball, an institution’s basketball camp or clinic shall not offer a different participation, registration procedure, fee structure, advertisement and/or logistical experience (e.g., lodging, meals, transportation, awards/mementos) than other institutional men’s/boys’ basketball camps or clinics. • Interpreted to mean that the experiences for all camps must be similar.

29. Legislative Update:Team Camps • Instructional component • All camps and clinics must offer a similar proportion of instruction related to other activities. • Team camps cannot consist of only competition. There must be an instructional component similar in proportion to that in other camps. • Especially important when nonscholastic teams are attending the camp to avoid hosting a nonscholastic practice or competition on campus.

30. Legislative Update:Team Camps • Registration • Common Issues: • Filtering registration applications. • Special invitations to attend camp. • Payment of registration fees by third parties. • Enforcement Monitoring (all camps) • Advertising and registration. • On-site monitoring.

31. Legislative Update:Nonscholastic Events • NCAA Bylaw 13.11.1.8 • An institution shall not host, sponsor or conduct a nonscholastic basketball practice or competition in which men’s basketball prospective student-athletes participate on its campus or at an off-campus facility regularly used by the institution for practice and/or competition by any of the institution’s sports programs.

32. Legislative Update:Nonscholastic Events • The determination of whether an event is considered scholastic or nonscholastic is based both on the status of the individual or entity conducting the event as well as the nature of the individuals or teams that participate in the event. • To be considered a scholastic activity, the event must be conducted by a scholastic entity. • Even if the event is being conducted by a scholastic entity, the event is not a scholastic event if nonscholastic teams participate.

33. Legislative Update:Nonscholastic Events – Best Practices • Determine: • Who or what organization contacted the institution or contest facility to schedule the event? • Who or what organization will be signing the facility rental agreement? • Who or what organization will be responsible for insuring the event? • Who or what organization will be advertising or promoting the event? • Work closely with facility managers in reviewing all facility rental agreements prior to signing. • Contact the enforcement basketball staff.

34. Legislative Update:Noncoaching Staff Hires • NCAA Bylaws 11.4.2 and 13.8.3.2 • In men’s basketball, during a two-year period before a prospective student-athlete’s anticipated enrollment and a two-year period after the prospective student-athlete’s actual enrollment, an institution shall not employ (or enter into a contract for future employment with) an individual associated with the prospective student-athlete in any athletics department noncoaching staff position or in a strength and conditioning staff position.

35. Legislative Update:Noncoaching Staff Hires • Trigger dates: • Date the IAWP is hired, or given an agreement for future hire, in a noncoaching staff position. • Date the prospective student-athlete is expected to or actually enrolls full-time. • Application to current NCAA, two-year and NAIA coaches – see NCAA Bylaw 13.11.1.8 Advisory. • NCAA Bylaw 13.02.17 -Duration of IAWP status: • An individual who meets the definition of an IAWP retains such status during the enrollment of the prospective student-athlete at the institution.

36. Legislative Update:Transfer of Interpretive Authority • October 2009 – Board of Directors provided enforcement staff with interpretive authority for certain issues in men’s basketball (Educational Column 10/27/2011) • April 2012 – Board approved transfer of authority to AMA. • Effective: June 15, 2012.

37. Legislative Update:Transfer of Interpretive Authority • In order to ensure consistency, AMA will: • Apply rationale supporting Board’s October 2009 actions; • Adhere to established case precedent; and • Confer with enforcement on cases of first impression.

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