Below is a list of Do's and Don'ts as a Booster: (This list is not exhaustive.)
The Do's:
- May observe the athletic event, provided there is not contact with the prospect's parents or relatives.
- Notify the coaching staff of outstanding prospects in the area
- Continue to have normal contact with any neighbor, relative, or family that might be prospect as long as you do not engage in the recruitment process
- Refer any and all recruiting questions to the CSUSM Compliance Office.
The Don'ts:
- Write or call a prospect or his/her parents or legal guardians
- Contact a coach, high school principal, and/or counselor, to evaluate a prospect
- Visit a prospect's school to pick up a transcript or video to evaluate his/her academic or athletic ability or to provide to an athletics department staff member
- Provide extra benefits to prospects, enrolled college student-athletes, their relatives, or friends (e.g. movie tickets, event tickets, or dinner)
- Meet with a prospect or his/her immediate family members off campus; or have any recruiting contact unless on the University campus at the direction of the athletics staff
- Pay for prospect's registration fees for athletics camps at any time
- Employ at student-athlete at a higher rate than the local rate for work
Extra Benefits
The NCAA defines an extra benefit as any special arrangement by an institutional employee or representative of the institution's athletics interests to provide a student-athlete or the student athlete's relative or friend a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. Receipt of a benefit by student-athletes or their relatives or friends is not a violation of NCAA legislation, if it's a demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institution's student or their relatives or friends or to particular segment of the student body determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability.
