4.2 IUPUI Recruiting Policy

All recruiting activities shall be done in accordance with NCAA and IUPUI regulations and policies. Each staff member involved in the recruitment of prospective student-athletes shall possess a sound working knowledge of all applicable policies and regulations. The Chancellor has reviewed and approved these policies.

• Institutions cannot use private or chartered airplanes when transporting prospects; instead, they must use commercial air travel at coach-class fares.
• Campuses must use standard vehicles to transport prospective student-athletes and those accompanying them on official visits.
• Prospects and their parents or legal guardians must be housed in standard lodging and offered standard meals similar to those offered on campus.
• Institutions must provide an educational component of the visit. A meeting with a school’s advisor is encouraged. A meeting with the Compliance/Academic Support Services office is also encouraged.
• All coaching staff members and Athletics Department staff members involved with the prospects visiting campus will be required to attend a Rules Education session regarding Recruiting.
• Student hosts must be current student-athletes or students who conduct visits or tours as part of the admissions process. Gender-specific groups will be allowed if they are organized consistent with an institution’s overall campus visit program.
• Institutions cannot use personalized recruiting aides (such as jerseys or scoreboard presentations) or game-day simulations during campus visits. Prospects can visit the locker room before or after a game or stand on the sidelines during pre-game activities under this measure.

In addition, categories of prohibited recruiting activities, practices, and conduct by any institutional employee, student-athlete, student, and representative of the institution’s athletics interests, as well as prospective student-athletes shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Excessive meals and transportation
• Use of escorts or exotic dancers
• No use of alcohol
• Gentleman and adult entertainment facilities visits
• No use of drugs or sex as a recruiting device
• No activity that violates criminal law
• No gambling/gaming activities
• Activities or events at any location that may cause a perception of impropriety

Section 4.16 Recruiting Forms, the “IUPUI Student Host Instructions/Receipt” form provides a detailed guide for the Student-Athlete(s) acting as host for a prospect’s official visit. Furthermore, the “Official Visit Activity” form requires the Head Coach to document all activity that transpires during a prospect’s official visit.

Any person aware of impermissible recruiting activity identified in this guide or as regulated by the NCAA should contact the Compliance Coordinator immediately. Failure to report impermissible activity may result in additional sanctions being placed by the NCAA toward the institution. Individuals involved with impermissible recruiting activity will be sanctioned appropriately by the institution. Sanctions may include, but are not limited to: reprimand, admonishment, suspension, expulsion, termination.

There is a limit on the number of coaches in each sport who are permitted to contact or evaluate prospects off campus at any one time. If the limit of coaches who are permitted to contact or evaluate prospects off campus at any one time is reached, another coach in that same sport may not leave campus to engage in off campus contacts or evaluations until one of the other coaches who is off campus actually returns to campus.

NCAA regulations require that all coaches who recruit off campus must be certified. Certification is obtained by taking the NCAA Coaches Certification Examination and obtaining a score of 80 percent or better. Certification must be done on an annual basis and expires on July 31 each year.

In men's and women's basketball, only the head coach and/or assistant coaches may recruit, i.e., contact or evaluate, prospects off campus. It is permissible for the restricted coach to recruit off campus in sports other than men's and women's basketball.

Representatives of IUPUI athletics interests, i.e., "reps", are prohibited from making any contacts, telephone contacts or written correspondence with prospects.

Actions that cause a prospective student-athlete to become a recruited prospective student-athlete at that institution are:

1. Providing the prospect with an official visit,
2. An arranged in person, off campus encounter with the prospect, prospect's parent (s) or legal guardians, or
3. Initiating or arranging a telephone contact with the prospect, family member or guardian on more than one occasion for the purpose or recruitment.

NCAA regulations specifically limit the recruiting activities listed below. Therefore, each coach is required to itemize each of these activities insofar as applicable by written record for each prospective student-athlete who is being recruited by IUPUI:

1. Evaluations - include date, time, location, event/opponent, type of evaluation, e.g., practice, transcript, and name of coach who made the evaluation. Note that any discussion of academic performance with teachers, guidance counselors or principals office staff are also considered to be evaluations.
2. Contacts - include date, time, location and person(s) present.
3. Official Visit - include date and time of arrival, time of departure, full itinerary with names of all persons contacted, and full declaration of all expenses.
4. Unofficial Visits - include date and person(s) visiting.
5. Telephone - include date, time and whether it was a countable call.

