[Federated provision, FBS and FCS, divided vote]

11.7 Limitations on the Number and Duties of Coaches and Noncoaching Staff Members.

11.7.1 Designation of Coaching Category -- Sports Other than Football. An In sports other than football, an individual who coaches and either is uncompensated or receives compensation or remuneration of any sort from the institution, even if such compensation or remuneration is not designated for coaching, shall be designated as a head coach, assistant coach, graduate student coach or student assistant coach by certification of the institution.

[11.7.1.1 unchanged.]

11.7.2 Noncoaching Staff Member with Sport-Specific Responsibilities -- Sports Other than Football. A In sports other than football, a noncoaching staff member with sport-specific responsibilities (e.g., director of operations, administrative assistant) is prohibited from participating in on-court or on-field activities (e.g., assist with drills, throw batting practice, signal plays) and is prohibited from participating with or observing student-athletes in the staff member's sport who are engaged in nonorganized voluntary athletically related activities (e.g., pick-up games).

[11.7.2 unchanged.]

[11.7.3 renumbered as 11.7.2, unchanged.]

[11.7.4 renumbered as 11.7.2, unchanged.]

[11.7.4.1 renumbered as 11.7.2.0, unchanged.]

[11.7.4.1.1 renumbered as 11.7.2.0.0, unchanged.]

[11.7.4.2 through 11.7.4.6 renumbered as 11.7.2.0 through 11.7.2.4, unchanged.]

11.7.3 Football.

11.7.3.1 Technical and Tactical Instruction. In football, any institutional staff member may provide technical and tactical instruction to student-athletes. An institution may not make arrangements with an individual outside the institution (e.g., consultant, professional instructor) to provide technical or tactical instruction to student-athletes.

11.7.3.1.1 Exception -- Postseason Practice Session. An employee of a professional sports organization or team may conduct a postseason practice session per Bylaw 17.11.7.4

11.7.3.2 Limit on the Number of Off-Campus Recruiters. In bowl subdivision football, an institution may employ up to 11 institutional staff members who may contact or evaluate prospective student-athletes off campus. In championship subdivision football, an institution may employ up to 13 institutional staff members who may contact or evaluate prospective student-athletes off campus.

11.7.3.2.1 Designation of Head Coach. One institutional staff member must be designated as the head coach of the football program. The head coach must be included in the limit on the number of off-campus recruiters.

11.7.3.2.2 Requirement to Engage in On-Campus Coaching Duties. An institutional staff member must regularly engage in on-campus coaching activities with student-athletes to be designated as a permissible off-campus recruiter (see Bylaw 13.1.2.8.1).

11.7.3.2.3 Additional Off-Campus Recruiters -- National Service Academies. National service academies may employ four additional off-campus recruiters.

11.7.3.2.4 Replacement Due to Extenuating Circumstances. An institution may replace temporarily or on a limited basis one of its off-campus recruiters if the off-campus recruiter is unable to perform any or all duties because of extenuating circumstances. The replacement off-campus recruiter may perform only those recruiting duties that the replaced off-campus recruiter is unable to perform. 

11.7.3.2.5 Replacement for National, Olympic or Paralympic Team Coaches. An institution may replace an off-campus recruiter temporarily or on a limited basis when that off-campus recruiter takes a leave of absence to participate on or to coach a national team, Olympic or Paralympic team, provided the replacement is limited to a one-year period and the off-campus recruiter who is replaced performs no recruiting or other duties on behalf of the institution.

11.7.3.3 Limit on the Number of Graduate Student Coaches -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, an institution may employ up to four graduate student coaches.

11.7.3.4 Limit on the Number of Strength and Conditioning Coaches -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, not more than five strength and conditioning coaches are permitted to work with a football student-athletes in any capacity, including all workouts (required and voluntary), practices and game-related activities.

11.7.3.5 Limit on the Number of Student Assistant Coaches. The limit on the number of student assistant coaches shall be the same as the limit on the number of off-campus recruiters.

11.7.3.6 Sprint Football. Any institutional staff member may provide technical and tactical instruction to sprint football student-athletes. Sprint football coaches are prohibited from off-campus recruiting.

