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OFF-CAMPUS RECRUITING
Case 1
Off Campus Recruiting Visits – Recruiting Expenses (Meals & Lodging)
SITUATION:
The baseball coach at Community College A is off campus recruiting potential student-athletes the night prior to the official signing date.
The coach provides meals and lodging for potential student-athletes in their hometown in order to shield the student-athletes from other
potential recruiters. Is this a violation of NJCAA bylaws?
ANSWER:
Yes. No funds may be expended, nor complimentary rooms provided during the off campus recruiting process.
Case 2
SITUATION: Off Campus Recruiting Visits – Recruiting Expenses (Meals)
The volleyball coach at Community College A is off campus recruiting potential student-athletes for the volleyball program.
May the coach purchase a meal for the potential student-athlete while off campus?
ANSWER:
No. On any off campus recruiting visit, the coach may not expend any funds other than the amount necessary for his/her own personal
expenses. A recruit’s expenses may only be covered while on an official on campus recruiting visit with the college.
Case 3
SITUATION: Off Campus Recruiting Visits – Recruiting Expenses (Current Student-Athletes)
The basketball coach from Community College A is on an off campus recruiting trip. May the coach take current student- athletes with
him/her on the recruiting trip?
ANSWER:
No. It is not permissible for the college to provide any transportation to a student-athlete. This would also apply to scouting trips taken by
the staff at Community College A.
FOOTBALL DEAD PERIOD
Case 1
Football Recruiting Dead Period Limitations
SITUATION:
What are the limitations within the football recruiting dead period?
ANSWER:
The dead period is that frame of time where it is not permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on or off the member
institutions campus, or to permit official or unofficial visits by prospects to the institution’s campus. The provision of complimentary admissions
to the prospect during such a dead period is prohibited. During the dead period, a coaching staff member may not serve as a speaker at or
attend a meeting or banquet at which prospects are in attendance and may not visit the prospects’ educational institution. It remains
permissible for an institutional staff member to write or telephone prospects during such a dead period.
Case 2
Football Recruiting Dead Period and the Signing Date
SITUATION:
High school Student-Athlete B has visited Community College A and desires to sign an NJCAA Letter of Intent with them.
What is the earliest date that Student-Athlete B may sign an NJCAA Letter of Intent with Community College A?
ANSWER:
Student-Athlete B may sign with Community College A at 8:00 a.m. on the NJCAA football signing date. The NJCAA football dead period
would prohibit Community College A from being present at this signing. Community College A may forward NJCAA Letters of Intent to student-
athletes prior to and/or during the dead period. There may be no in-person contact from Monday 12:01 am (local time) prior to the First
Wednesday in February until the dead period ends Friday 12:01 am (local time) following the national signing day. (Please refer to the Football
section located in Article XIII – NJCAA Championships, Tournaments, Meets & Games for more on the Dead Period.)
NOTE: All times involved will be local time. For instance, the 8:00 a.m. signing time and the midnight signing time will be the local time zone
within which that college falls.
Case 3
Football Recruiting Dead Period and Recruiting Visits
SITUATION:
Potential Athlete B is a high school athlete with a desire to play football at Community College A. When may Potential Athlete B take his
recruiting visit to Community College A.
ANSWER:
Potential Athlete B may take the recruiting visit any time prior to the dead period and any time after the dead period for NJCAA football
recruitment following their junior year of high school. Once the student-athlete signs an NJCAA Letter of Intent, he/she may not take an official
recruiting trip to that college.
