CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, September 17, 1984
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No free sodas for recruits
NCAA rules affect boosters
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
College athletic boosters who take a prospective recruit out for lunch on a soda may think they are helping the athletics. But the NCAA is not relating NCAA rules on recruiting.
Anyone can become a booster by trying to convince student athletes to attend a certain college, Lonny Rose, of the sports doctor, told 17 TU supporters Saturday.
Rose is a professor of law, who has served as the athletic director for the University of Kansas for a year. He led a seminar Saturday morning on "Alumni, Recruiting and the Student Athlete."
THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association regulates all contact between boosters and student athletes. Rose said. A booster could be an alumna, a faculty member, a coach, or someone unconnected to the school.
A NCAA rule could be violated, Rose said, if a booster bought a beverage or a meal for a prospective student athlete.
Several members of the audience were surprised that the NCAA recruiting rules were so strict.
Oliver Samuel, Emporia, said, "I thought as alumni we had more latitude than we do."
Samuel said that he and his wife had attended KU football games and had supported the Williams Fund, which accepts donations to support intercollegiate athletics, for more than 30 years.
ROSE SAID THAT boosters cannot, according to NCAA rules, encourage a high school student to attend a particular college before the graduation.
And if a booster does talk to a senior, the student becomes a prospective student athlete, and both the student and booster must follow NCAA rules.
Those rules limit a university to six face-to-face conversations with each prospective student athlete during his senior year, Rose said.
A student becomes a prospective student athlete when a member of the athletic staff or a booster calls a student, visits with a student's family, provides transportation to the campus, or provides entertainment to a student or his family. Rose said.
Entertainment does not include complementary tickets to three sporting events. Rose said, which are within NCAA limits.
IF A BOOSTER TALKS to the prospective student athlete, the conversation counts as one of the six, which means that the coach will have one less opportunity to convince the student to attend that college.
This means a booster's actions can identify a high school student as a prospective student athlete without university's awareness, Rose said.
No conversations of any kind between a booster and the prospective student athlete may be held during a high school student's freshman, sophomore or junior accept during the summer. Rose said.
But according to NCAA rules, the university is responsible if the booster violates any rules, said Rose
The NCAA seldom investigates minor violations by boosters, Rose said, but a series of such offenses has been reported. NCAA violations and draw an investigation.
BOOSTERS ARE OBLIGED to follow the same rules that athletic department officials must follow, Rose said.
all off-campus recruiting must be done by athletic department staff, boosters should not be afraid to mention their alma matrs to high school students, Rose said.
Although under a new NCAA rule
Rose said that the rule allows family and friends to visit with high school student athletes, as long as the friend or family member is not recruiting, and the athletic department has not encouraged the conversation.
The new rule was intended to stop the abuse of recruiting regulations by boosters. Rose said.
The rule only stops the off-campus recruiting by boosters, it does not stop the on-campus recruiting. Rose was held on-campus associations should be held on-campus as off campus.
RECruitment VIOLATIONS BY boosters at some schools have included offering jobs or special treatment for the athlete by the
"So this rule does not stop the evil the NCAA wanted to stop," said Rose. "It just stops the means."
Because NCAA rules limit conversations between coaches and athletes so much, Rose said the KU athletic department offers coached coaches to offer summer camps.
"Camps have become the biggest recruiting tool for schools." Rose said.
Coaches, athletic department staff and boosters can have unlimited numbers of conversations with high school students who are not classified as seniors during the summer. Rose said.
Camps also give the student the chance to examine the campus, Rose said. He said that he thought that campus visits helped recruit student athletes because they are allowed to see the facilities and the beauty of the University.
Man dies in police standoff
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police stormed into a rented house where a Colorado drug dealer and escaped convict had held authorities at bay for almost 17 hours yesterday and found the suspect dead.
A police tactical unit entered the house through the basement about 8:30 p.m. and discovered the body of James Quaintana, known as the 'godfather of the Denver heroin in the hallway near the bedroom.
The suspect had been dead about three to four hours, but the cause of his death was not immediately determined, said police spokesman David Burns.
Police said they confiscated numerous weapons in the house, but declined to identify them.
Fifty to 60 armed police officers had surrounded the house in the quiet residential neighborhood north of the Missouri River since about 4 am yesterday, when he was arrested on the suspect. Burns said.
Quintana, who was considered armed and dangerous, had told police by telephone that they knew him and in get him," authorities said
Three people, two men and one woman, left the house and were taken into custody by federal authorities. Quintana called Sgt. Peter Edulph, a police negotiator, and said he was concerned about their safety.
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