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Message: [QUOTE="javadoc, post: 659174, member: 338"] Here is what I see: [I]13.01.4 Recruiting by Representatives of Athletics Interests. Representatives of an institution’s[/I] [I]athletics interests (as defined in Bylaw 13.02.14) are prohibited from making in-person, on- or off-campus recruiting[/I] [I]contacts, or written or telephonic communications with a prospective student-athlete or the prospective[/I] [I]student-athlete’s relatives or legal guardians. Specific examples of exceptions to the application of this regulation[/I] [I]are set forth in Bylaw 13.1.2.2 (see Bylaw 13.1.3.5.1.1).[/I] [I]13.02.14 Representative of Athletics Interests. A “representative of the institution’s athletics interests”[/I] [I]is an individual, independent agency, corporate entity (e.g., apparel or equipment manufacturer) or other organization[/I] [I]who is known (or who should have been known) by a member of the institution’s executive or athletics[/I] [I]administration to: (Revised: 2/16/00)[/I] [I](a) Have participated in or to be a member of an agency or organization promoting the institution’s intercollegiate[/I] [I]athletics program;[/I] [I](b) Have made financial contributions to the athletics department or to an athletics booster organization of that[/I] [I]institution;[/I] [I](c) Be assisting or to have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospective[/I] [I]student-athletes;[/I] [I](d) Be assisting or to have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families; or[/I] [I](e) Have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution’s athletics program.[/I] [I]13.1.2 Permissible Recruiters.[/I] [I]13.1.2.1 General Rule. All in-person, on- and off-campus recruiting contacts with a prospective student-athlete[/I] [I]or the prospective student-athlete’s relatives or legal guardians shall be made only by authorized institutional[/I] [I]staff members. Such contact, as well as correspondence and telephone calls, by representatives of an institution’s[/I] [I]athletics interests is prohibited except as otherwise permitted in this section. [B]Violations of this bylaw involving[/B][/I] [I][B]individuals other than a representative of an institution’s athletics interests shall be considered institutional violations[/B][/I] [I][B]per Constitution 2.8.1[/B]; however, such violations shall not affect the prospective student-athlete’s eligibility.[/I] [I](Revised: 8/5/04)[/I] I am certainly a 13.02.14 Representative, because I meet the conditions of (b). A guy who walks up and buys a ticket in person for a game would not. He might have made a contribution, but he is not "known (or who should have been known)". Certainly not, if they don't take his name and info at the time of ticket purchase. Even then it would be a stretch. Consider a person who buys season tickets. Say a Notre Dame fan buys a season ticket so that he can see ND play in the Dome. The U has all his info, so he is known. If he then contacts a recruit and "sells" SU to get us in trouble, how can that be a violation? So buying tickets is not necessarily a subsection (b) qualifying criterion. So 13.01.4 and 13.02.14 seem to bar me decisively from initiating contact with recruits on Twitter or Facebook. I don't think it bars regular SU students in general, nor casual fans who have not otherwise met the criteria of 13.02.14. But what about 13.1.2.1? The part I put in bold confuses me. Who can violate the bylaws? Are they talking about "average joe student" now making an in-person recruiting visit? Parsing this, it seems to say: (i) STAFF ONLY can do (X) (ii) Representatives can't do (X) (redundant, implied by (i)) and they also can't do (Y) (iii) Violations by other than Representatives are bad Item (i) grants authority to staff. Nowhere else does the bylaw proscribe something to staff, unless by "this bylaw" they mean all of 13.1.2. So staff can't be a violator for (iii)'s purposes. That has to mean "average joe." But what is "average joe" forbidden to do? All I can come up with is - what the staff was exclusively authorized to do in (i). But that seems ridiculous. Violations by Representatives would not be insitutional, but violations by "average joe" would be? Not the best-worded bylaw. I'm still not sure whether this bylaw is intended to forbid "average joe" from doing what is also forbidden to Representatives. [/QUOTE]

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