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Message: [QUOTE="llandz, post: 1177233, member: 1679"] So I just got back from my alumni club presidents meetings a couple of weeks ago. Every year we have someone from athletic compliance come speak to us. You have no idea the breadth of NCAA rules there are. The lady who is in charge of compliance (and she is also new in the past 2 years, so that person may also have been changed out) is extremely sharp. She carries multiple copies of the NCAA rule book around with her. She said one is always in her glove compartment, one is always on her in person. She gets calls 24/7, and she prefers to get those calls to err on the safe side. It is a full time, no sleep job. What is even more alarming is that we on this board violate NCAA rules every day, and most of you have no clue that you are doing it. By talking about current players in any form of public social media, we are probably violating a rule. I will all but guarantee that communicating with a player's father about said player is also probably a violation. I, as an alumni club president may not tweet, or comment on facebook about a current player unless I personally know that player, and have permission to do so. I can not use any photos from a game on my club web site or facebook page unless it is an official photo taken by the university. These are some of the NCAA violations that we learned about this year. I am considered part of the university. She also said that anybody that donates even $1 to the athletic department is covered by NCAA rules. Another rule example that we discussed is selling of our tickets. If an alumni club gets a block of tickets, all unused tickets must go back to the box office. We may not sell them on stub hub, craig's list or anyplace. We can only sell them to someone we know is not a potential future athlete, because that would be another violation. So who can possibly know all of these rules? No one. The NCAA can walk into any school, and they will find violations. They are an out of control organization. The fact that every school needs someone on call 24/7 is a testament to this, and also the fact that the arms of the NCAA is so far reaching as to include each and every one of us is another. [/QUOTE]

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