Contacts

Rules

• The maximum number of permissible off-campus contacts used by an institution for a multisport prospective student-athlete may not exceed the specific limit set forth in Bylaw 13.1.7 for the particular sport.
  
  
• When an institution is recruiting a prospective student-athlete in more than one sport (other than football), the use of an off-campus recruiting contact by a coach in one sport reduces not only the number of permissible contacts, but also the total number of recruiting opportunities that are available to the institution in a second sport.

Examples

1. If an institution's football coach and track coach contact a prospect, the institution would use only one institutional contact; however, the track coach may not engage in more than three off-campus contacts, even if the coach is making a contact on the same day as the football coach. Further, if the football coach already has contacted the prospect on six occasions, the track coach would only have one remaining contact.
   
   
2. If an institution is recruiting a prospect in the sports of field hockey and softball and the institution's field hockey coach has an off-campus recruiting contact with the prospect, the total number of recruiting opportunities available to the institution's softball coaches with the prospect is reduced from seven to six, with no more than two of those opportunities being off-campus contacts.

Evaluations

• The limitations on evaluations (13.1.9) are sport specific; therefore, a prospect being recruited by an institution in more than one sport may be evaluated on the permissible number of occasions in each of those sports during the academic year. Evaluations are counted against the sport of the coach making the evaluation.