ARTICLE
VI
GRANTS-IN-AID,
RECRUITMENT AND BOOSTER CLUBS
Section 1. Grants-in-aid
- Same as NJCAA with the following exceptions:
a. The total amount of an institutional
athletic grant-in-aid for a certified athlete shall not exceed the cost of
tuition and books at the conference school attended. If an athlete is awarded a scholarship by a
source not affiliated with a particular college, and if that source awards such
scholarships without restriction to college of attendance, and if the student
competes for the scholarship in the same manner as any other student, he/she
may accept such additional scholarship(s).
In addition, an athlete who qualifies and maintains a cumulative 3.5
G.P.A. may receive an academic scholarship administered by and through the
institution in attendance; such scholarship shall not exceed $500 per semester.
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b. Any facilities provided by or donated
to the college or owned by an organization for the purpose of providing rooms
and/or meals must be open to all students at the same prevailing charges. (
c. A college may pay for athletic injuries
and related complications. (
d. Pre-game and post-game meals may be provided
at home and away games. (
e. The KJCCC does not allow room and board
to be included in conference grant-in-aid.
However for Division I programs only, when the student/athlete is
required to be on campus due to institutional, conference, and/or competition,
when school is not in regular session, the institution shall have the option to
provide room and board. Those dates for the opening of practice and post-season play up to
and through such time as they have qualified for post-season play. This covers fifteen (15) days per
grant-in-aid during the school year. (
f. Trips for recruits ten (10) days prior
to the start of a semester are not allowed.
g. Purchasing of food,
drinks or any other items for
h. No personal contact may be made with a
prospective student athlete who resides in the State of
Dead Period for
Football Recruiting. The time
begins the Sunday prior to the national signing date at
i. Only those student athletes that are
competing in their second year, in any sport, in the Jayhawk Conference may be
assigned to a residence job.
Section 2. Letters-of-Intent
- The same as the NJCAA Rules Article VIII except for the following
additions.
Each KJCCC college will
be required to submit to the commissioners office no
later than the twenty fifth of each month a complete listing of signed letters
of intent, via e-mail. The commissioner
office will comply a composite of all letters and
forward them to the conference presidents, athletic directors and post them on
the conference web page by sport. (
a.
The
issuing of the letter-of-intent shall be signed and dated by the Director of
Athletics before submission for the athlete's signature. The athlete may receive the letter-of-intent
prior to the official signing date. The
letter-of-intent will be honored by the KJCCC only if the terms of the offer to
the prospective athlete are in writing and spelled out at the time the offer is
presented. Under no conditions will the
letter-of-intent be honored by the
KJCCC if it contains
contingencies within it such as "if you (the prospective athlete) make the
team or squad, you will be given a grant-in-aid.”
b. A letter-of-intent shall not prohibit a
student from participating in KJCCC athletic activities at the KJCCC college in
the district in which the student resides.
c. Signing
letters-of-intent by in-state students for football is limited to the NJCAA
signing date through March 1, and then after the fifteenth (15) of May. No
in-state student shall sign a letter-of-intent on campus or off campus in the
presence of a coach, college personnel, booster, or anyone affiliated with the
college. Football coaches can not recruit an in-state student off campus or pay
for a campus visit from March 2, until after May 15, but no letter-of-intent can
be signed off campus in the presence of a coach, college personnel, booster, or
others affiliated with the college. (
d.
Promising
or guaranteeing prospective student athletes dollar
amounts for institutional work or residence assistance jobs in exchange for
signing a letter-of-intent shall be prohibited. (
e.
Signing
letters-of-intent by in-state students for all sports, except football, shall
not be signed on or off campus in the presence of a coach, college personnel,
booster, or others affiliated with the college on the NJCAA signing date and
for a period of 30 calendar days from the NJCAA signing date. (8-04)
Section 3. Booster
Club: Same as NJCAA.(
Section 4. Enforcement:
A student athlete who
accepts from a member institution or its representative monies and/or gifts or
knowingly accepts grant-in-aid in excess of what is allowed by the KJCCC shall
forfeit one (1) academic year.(
a. The practice of sequestering
prospective student athletes in advance of the signing deadline for Letter-of-Intent, and paying for hotel rooms, meals or any
other benefits at this time will be considered a violation of Conference rules.
b. It is the responsibility of Conference
member coaches and athletic staff to be aware of Conference rules relating to
grants-in-aid and other limitations on payments, gifts or to gratuities given
to potential and current Conference student athletes and to inform the student
athletes and their high school coaches/counselors regarding such restrictions.
c. Whenever there is an allegation or
confirmed infraction of this section of the KJCCC By-Law by a Conference
college, no other Conference college(s) may recruit the athlete(s) involved
without written authorization from the KJCCC Commissioner.(