Staff Interpretation---Activities at an Off-Campus Practice or Competition Facility during an Unofficial Visit

Staff Interpretation
Activities at an Off-Campus Practice or Competition Facility during an Unofficial Visit

Date Published: May 26, 2010

Interpretation:

The academic and membership affairs staff determined that the following activities at an off-campus practice or competition facility are permissible during an unofficial visit, provided the prospective student-athlete visits the institution's campus during the unofficial visit:

a. The unofficial visit may begin or end at an off-campus practice or competition facility (e.g., golf course, boathouse);

b. The prospective student-athlete is permitted to eat a meal at an off-campus practice or competition facility, provided he or she pays the actual cost of the meal; and

c. Contact during the unofficial visit between institutional staff members or student-athletes and the prospective student-athlete at an off-campus practice or competition facility is not considered an off-campus contact.

Dead Period --Men's Basketball

Dead Period

Sport -- Men’s basketball
Dates -- Thu., May 20 through Fri., May 28

This dead period begins the day after the last day of the spring NLI signing period and runs to the day before the first permissible day to conduct institutional basketball camps.

Permissible recruiting activities

•Correspondence to prospects not at a competition site.
•Correspondence (including electronic correspondence) sent directly to a prospect who is on-call but not at the competition site or who has been released by the team.
•No correspondence to prospects who are on-call and at their competition site.
•Telephone calls:
‣One call in April to high school juniors.
‣ Two calls per week to high school seniors.
‣One call per week to two-year and four-year college prospects.
•Evaluation at the NBA Pre-Draft Camp (held May 19-23).