11.7.54 Limitations on Number of Coaches and Off-Campus Recruiters. There shall be a limit on the number of coaches (other than graduate student coaches per Bylaw 11.02.3 and student assistant coaches per Bylaw 11.02.4) who may be employed by an institution and who may contact or evaluate prospective student-athletes off campus in each sport as follows:

[11.7.5 renumbered as 11.7.4, unchanged.]

[Federated provision, FBS and FCS, divided vote]

11.02.2 Countable Coach -- Sports Other than Football. A In sports other than football, countable coach is an institutional staff member or any other individual outside the institution (e.g., consultant, professional instructor) with whom the institution has made arrangements who engages in off-campus recruiting activities or provides technical or tactical instruction related to a sport to a student-athlete at any time.

[11.02.2.2 through 11.02.2.3 renumbered as 11.02.2.1 through 11.02.2.2, unchanged.]

[Federated provision, FBS only]

11.4.4 Individual Associated with a Prospective Student-Athlete -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, during a two-year period before a prospective student-athlete's anticipated enrollment and a two-year period after the prospective student-athlete's actual enrollment, an institution shall not employ (either on a salaried or volunteer basis) or enter into a contract for future employment with an individual associated with the prospective student-athlete in any athletics department noncoaching staff position or in a strength and conditioning staff position except for a permissible off-campus recruiter or graduate student coach (see Bylaw 11.02.3).

[11.4.4.1 unchanged.]

11.4.4.2 Exception -- Reassignment. An institution may reassign an individual associated with a prospective student-athlete from a countable coaching staff an off-campus recruiter position to a noncoaching staff position or strength and conditioning staff an athletics department staff position, provided the individual has been a countable coach an off-campus recruiter or graduate student coach at the institution the previous academic year.

[Federated provision, FBS and FCS, divided vote]

13.02 Definitions and Applications.

[13.02.1 through 13.02.6 unchanged.]

13.02.7 Evaluation. Evaluation is any off-campus activity designed to assess the academic qualifications or athletics ability of a prospective student-athlete, including any visit to a prospective student-athlete's educational institution (during which no contact occurs) or the observation of a prospective student-athlete participating in any practice or competition at any site.

13.02.7.1 Evaluation Days -- Football, Men's Golf, Women's Volleyball and Women's Beach Volleyball. An evaluation day is defined as one coach off-campus recruiter engaged in the evaluation of any prospective student-athlete on one day (12:01 a.m. to midnight). Two coaches off-campus recruiters making evaluations on the same day shall use two evaluation days. See Bylaws 13.1.7.4.1, 13.1.7.9, 13.1.7.10 and 13.1.7.12.

[13.02.8 through 13.02.10 unchanged.]

13.02.11 Recruiting-Person Days -- Football. In football, a recruiting-person day is defined as one coach off-campus recruiter engaged in an off-campus recruiting activity of a football prospective student-athlete on one day (12:01 a.m. to midnight); two coaches off-campus recruiters engaged in recruiting activities on the same day shall use two recruiting-person days. Football staff members shall not exceed 140 (180 for U.S. service academies) recruiting-person days during the spring contact period. [D]

[13.02.11.1 unchanged.]

[13.02.12 through 13.02.21 unchanged.]

[Federated provision, FBS and FCS, divided vote]

13.2.8 Medical Expenses -- Football.

13.2.8.1 Medical Expenses -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, an institution may finance medical expenses (including rehabilitation and physical therapy expenses) for a prospective student-athlete who sustains an injury while participating in voluntary summer conditioning activities that are conducted by an institution's strength and conditioning coach who is not a countable coach in football (see Bylaw 13.11.3.8.1) or while participating in required summer athletic activities (see Bylaw 13.11.3.11).

13.2.8.2 Medical Expenses -- Championship Subdivision Football. In championship subdivision football, an institution may finance medical expenses (including rehabilitation and physical therapy expenses) for a prospective student-athlete who sustains an injury while participating in voluntary summer conditioning activities that are conducted by an institution’s strength and conditioning coach or a countable coach who is a certified strength and conditioning coach (see Bylaw 13.11.3.8.2) or while participating in required summer athletic activities (see Bylaw 13.11.3.11).