Each head coach will be responsible for insuring the completion of forms approved by the IUPUI Department of Athletics for this purpose. Each head coach is responsible for ensuring that all required recruiting activities are accurately documented and kept on file for five (5) years.

NCAA regulations require that a copy of IUPUI's Graduation Rates Disclosure Form as published by the NCAA be provided to all prospects and their parents. This form must be provided upon request or no later than one-day before the prospect signs a National Letter of Intent or a tender offer.

While the NCAA no longer requires that institution send the Graduation Rates Disclosure Form to the coach and guidance counselor of the prospect, in order to comply with the provision of the Student Right to Know act, a copy of the NCAA Graduation Rates Disclosure Form for IUPUI will be sent to the coach and guidance counseling staff for each recruited student-athlete.

Academic interviews may be arranged by members of the Department of Athletics staff for a prospect while on an unofficial visit.

Telephone calls to prospects may NOT be made prior to July 1 (except basketball) following completion of the prospect's junior year. A coach may accept a collect call from a prospect only after July' following the prospect's junior year. A prospect may make a telephone call at his/her own expense to a coach at any time.

Only one telephone call per week, i.e., Sunday through Saturday, is permitted to a prospect with the following exceptions:

Off-campus recruiting contact may not be made at any time with a prospect until July 1 following completion of the prospect's junior year.

Exception:
Men's Basketball may make one Contact with a prospect during the prospect's junior year in high school during the time period beginning with the first Wednesday following the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship game through the month of April. This contact must be made at the prospect's high school.

There is a limit of three (3) in-person, off-campus contacts per prospect. This limitation includes contacts with parents/guardians. All contacts occurring on the same day count as one contact. There is no limit on the number of contacts that may be made with a prospect after he/she has signed a National Letter of Intent or other written commitment to attend IUPUI. However, no contact may be made during a "dead period".

Any staff member desiring to contact a prospect at the prospect's high school, preparatory school, or two-year college first shall obtain permission for such contact from that institution's executive officer.

In sports other than men's and women's basketball, 7 recruiting opportunities (contacts and evaluations combined) are permissible during the academic year. In basketball, 5 recruiting opportunities (contacts and evaluations combined) are permissible during the prospect's academic year. No more than three of these opportunities may be contacts. All evaluations made on the same day count as one evaluation.

4.14 Recruiting Materials

In sports other than men’s basketball, permissible recruiting materials may be provided to prospects on or after September 1 of the prospect’s junior year in high school. Member institutions are permitted to provide only the printed materials listed below to prospects, coaches of prospects, or any other individual responsible for teaching or directing any activity in which a prospect is involved.

1. Correspondence (all attachments must be on white paper using only black ink)
2. Business Cards
3. Electronic Transmissions
4. Game Programs (only provided during an Official or Unofficial Visit)
5. Media Guide OR Recruiting Brochure
6. Schedule Cards
7. Questionnaires
8. Camp brochures
9. Institutionally prepared (non-athletics) publications available to all students
10. Recruiting or media guide
11. NCAA educational materials
12. Business cards

BEGINNING STUDENTS

Minimum Admission Requirements are:

*Graduation from high school or completion of the GED;

*Rank in the upper-half of high school class or GED diploma;

*An SAT I or ACT score at or above the Indiana average. Applications with scores below this average will be considered for admission based upon the degree of difficulty of their high school courses and grades earned. The Schools of Business, Nursing, Public and Environmental Affairs and Engineering and Technology have specific score requirements listed in the IUPUI viewbook or bulletin.

*Current high school students: submit the ACT or SAT I results well in advance of the application priority date. If graduated in the past three years, submit the ACT or SAT I scores or make arrangements for IUPUI placement tests (see information below).

*Completion of 28 semesters of college preparatory classes, including these minimum requirements: