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Compliance
In order to keep you, our Notre Dame student-athletes, up-to-date and informed regarding NCAA and University regulations that pertain to you, and to help you avoid any activities that may jeopardize your eligibility to participate and compete, the following rules material has been put together for your benefit and information.
Summer Employment
- All earnings from summer employment must be at a rate of pay that is comparable with the going rate, in that locale, for the type of work performed.
- You should be paid by check (not cash) for the hours that you actually worked. (Exceptions: Work such as babysitting, lawn work, etc.)
- You cannot have transportation to and from work provided by your employer unless transportation is provided to all employees.
- Your employer cannot provide you with any benefit or privilege that is not provided to all employees (e.g., meals, cars, entertainment at home, vacation trips, water skiing, etc.). One exception: A representative of Notre Dame's athletics interests (which would include your summer employer) is permitted to provide a student-athlete with an occasional home meal. The meal must be at the representative's home and may not be in a restaurant and must be on an infrequent basis (i.e., once every few months). In addition, the representative is permitted to provide you with transportation for the sole purpose of attending this occasional home meal.
- You cannot be paid for teaching or coaching sport skills in your sport on a fee-for-lesson basis. You can be employed by a community agency or club to teach sport skills as long as you have other duties and responsibilities.
Camp/Clinic Employment
- Currently enrolled student-athletes may not participate as campers in any Notre Dame camps or clinics.
- In sports other than football, student-athletes may be employed as counselors in camps and clinics and there is no limit on the number of student-athletes in a sport who may be employed in an institutional or non-institutional (privately owned) camp or clinic provided:
- The student-athlete(s) shall not participate in organized practice activities other than during the institution's playing season in that sport, and
- Prior written approval of the student-athlete's employment arrangement is received from the Director of Athletics.
- In the sport of football, a member of Notre Dame's football squad may be employed in a football camp other than the Notre Dame camp, provided not more than one football student-athlete from Notre Dame is employed.
- Student-athletes employed at sports camps must perform duties that are supervisory in nature. Coaching and officiating cannot account for more than 50% of a student-athlete's work time.
- Student-athletes' compensation must be comparable to the going rate for all the camp's counselors of similar ability and experience.
- A student-athlete who only lectures or demonstrates at a camp/clinic may not receive compensation for his or her appearance at the camp/clinic.
- Transportation to and/or from a camp/clinic may not be provided unless it is provided to all employees.
Academic Year Employment
The NCAA's Board of Directors adopted legislation that allows student-athletes to receive employment earnings during the academic year. However, it is imperative that you keep in mind the specific guidelines that must be followed in the event that you decide to obtain on- or off-campus employment during the 2003-04 academic year.
- All earnings from academic year employment must be at a rate of pay that is commensurate with the going rate for the type of work performed.
- You must be academically eligible in order to seek term-time employment.
- You may work off-campus or on-campus, but not within the athletics department or in a facility owned or operated by the athletics department (i.e. Joyce Center, Rolfs Aquatic Center, Loftus Sports Center, Rockne Memorial Building, Warren Golf Course).
- You and your employer must complete the Student-Athlete Term-Time Employment Forms and file these documents with the Compliance Office before you begin your employment.
Summer Competition
- All Sports: You must have written approval from the Notre Dame Athletic Department to participate in any official state games (e.g., Empire State Games, Bay State Games, etc.) or to participate in any official tryouts and/or any competitions involving National Teams, the Pan American Games, or the Olympic Games.
- Current student-athletes and recruited prospective student-athletes who are in the Notre Dame area during the summer cannot participate jointly in recreational activities at the direction of, organized by, or observed by a Notre Dame coaching staff member.
- No more than the following number of Notre Dame student-athletes with eligibility remaining may practice or compete out-of-season on the same outside amateur team during the summer:
- Baseball - 4
- Basketball - 1
- Football - 1
- Lacrosse - 5
- Soccer - 6
- Softball - 4
All other teams - No Limit [No other member of the Notre Dame Athletic Department (e.g., coach, official, player, etc.) can be involved with the team in any way.]
- Basketball League Play: Student-athletes may compete on only one team in one approved summer league between June 15 and August 31.
- You may play only in a league approved by the NCAA. Be sure to ask your coach about this before you participate in a summer league.
- You must have written permission from Notre Dame's Director of Athletics.
- You cannot play in an "All-Star" game of any type.
- No more than one player with eligibility remaining from any single 2- or 4- year college can play on the same league team.
- The league must be within 100 miles of your official residence or the University of Notre Dame campus.
Summer Competition Awards and Prizes
- In order to maintain your amateur status and remain eligible for intercollegiate competition, you cannot receive any type of pay for play, either directly or indirectly.
- "Pay" includes any type of salary or compensation (including cash prizes). You may receive actual and necessary travel, room and board expenses, and apparel and equipment for practice and competition. These expenses may be received only from someone upon whom you are naturally or legally dependent, a non-University of Notre Dame team, or from an amateur organization or local sports club. Such expenses cannot be based upon the outcome of the competition.
