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This seems like it would affect the pole vault disproportionately. There is a whole bylaw (11.7.4.2.3.4) that allows schools that sponsor the pole vault to have an additional volunteer coach just for this event.


Here is the proposal that was adopted, click the link to see what was added and what was removed from the rules.

http://www.ncaa.org/library/membership/ ... vision.pdf

Proposal No. 2005-77-B
Intent statement and bylaw sections revised as follows:
Intent: In sports other than football, to specify that all recruiting coordination functions shall be
performed by head or assistant coaches.



Here is what the current rulebook now says.
From the LSDBi Database on the NCAA Website:

11.01.5 Coach, Volunteer
In sports other than football and basketball, a volunteer coach is any coach who does not receive compensation or remuneration from the institution's athletics department or any organization funded in whole or in part by the athletics department or that is involved primarily in the promotion of the institution's athletics program (e.g., booster club, athletics foundation association). The following provisions shall apply: (Revised: 1/10/92 effective 8/1/92, 4/26/01 effective 8/1/01)
(a) The individual is prohibited from contacting and evaluating prospective student-athletes off campus or from scouting opponents off campus and may not perform recruiting coordination functions (see Bylaw 11.7.1.2). (Revised: 1/16/93, 1/11/94, 5/26/06)
(b) The individual may receive a maximum of two complimentary tickets to home athletics contests in the coach's sport. (Revised: 1/16/93)
(c) The individual may receive complimentary meals incidental to organized team activities (e.g., pre- or postgame meals, occasional meals, but not training table meals) or meals provided during a prospective student-athlete's official visit, provided the individual dines with the prospective student-athlete.  (Adopted: 4/29/04 effective 8/1/04; Revised: 1/10/05, effective 8/1/05)

11.7.1.2 Recruiting Coordination Functions
All recruiting coordination functions (except routine clerical tasks) must be performed by the head coach or one or more of the assistant coaches who count toward the numerical limitations in Bylaw 11.7.4.  Such functions include:  (Revised:  4/27/06 effective 8/1/06)
(a) Activities involving athletics evaluation and/or selection of prospects.
(b) Telephone calls to prospective student-athletes (or prospective student-athletes' parents, legal guardians or coaches).
(c) Preparation of general recruiting correspondence to prospective student-athletes (or prospective student-athletes' parents or legal guardians).



How is your school interpreting this?

http://ustfccca.cstv.com/sports/divisio ... 06aaf.html

NCAA Interpretation on Coaching Limitations - Recruiting






Aug. 14, 2006

The Following is the interpretation of NCAA Division I Legislative Proposal 2005-77-B that has been published by the NCAA. This legislation went into effect August 1st, 2006.

Presently, the interpretation excludes volunteer coaches as described under NCAA bylaws 11.7.4.2.3.3 and 11.7.4.2.3.4 from being able to participate in the recruiting process. The interpretation restricts those coaches on an institution's staff who can recruit to those described under bylaw 11.7.4 only.

The USTFCCCA is presently preparing a position paper in regard to this interpretation for presentation to the NCAA recruiting subcommittee requesting that volunteer coaches under NCAA bylaws 11.7.4.2.3.3 and 11.7.4.2.3.4 be accepted within the numerical limitations of bylaw 11.7.4.

Our office will keep you updated on the results as we try to work through the NCAA process on this item.

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2006 Educational Column -- NCAA Division I Bylaw 11.7.1.2 - Recruiting Coordination Functions (I)

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Date Issued: Jul 27, 2006
Type: Ed. Column
Item Ref: 1

Interpretation: Generate Archive Request

NCAA Division I institutions should note that with the adoption of NCAA Division I Proposal No. 2005-77-B, effective August 1, 2006, all recruiting coordination functions (except routine clerical tasks) must be performed by a coach who counts toward the numerical limitations of head or assistant coaches (NCAA Division I Bylaw 11.7.4) in all sports. Such functions include:

1. Activities involving athletics evaluation and/or selection of prospective student-athletes.





2. Telephone calls to prospective student-athletes (or prospective student-athletes' parents, legal guardians or coaches).

3. Preparation of general recruiting correspondence to prospective student-athletes (or prospective student-athletes' parents or legal guardians).

Further, inasmuch as telephone calls are a recruiting-coordination activity, it is not permissible for athletics department staff members (other than a coach who counts toward the numerical limitations of head or assistant coaches or other specific staff members pursuant to legislated exceptions), including volunteer coaches (Bylaw 11.01.5), to make calls to or receive calls from prospects (or the prospects' parents, legal guardians, or coaches) that may involve conversations related to the recruitment of the prospects. In Division I-A football and women's rowing, such telephone calls also may be made by the graduate assistant coach, provided the coach has successfully completed the coaches' certification examination per Bylaw 11.5.1.1.

It is also important to note that with the adoption of Proposal No. 2005-77-B, the exceptions noted in Bylaw 13.1.3.4.1.1, which permitted noncoaching institutional staff members to make telephone calls to prospective student-athletes in football under specified conditions, now apply to all sports. The following institutional staff members may continue to make telephone calls to or receive telephone calls from prospective student-athletes (or the prospective student-athlete's parents or legal guardians) as specified:

1. President or chancellor/director of athletics. It is permissible for an institution's president or chancellor and director of athletics to return (as opposed to initiate) telephone calls from prospective student-athletes (or the prospective student-athletes' parents or legal guardian). Under such circumstances, there are no restrictions on the content of the conversation that may occur during the call; however, any return call is subject to any applicable limitations on the number of telephone calls that an institution may place to prospective student-athletes.

2. Academic advisors. It is permissible for academic advisors (including academic advisors within the athletics department) to make calls to or receive calls from prospective student-athletes (or the prospective student-athlete's parents or legal guardians) related to admissions or academic issues, subject to any applicable limitation on the number of telephone calls an institution may place to prospective student-athletes.

3. Compliance coordinators. It is permissible for a compliance coordinator to return telephone calls from prospective student-athletes with no limit on the timing or number of such telephone calls, provided the calls relate only to compliance issues. It is permissible for a compliance coordinator to initiate telephone calls to a prospective student-athlete, provided the calls relate only to compliance issues and such calls occur subsequent to the prospective student-athlete's signing a National Letter of Intent with that institution (or, for those institutions not subscribing to the National Letter of Intent, subsequent to the prospective student-athlete's signed acceptance of the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid).

4. Noncoaching staff members with sport specific responsibilities. It is permissible for a noncoaching staff member with sport specific responsibilities to initiate and receive telephone calls from prospective student-athletes, provided the calls relate only to general pre-enrollment administrative issues and such calls occur subsequent to the prospective student-athlete's signing a National Letter of Intent with that institution (or, for those institutions not subscribing to the National Letter of Intent, subsequent to the prospective student-athlete's signed acceptance of the institution's written offer of admission and/or financial aid).

Finally, institutions are reminded that electronically transmitted correspondence (e.g., electronic mail, instant messenger, facsimiles, pages, text messaging) must be prepared by a coach who counts toward the numerical limitations of head or assistant coaches (Bylaw 11.7.4). It is permissible for an individual other than a coach who counts toward the numerical limitations of head or assistant coaches to send the correspondence; however, this individual may neither respond to correspondence from nor prepare correspondence to prospects. For example, a coach who counts toward the numerical limitations of head or assistant coaches composes a message to be sent to a large group of prospective student-athletes. Such a message may be provided to a staff member that is not a countable coach (e.g., administrative assistant, graduate assistant, director of operations, volunteer coach) and that individual may coordinate and engage in the act of sending the message to the intended recipients. In this manner, while the institutional staff member who is not included in the numerical coaching limitations actually sent the correspondence, the coach who counts toward the numerical limitations of head or assistant coaches prepared the content and, thus, satisfied the provisions of Bylaw 11.7.1.2.

[References: Division I Bylaws 11.01.5 (volunteer coach); 11.7.1.2 (recruiting coordination functions); 11.7.1.2.1 (exception); 11.7.4 (limitations on number-off-campus recruiting); 13.1.3.4.1 (permissible callers -- institutional staff members -- general rule); 13.1.3.4.1.1 (exceptions); 13.4.1.1 (printed recruiting materials) and 13.4.1.2 (electronic transmissions); a 5/10/06 staff interpretation, Item No. 1, and a 7/19/06 staff interpretation, Item No. 1]

I'm really bummed by this rule. Let's say that a vaulter comes up to me and talks to me at the Summit or at the Mt. Sac Relays. I have to tell them that I cannot talk to them about recruiting issues and that they need to call one of our other paid coaches to discuss this.

It makes recruiting really difficult.