Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Boise State Program Halts International Recruitment

Boise State Imposes Two-Year Ban for Track Program

International students are a big part of many NCAA programs, however, recruiting internationals can be more complicated that recruiting domestic students.  International students need Visa's, I-20's, financial guarantees, TOEFL scores and that is just on the admissions side of things.  The leagues and the competitions oversees often push the limits of what is considered 'amateur' competition, and that, combined with many internationals students delaying their enrollment cause the international students to often run into NCAA amateurism issues as well.  It seems to be an interesting self-imposed penalty on Boise State's part, but certainly does not have to be an overly detrimental  penalty for the track program.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Cost of an NCAA Major Violation

Boise State Puts 200K Into Investigation

 It recently came out that Boise State has spent over $200,000 on outside council to defend themselves against the 22 allegations their program faces.  The school has sought the services of two separate law firms that specialize in NCAA compliance cases since they were first informed of the allegations nearly two years ago.  The law firms, combined with the efforts of in-house legal council and compliance staff, drafted a 1,500 page response to the NCAA allegations. Despite the money and the man hours that have gone into BSU's defense, the school has still self-imposed penalties as a proactive response to the allegations.  It remains a possibility that the school can still face additional penalties after appearing before the NCAA Committee on Infractions later this summer.  All in all, it goes to show that you can invest a great deal of time and money into an infractions defense and still not get off the hook without any penalties; which goes to show that following the rules from the start is the way to be.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Incoming Student: Housing Information

Yesterday was the deadline for incoming students who had already filed housing applications to pay their $175 housing rent confirmation fee.  If your team had an incoming student who still needed to pay the charge, we worked with you throughout the later part of last week to get you that information.  We are happy to report that everyone paid the charge and no one was dropped from housing.

From this point forward, once a student files their housing application, they will have seven days from the date the rent charges are posted to pay the $175.  If the student fails to pay the charges within that period of time, their housing application will be cancelled. If you are still adding incoming students to your list, please work with them and pass this information along.  On campus housing space will be valuable again this upcoming year and we would hate for someone to miss their deadline and get dropped from housing.

Here is some additional information regarding housing:
Residence Life: Incoming Student FAQ

Monday, May 9, 2011

NAU Spring Finals Week Information

NAU Dining Hours

All, please take a look the attached dining schedule for this week.  The last meal covered under the on-campus meal plans will be Dinner on Friday May 13th.

All on-campus students must be moved out of their dorm space by Friday May 13th at 10:00AM.  Please be sure to inform your on-campus students of these important deadlines.

If you have student-athlete's who took part in the Textbook Rental Program, rental textbooks are due back to the bookstore by the end of the day Tuesday May 17th.  If the books are not returned by then, the credit card they put down as a deposit will be charged for the balance of the book.

We hope all of your finals week activities go well.  Good luck to our graduating Seniors and we wish everyone a good summer!!!

Compliance Tip of the Week


Strike Zone is a baseball student-athlete at Ocean State College (OSC).  Strike is going to transfer to another institution this fall and has received permission to contact other institutions.  One of the schools that is recruiting Strike is Bay State University (BSU).  The coaches at BSU are hosting a few summer camps in June and July and would like Strike to work the camps.  Is it permissible for Strike to work the camps?




No.  NCAA Staff Interpretation- 5/2/11- Four-Year College Transfer Employed at Institutional Camp (I)- states that a four-year college student-athlete who has received written permission to contact another NCAA institution is considered a senior prospective student-athlete. Therefore, such an individual may not be employed (either on a salaried or volunteer basis) at an institutional football camp. In sports other than football, such an individual may not be employed at an institutional camp (either on a salaried or volunteer basis) if he or she is being recruited by that institution or if he or she was a high school, preparatory-school or two-year college athletics award winner.