Compliance Tip of the Week #7

This weeks Tip of the Week concerns book scholarship and the recent adoption of NCAA proposal 2010-75.  Below is the actual text of how the bylaw will read, but to sum things up, when calculating scholarship values the cost of books will be changing from the current $400 to $800.  Also, once this becomes effective any student recieving any portion of a books scholarship will be counted as $800/$800; in other words, there are no longer any partial books scholarships (for purposes of calculating the equivalency).

Practically, if you are an equivalency sport and you are offering a student a partial scholarship with no books, it will decrease all of the other values in that student's equivalency.  Similarly, if you are offering a student a partial scholarship with books, it will bump that value up a little bit.  And for students on a full scholarship, obviously it will have no effect.
Please note that proposal 2010-75 has an effective date of August 1st, 2013.

Here is the text of the legislation:

Bylaws: Amend 15.5.3.2.1, as follows:

15.5.3.2.1 Additional Requirements. The following additional requirements shall apply to equivalency computations: 
[15.5.3.2.1-(a) through 15.5.3.2.1-(b) unchanged.]
(c) Books shall count for calculation purposes as $400 800 in the denominator.  If a student-athlete receives any portion of a full book allowance for the academic year, the institution must use $400 800 in the denominator and numerator for books, regardless of the actual cost of the books.  If a student-athlete receives less than the full book allowance, the institution must determine the fraction of book aid and must use the appropriate numerator based on the $400 denominator to reflect the fraction of the book allowance actually received.

And here is an interesting link that discusses the impact of 2010-75:

CCACA Discussion of 2010-75

If you are interested in hearing more about Proposals from this years legislative cycle with effective dates of August 1, 2011, please come to the Legislative Review session next Tuesday February 15th at 11:00AM.  The Review will be held in the conference room at the Athletics South facility.