Do's

• You may use a current student-athlete's name, picture, and institutional affiliation ONLY in the camp counselor section of your brochure to identify the student-athlete as a staff member.
• You may use action photos of student-athletes in the camp/counselor section, provided the photo does not include other student-athletes with eligibility remaining that will not be working the camp.
• You may advertise summer camps/clinics in a professional sports game program. [SI 11/10/89]
• You may advertise in recruiting publications (other than a high school, two year college or nonscholastic game program) that provide information about the athletics participation or evaluation of prospects provided the publication:

Includes a "camp directory" format which groups at least two camp ads of the same size per page on sequential pages, and Restricts the size (not to exceed one-half page) and format (must be identical).

• You may advertise in nonrecruiting publications such as an ASU Athletics game program, a local magazine or newspaper. However, the use of a student-athlete photo is not allowed.
• You may distribute sports camp/clinic brochures to prospects (or their coaches) prior to September 1st of their junior year in high school.

Don'ts

• You may not use a student-athlete's name or picture in any way (i.e., newspaper, radio, television advertisements) other than to identify the student-athlete as a staff member in the camp/counselor section of the brochure to directly advertise or promote the camp.
• You may not include the names or pictures of student-athletes with eligibility remaining in the camp/clinic brochure who will not be employed at the camp/clinic.
• You may not pay a student-athlete for using his/her name or picture to advertise the camp/clinic.

Recruiting Visits

Official Visits

First Opportunity to Visit

• In all sports except for football and basketball, a prospect may not come on an official visit prior to the first day of classes of the prospect's junior year in high school.  For football, a PSA may make an official visit beginning April 1 of the prospect's junior year in high school through the Sunday before the last Wednesday in June.  For men's basketball, a prospect may be provided an official visit beginning August 1 at the beginning of their junior year of high school.  For women's basketball, they may be provided an official visit beginning Thursday following the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship game of the prospect's junior year in high school.

Before a Prospect Makes a Visit

• Coaches must obtain prior approval from the Compliance Office for their prospect to visit ASU by presenting a high school, junior college or four-year college transcript.  Prospects must be registered with the NCAA Eligibility Center and be in ASU's institutional request list (IRL) prior to making an official visit.

Length of the Official Visit

• An official visit shall not exceed 48 hours. The 48-hour time period begins once the prospect arrives on campus and ends once contact with the prospect ceases. At the completion of the 48-hour visit, the prospect must leave campus immediately, otherwise ASU cannot pay any expenses for the prospect to return home.
• For a prospect flying into Memphis, the 48-hour time period does not begin until the prospect arrives on campus.  For prospects flying into Little Rock, their 48-hour time period begins as soon as the coach/staff member makes contact with the prospect at the airport.
• A coach may pick up a prospect and his or her family at the prospect's home and transport him or her to campus for the official visit, but the 48 hour period begins as soon as they get into the car.

Transportation

• An institution may pay for a prospect's actual round-trip transportation costs for their visit to campus from any location provided the prospect returns to the original point of departure at the conclusion of the visit. For the sports of men's and women's basketball, the institution may also cover the actual round-trip transportation costs for the prospect's parents.  For the sport of football, the institution may pay the actual round-cost transportation costs for up to two family members to accompany  If the prospect wishes to travel to a location other than the original point of departure, ASU may pay for travel to the prospect's home, educational institution or competition site as long as the cost of doing so is less than the cost or sending them back to the original point of departure.
• A prospect's friends or relatives may receive cost-free transportation to visit the campus only when traveling by automobile with either the prospect or a member of the ASU coaching staff.
• Airfare for commercial transportation may not exceed coach class. In addition, a coach may not accompany the prospect to or from an official visit when air travel is used except to provide transportation between campus and the major airport nearest ASU.
• Once the prospect has arrived on campus, only institutional automobiles (dealer cars are considered institutional) and golf carts may be utilized to transport the prospect and his / her family. Rental vehicles from corporate vendors are permissible, as long as they are equipped with only standard equipment. All transportation provided during the visit must be limited to a 30 mile radius from campus.

Lodging

• Lodging may be provided to a prospect, the prospect's parents [legal guardian(s)] and spouse during the 48 hours of the visit and must be within a 30-mile radius of the institution's campus. Additional persons (e.g., prospect's brother, sister, and friend) may stay in the same room as the parents or prospect.
• The institution shall not pay for any charges for additional occupants.
• Accommodations must be in a standard hotel room that does not include upgraded features such as a suite or a whirlpool that are not available in all rooms at the hotel.
• Lodging for a high school, college preparatory school or two-year college coach or any other individual responsible for teaching or directing an activity in which a prospect is involved shall not be paid for by the institution.

Meals

• The prospect and his or her parents may be provided with three meals per day and an additional snack during the 48 hours of the visit. The prospect and their family must pay the cost of meals for additional persons (e.g., brother sister, friend). For the sport of football, an institution may provide meals for up to four family members accompanying the prospect. A family member is an individual with any of the following relationships to the prospect: spouse, parent, legal guardian, child, sibling, grandparent, domestic partner or any individual whose close association with the prospect is the practical equivalent of a family relationship. Separate checks are best for this. During the visit, meals must take place within a 30 mile radius of campus.
• One of the permissible meals may occur at the home of an institutional staff member (i.e. coach, faculty, President). NCAA rules permit ASU, at its discretion, to reimburse the staff member for the cost of the meal (in accordance with ASU policies and procedures.)

Entertainment and Personalized Recruiting

• An institution may provide entertainment only for a prospect and the prospect's four family members (no coaches).
• All entertainment must occur within a 30-mile radius of the institution's main campus.
• All entertainment provided to a prospect, a prospect's parents / legal guardian and a prospect's four family members must be paid through student-host money unless a specific exception exists (i.e., meals and complimentary admissions) in the NCAA rules. This includes entertainment provided by an athletics department staff member when that staff member is serving as the prospect's host.
• Personalized recruiting and game day simulations are not permissible. Examples of impermissible practices include the use of a uniform or locker with the prospect's name on it, announcing a prospect's name over the PA system in an empty facility and showing video footage of a prospect on a facility's video board (even if the facility is closed).
• It is not permissible to add special decorations or adornments to an area visited by a prospect.
• Pre-game team "walks" through public areas and traveling with a team receiving a police escort are not permissible activities for prospects to participate in.
• Curfew - All prospects must be "in for the night" by 1:00 a.m.

Complimentary Admissions

• Prospects on official visits may receive six complimentary admissions and the student host may receive one. Two additional complimentary tickets are permitted to accommodate divorced or separated parents who are on the visit. Such admission may provide seating only in the general seating area of the facility utilized for conducting the event. 
• Tickets for additional people accompanying the prospect may be reserved adjacent to the complimentary seats. These tickets must be purchased at face value.

Student Hosts

• A student host may receive a maximum of $40 per day to cover all actual cost of entertaining a prospect and $15 per day for additional prospects. This money may not be used to purchase souvenirs (e.g., T-shirts). You may provide one student host per prospect with a complimentary meal in a restaurant, provided the host accompanies the prospect during the meal.
• Only a student-athlete may serve as a host for a prospect. It is not permissible to utilize ancillary groups of students or non-students whose only roll in the recruiting process is to escort or entertain prospects.
• You may not provide the host or prospect with the use of an automobile, and the host may not take the prospect outside a 30-mile radius of campus.
• The student-athlete host may not be a non-qualifier in his or her first year of residence.

High School, AAU, or Preparatory Coaches

• High school, AAU or preparatory coaches may not be reimbursed for expenses incurred in transporting a prospect to campus for an official visit.
• Entertainment of high school coaches is limited to the provision of two complimentary admissions to home athletics events taking place on the institution's campus.

Parking

• An institution may arrange special on-campus parking for prospects during an official visit.

Unofficial Visits

Number Permitted

• A prospect may visit ASU at his or her own expense an unlimited number of times. For sports other than football and basketball, such visits may take place beginning September 1 of the prospect's junior year of high school.  For football, they may occur at any age during a prospect's high school enrollment.  For men's basketball, a prospect may visit campus beginning August 1 of their sophomore year of high school.

Meals

• Prospects on an unofficial visit may pay the actual cost of meals (or regular cost of training-table meals) and eat with other prospects who are on their official visits or with enrolled student-athletes.
• Only the coaches certified to recruit off-campus may eat with prospects off-campus during an unofficial visit. The meal must count as an off-campus contact, involve only contactable prospects, and occur during contact period. If the previous conditions are not met, the meal must take place on-campus at a facility owned an operated by the university, (i.e., dorm or union) or at restaurant within one mile of campus. Other institutional staff members may only eat with prospects dining at on-campus facilities.

Entertainment and Complimentary Admission

• During an unofficial visit, ASU may not pay any expense or provide any entertainment except a maximum of three complimentary admissions (issued only through a pass list) to a home athletics event in which an ASU team practices or competes. These complimentary admissions are issued on an individual-game basis. Additional tickets may not be reserved for purchase by the prospect and must be purchased only in the same manner as any other member of the general public. In addition, only seating in the general seating area may be provided. ASU may not provide special seating for the prospect or the prospect's parents [or legal guardian(s)] or spouse in the facility's press box, special seating boxes) or bench area.
• A maximum of three complimentary admissions may be provided to a prospect for a home contests at a site other than its' regular competition facility. Tournament and postseason contests are excluded from this provision. High school coaches may not receive complimentary admissions at such events.
• Special parking may not be arranged for prospects attending ASU athletics events.
• It is permissible for an athletics department staff member to arrange for prospective student-athletes on unofficial visits to meet and socialize with enrolled student-athletes on campus only.
• It is permissible to provide a prospect with transportation to view campus facilities during an unofficial visit.

Housing

• A prospect on an unofficial visit may stay in an enrolled student-athlete's dormitory room only if the prospect pays the regular institutional rate.
• It is not permissible for prospects to stay with an enrolled student-athlete off-campus during an unofficial visit. Enrolled student-athletes are not permissible recruiters.

Athletic Events on Campus

• An unofficial visit by a football or basketball prospect participating in a campus athletic event outside of a contact period may only take place on the day before or the day after the event. No other recruiting contact may take place inasmuch as contact is not permitted outside of a contact period, even on campus.
• In sports other than football and basketball, coaches may utilize a contact to speak with a contactable prospect, except during a dead period, any time after the event concludes and the prospect is released. Also, an unofficial visit is permitted the day prior to the event, or immediately after the event if the prospect has first departed campus and returned.

Arranging Academic Interviews

• An ASU athletics staff member may arrange academic interviews for the prospect.