[Federated provision, FBS only]

13.8 Entertainment, Reimbursement and Employment of High School/College-Preparatory School/Two-Year College Coaches and Other Individuals Associated With Prospective Student-Athletes.

[13.8.1 through 13.8.3 unchanged.]

13.8.3.5 Individual Associated with a Prospective Student-Athlete -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, during a two-year period before a prospective student-athlete's anticipated enrollment and a two-year period after the prospective student-athlete's actual enrollment, an institution shall not employ (either on a salaried or a volunteer basis) or enter into a contract for future employment with an individual associated with the prospective student-athlete in any athletics department noncoaching staff position or in a strength and conditioning staff position except for a permissible off-campus recruiter or graduate student coach (see Bylaw 11.02.3).

[13.8.3.5.1 unchanged.]

13.8.3.5.2 Exception -- Reassignment. An institution may reassign an individual associated with a prospective student-athlete from a countable coaching staff an off-campus recruiter position to a noncoaching staff position or strength and conditioning staff an athletics department staff position, provided the individual has been a countable coach an off-campus recruiter at the institution for the previous academic year.

[13.8.3.6 through 13.8.3.8 unchanged.]

[Federated provision, FBS and FCS, divided vote]

13.11 Tryouts.

[13.11.1 unchanged.]

13.11.2 Permissible Activities.

[13.11.2.1 unchanged.]

13.11.2.2 On-Campus Evaluations -- Championship Subdivision Football. In championship subdivision football, an institution may conduct an evaluation of a prospective student-athlete on its campus or at a site at which it normally conducts practice or competition, under the following conditions:

[13.11.2.2-(a) through 13.11.2.2-(g) unchanged.]

(h) The evaluation may only be conducted by a countable coach an off-campus recruiter;

[13.11.2.2-(i) through 13.11.2.2-(j) unchanged.]

[13.11.2.3 through 13.11.2.4 unchanged.]

13.11.2.5 Local Sports Clubs. In sports other than basketball and football, an institution's coach may be involved in any capacity (e.g., as a participant, administrator or in instructional or coaching activities) in the same sport for a local sports club or organization located in the institution's home community, provided all prospective student-athletes participating in said activities are legal residents of the area (within a 50-mile radius of the institution). In all sports, an institution's coach may be involved in any capacity (e.g., as a participant, administrator or in instructional or coaching activities) in a sport other than the coach's sport for a local sports club or organization located in the institution's home community, provided all prospective student-athletes participating in said activities are legal residents of the area (within a 50-mile radius of the institution). Further, in clubs or organizations involving multiple teams or multiple sports, the 50-mile radius is applicable only to the team with which the institution's coach is involved; however, it is not permissible for the coach to assign a prospective student-athlete who lives outside the 50-mile area to another coach of the club. A coach also may be involved in activities with individuals who are not of a prospective student-athlete age, regardless of where such individuals reside. (In women's volleyball and women's beach volleyball, see Bylaws 13.1.7.9 and 13.1.7.10, respectively, for regulations relating to a coach's involvement with a local sports club and the permissible number of evaluation days.) [D]

[13.11.2.5.1 through 13.11.2.5.4 unchanged.]

13.11.2.5.5 Noncoaching Exception -- Staff Members with Sport-Specific Responsibilities -- Football. In football, a noncoaching staff member with sport-specific responsibilities (e.g., coach, director of operations, administrative assistant) shall not be involved in any capacity (e.g., as a participant, administrator or in instructional or coaching activities) with a football club or organization that includes prospective student-athletes.

[13.11.2.6 through 13.11.2.7 unchanged.]

13.11.3 Tryout Exceptions.

[13.11.3.1 through 13.11.3.7 unchanged.]

13.11.3.8 Voluntary Summer Conditioning -- Football.

13.11.3.8.1 Voluntary Summer Conditioning -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, a prospective student-athlete may engage in voluntary summer workouts conducted by an institution's strength and conditioning coach who is not a countable coach in football and may receive workout apparel (on an issuance and retrieval basis), provided the prospective student-athlete has signed a National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid, or the institution has received the prospective student-athlete's financial deposit in response to its offer of admission. [D]

13.11.3.8.2 Voluntary Summer Conditioning -- Championship Subdivision Football. In championship subdivision football, a prospective student-athlete may engage in voluntary summer workouts conducted by an institution's strength and conditioning coach or a countable coach who is a certified strength and conditioning coach, and may receive workout apparel (on an issuance and retrieval basis), provided the prospective student-athlete has signed a National Letter of Intent or the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid, or the institution has received the prospective student-athlete's financial deposit in response to its offer of admission. [D]

[13.11.3.8.3 through 13.11.3.8.4 unchanged.]

[13.11.3.9 through 13.11.3.11 unchanged.]

[Federated provision, FBS and FCS, divided vote]

13.12 Sports Camps and Clinics.

13.12.1 Institution's Sports Camps and Clinics.

13.12.1.1 Definition. An institution's sports camp or instructional clinic shall be any camp or clinic that is owned or operated by a member institution or an employee of the member institution's athletics department, either on or off its campus, and in which prospective student-athletes participate.

[13.12.1.1.1 through 13.12.1.1.2 unchanged.]

13.12.1.1.3 Definition of Recruited Prospective Student-Athlete -- Football. In football, for purposes of applying Bylaw 13.12, a recruited prospective student-athlete is a prospective student-athlete who has been recruited pursuant to the definition of recruiting in Bylaw 13.02.15 or the definition of a recruited prospective student-athlete pursuant to Bylaw 13.02.15.1. In addition, a football prospective student-athlete is considered a recruited prospective student-athlete if any of the following conditions have occurred:

[13.12.1.1.3-(a) through 13.12.1.1.3-(b) unchanged.]

(c) An institutional coaching staff member has had any recruiting contact [including in-person or electronic contact (e.g., telephone calls, video conference, electronic correspondence)] with the prospective student-athlete (including contact initiated by the prospective student-athlete);

[13.12.1.1.3-(d) through 13.12.1.1.3-(e) unchanged.]

[13.12.1.1.4 through 13.12.1.1.7 unchanged.]

[13.12.1.2 through 13.12.1.4 unchanged.]

13.12.1.5 Recruiting Calendar Exceptions. Generally, the interaction during sports camps and clinics between prospective student-athletes and those coaches employed by the camp or clinic is not subject to the recruiting calendar restrictions. However, an institutional staff member employed at any camp or clinic (e.g., counselor, director) is prohibited from recruiting any prospective student-athlete during the time period that the camp or clinic is conducted (from the time the prospective student-athlete reports to the camp or clinic until the conclusion of all camp activities). The prohibition against recruiting includes extending written offers of financial aid to any prospective student-athlete during the prospective student-athlete's attendance at the camp or clinic (see Bylaw 13.9.3.2). Other coaches who attend the camp or clinic as observers must comply with appropriate recruiting contact and evaluation periods. In addition, institutional camps or clinics may not be conducted during a dead period or a recruiting shutdown.

[13.12.1.5.1 through 13.12.1.5.3 unchanged.]

13.12.1.5.4 Exception -- Recruiting Conversations -- Football. In football, an institutional coaching staff member who is permissibly employed at a camp or clinic (see Bylaws 13.12.2.3.4 and 13.12.2.3.5) may engage in recruiting conversations with a prospective student-athlete during the time period that the camp or clinic is conducted (from the time the prospective student-athlete reports to the camp or clinic until the conclusion of all camp activities).

[13.12.1.5.5 through 13.12.1.5.7 unchanged.]

[13.12.1.6 through 13.12.1.7 unchanged.]

13.12.2 Employment at Camp or Clinic.

[13.12.2.1 unchanged.]

13.12.2.2 High School, Preparatory School, Two-Year College Coaches or Other Individuals Involved With Prospective Student-Athletes. A member institution (or employees of its athletics department) may employ a high school, preparatory school or two-year college coach or any other individual responsible for teaching or directing an activity in which a prospective student-athlete is involved at its camp or clinic, provided: [R]

[13.12.2.2-(a) through 13.12.2.2-(b) unchanged.]

[13.12.2.2.1 through 13.12.2.2.4 unchanged.]

13.12.2.2.5 Individual Associated With a Recruited Prospective Student-Athlete -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, an institution or staff member shall not employ (either on a volunteer or paid basis) an individual associated with a recruited prospective student-athlete (see Bylaws 13.02.15.1, 13.02.21 and 13.12.1.1.3) at the institution's camp or clinic (including a coaches clinic or a camp or clinic involving nonprospects), unless at least two years (24 months) have elapsed since the prospective student-athlete's initial full-time enrollment at the institution. (See Bylaws 13.2.1.5 and 13.12.4.)

13.12.2.2.5.1 Exception -- Coach Off-Campus Recruiter of Four-Year, NCAA Member Institution -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, an institution or staff member may employ a coach an off-campus recruiter of another four-year, NCAA member institution at the institution's camp or clinic regardless of whether the coach recruiter is an individual associated with a recruited prospective student-athlete.

13.12.2.3 Athletics Staff Members. A member institution's athletics staff member may be involved in sports camps or clinics unless otherwise prohibited in this section. [D]

[13.12.2.3.1 through 13.12.2.3.3 unchanged.]

13.12.2.3.4 Institutional or Noninstitutional, Privately Owned Camps/Clinics -- Bowl Subdivision Football. In bowl subdivision football, an institution's coach off-campus recruiter (including a graduate student coach who has successfully completed the rules education requirement per Bylaw 11.5.1) may be employed (either on a salaried or volunteer basis) in any capacity (e.g., counselor, guest lecturer, consultant) only by the institution's camps or clinics or another four-year, NCAA member institution's camps or clinics. A noncoaching athletics department staff member with responsibilities specific to football may be employed only by the institution’s camps or clinics. Employment in such a camp or clinic is limited to 10 days in the months of June [or any days (other than during a dead period) of a calendar week (Sunday through Saturday) that includes days in June (e.g., May 28-June 3)] and July. It is not permissible for a football coach off-campus recruiter to be employed at a noninstitutional, privately owned camp or clinic. It is not permissible for a noncoaching staff member with responsibilities specific to football to be employed at other institutional camps or clinics or at noninstitutional, privately owned camps or clinics. [D]

13.12.2.3.5 Institutional or Noninstitutional, Privately Owned Camps/Clinics -- Championship Subdivision Football. In championship subdivision football, an institution's coach or noncoaching athletics department staff member with responsibilities specific to football may be employed (either on a salaried or volunteer basis) in any capacity (e.g., counselor, guest lecturer, consultant) only by the institution's camps or clinics or another four-year, NCAA member institution's camps or clinics. Employment in such a camp or clinic may occur only in June [or any days (other than during a dead period) of a calendar week (Sunday through Saturday) that includes days in June (e.g., May 28-June 3)] and July. It is not permissible for a football coach or noncoaching athletics department staff member with responsibilities specific to football to be employed at a noninstitutional, privately owned camp or clinic. [D]

[13.12.2.3.6 through 13.12.2.3.11 unchanged.]

[13.12.3 through 13.12.4 unchanged.]

[Federated provision, FCS only]

17.1.7 Time Limits for Athletically Related Activities. In all sports, the following time limitations shall apply:

[17.1.7.1 unchanged.]

17.1.7.2 Weekly Hour Limitations -- Outside of the Playing Season.

[17.1.7.2-(a) through 17.1.7.2-(c) unchanged.]

17.1.7.2.1 Institutional Vacation Period and Summer. A student-athlete may not participate in any countable athletically related activities outside the playing season during any institutional vacation period and/or summer. Strength and conditioning coaches who are not countable coaches in the student-athlete's sport may design and conduct specific workout programs for a student-athlete, provided such workouts are voluntary and conducted at the request of the student-athlete.

17.1.7.2.1.1 Exception -- Championship Subdivision Football. In championship subdivision football, countable coaches who are certified strength and conditioning coaches may design and conduct specific workout programs for student-athletes, provided such workouts are voluntary and conducted at the request of the student-athlete.

[17.1.7.2.1.2 through 17.1.7.2.1.6 unchanged.]

[17.1.7.2.2 through 17.1.7.2.4 unchanged.]

[17.1.7.3 through 17.1.7.12 unchanged.]