- In the summer, the awards or prizes you may receive must conform to the regulations of the amateur governing body in your sport. At no time, under any circumstances, are you to receive cash. Any questions about permissible prizes should be directed to your coach in advance of the competition, so as not to jeopardize your eligibility.
- All awards or cash prizes that you are not allowed to receive under NCAA regulations cannot be given in your name to another individual or agency.
Benefits from Boosters/Representatives of Notre Dame's Athletics Interests
As a student-athlete, you need to be aware that there are limitations on the interactions which you may have with individuals the NCAA identifies as a representative of the University of Notre Dame's athletics interests (i.e., an "athletics booster"). NCAA regulations define a booster as:
"Any individual who is a member of the institution's athletics booster club, has made donations to the booster club or the athletics department, is involved in any manner in recruiting or in providing benefits (e.g., summer jobs, occasional meals) to enrolled student-athletes, or is otherwise involved in promoting the institution's athletics program(s)."
The NCAA stipulates that once an individual has been identified as a "representative" of the University of Notre Dame athletics program, he or she retains this status forever. This is true even if the individual no longer contributes to the athletics program. During your enrollment at Notre Dame, you may befriend individuals or families in the community who might wish to provide you with a more "home-like" atmosphere. Please be aware that if you become "friends" with an athletics booster and/or employee of Notre Dame, this does not change their status as far as NCAA regulations are concerned.
What is an extra benefit?
An extra benefit is any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative of the institution's athletics interests to provide a student-athlete or a student-athlete's relatives or friends a benefit of which is not generally available to the institution's general student population or their relatives or friends or to a particular segment of the student population (e.g., foreign students, minority students) determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability.
You May Not
- accept anything from an employee of Notre Dame or a representative of our athletics interests (e.g., use of a car, clothing, gifts, money, tickets for any kind of entertainment, payment of long distance telephone calls, free summer storage space). Essentially, you must not accept benefits from individuals whom you are not naturally or legally dependent.
- accept room and/or board from any employee or booster of Notre Dame athletics.
- You cannot accept free or reduced cost merchandise (e.g., athletic shoes, music cassettes/cd's, clothing) or services from a merchant unless that free or reduced cost item is also available to the general public.
- accept a free or reduced cost meal from a restaurant. In addition, you may not eat at a restaurant as the guest of an athletics booster or an employee of Notre Dame.
- use an athletics department copy machine, fax machine, express mail service or make long distance phone calls using athletic department equipment.
- have members of the athletics department staff are not permitted to type reports, papers, letters, etc. for any student-athlete.
- receive a special discount, payment arrangement or credit on a purchase (e.g., airline ticket, clothing, athletic gear) or service (e.g., laundry, dry cleaning) from an employee of Notre Dame or an athletic booster.
- have a Notre Dame employee or a booster provide you with a loan of money, a guarantee of bond, or sign or co-sign a note to arrange a loan.
- have a Notre Dame employee or a booster provide you with the use of an automobile for any reason.
You May
- On infrequent, special occasions (e.g., student-athlete's birthday, Thanksgiving, etc.) you may accept an invitation to the home of an employee of Notre Dame or an athletics representative for a meal. The employee or booster may provide transportation for you to attend this occasional meal at their home (provided the employee's or athletics representative's home is within 30 miles of campus or your home).
The acceptance by you, your parent(s)/guardian(s), or friends of any extra benefit is a violation of NCAA regulations and places your eligibility for intercollegiate competition in immediate jeopardy. Please contact the Compliance Office or your coaches if you are offered any benefit from an individual whom you are not naturally or legally dependent.
Amateurism/Agents
NCAA rules provide that prior to the completion of your eligibility (which usually occurs after the last game of your senior year including post-season tournament, bowl, or all-star games) you:
May Not
- agree, either orally or in writing, to be represented by an agent for the purpose of marketing your athletic ability or reputation in a sport. You will lose your eligibility even if you:
- do not date the agreement
- date the agreement as of a date after you have completed your eligibility in that sport, or
- agree that the agent will only represent you in future negotiations after you have completed your eligibility in that sport.
- accept (or allow family members or friends to accept) transportation or any other benefits from anyone who wishes to represent you to market your athletic ability.
- negotiate or enter into any kind of agreement, either orally or written, to compete in professional athletics (even if not legally enforceable) and remain eligible in that sport.
- receive any preferential treatment, benefits or services, including loans you do not have to begin to pay back immediately, because of your athletic reputation or money you may make as a pro athlete.
- receive any type of pay for play (either directly or indirectly) and you may not be involved in any commercial endorsements for a product, service, or establishment.
Gambling
- You may not knowingly provide information to individuals involved in organized gambling activities concerning intercollegiate athletics competition.
- You may not solicit a bet on any intercollegiate team representing any institution or any professional team (i.e., NCAA Basketball pool, NFL Super Bowl pool).
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