Pat Knight gets Helping Hand from Father
It is being reported that Bobby Knight may have had interaction with two prospective student-athlete's being recruited by Lamar University, where Pat Knight is now the coach. We have talked a lot about this as it relates to our staff, more specifically when it comes to interaction with boosters, as is mentioned in the article. You all know that at the beginning of the year, each coaching staff submits a coaching declaration form as required by Bylaw 11.7.4. Which also limits the number of countable coaches each team can have and how many of those countable coaches can be off-campus recruiting at any one time. In order to interact with our current student-athlete's in a coaching capacity, a coach must be listed as one of that teams countable coaches. This interaction would include having any type of skill related or instructional conversations with current student-athlete's The same thing applies when talking about recruits, in order to recruit a prospect, or enter into a recruiting conversation, a coach must be declared a countable coach; additionally, they must have passed the NCAA recruiting test in order to recruit at off-campus locations. A recruiting conversation would be any discussion that is designed to elicit a prospects ultimate enrollment at NAU. This could include discussions of how a recruit would fit into the team or any discussion of offering financial aid or a scholarship to the student.
