USF Athletics

Evaluation Defined
An evaluation is any off-campus activity designed to assess the academic qualifications or athletics ability of a prospective student-athlete, including any visit to a prospective student-athlete’s educational institution (during which no contact occurs) or the observation of a prospective student-athlete participating in any practice or competition at any site.

• Exception - Football:  Any evaluation that occurs during a contact period by a coaching staff member is a countable contact rather than a countable evaluation.
• Evaluation Days - Football and Women’s Volleyball:  An evaluation day is defined as one coach engaged in the evaluation of any prospective student-athlete on one day (12:01 a.m. to midnight).
  • Two coaches making evaluations on the same day shall use two evaluation days.

Evaluation Periods
Evaluations - Sports Other Than Football and Basketball

• During the academic year, USF is limited to seven recruiting opportunities (contacts and evaluations combined) per prospective student-athlete and not more than three of the seven opportunities may be contacts.
• Evaluation Days—Women’s Volleyball - In women’s volleyball, each institution is limited to 80 evaluation days (measured August 1 through July 31) per Bylaw 13.02.7.2.
  • A coach’s employment activities in instructional camps/clinics do not count toward the evaluation days limitation.
  • A coach’s involvement outside the contact/evaluation period with a local sports club per Bylaw 13.11.2.4 shall count toward the limit.

Evaluations - Football:  Limited to three evaluations during the academic year during which the prospective student-athlete competes or practices on any team.

• Fall Evaluation Period:  Not more than one evaluation may be used
• Spring Evaluation Period:  Not more than two evaluations may be used during the April 15 through May 31.
  • An authorized off-campus recruiter may use one evaluation to assess the prospective student-athlete’s athletics ability and one evaluation to assess the prospective student-athlete’s academic qualifications during the April 15 through May 31 evaluation period. If an institution’s coaching staff member conducts both an athletics and an academic evaluation of a prospective student-athlete on the same day during the April 15 through May 31 evaluation period, the institution shall be charged with the use of an academic evaluation only and shall be permitted to conduct a second athletics evaluation of the prospective student-athlete on a separate day during the evaluation period.
  • A Head Coach, during the April 15 through May 31 evaluation period, shall not engage in off-campus recruiting activities, participate in an off-campus coaching clinic, visit a prospective student-athlete’s educational institution for any reason, meet with a prospective student-athlete’s coach at an off-campus location, or attend or speak at a banquet or meeting that is designed to recognize prospective student-athletes (e.g., high school awards banquet, high school all-star banquet).

Evaluations - Men's Basketball

• USF is limited to seven recruiting opportunities (contacts and evaluations combined) during the academic year per prospective student-athlete.
• Men’s basketball coaching staff members shall not exceed 130 recruiting-person days during the academic year.
• April Evaluation Periods - During the April evaluation periods, USF shall be limited to nonscholastic events that are certified per Bylaw 13.18.
• Summer Evaluation Periods - During the summer evaluation periods, a USF basketball coaching staff may attend institutional basketball camps, noninstitutional organized events (e.g., camps, leagues, tournaments and festivals) that are certified per Bylaw 13.18 and noninstitutional organized events that are approved, sponsored or conducted by an applicable state, national or international governing body and are not organized and conducted primarily for a recruiting purpose (e.g., intrastate and interstate high school basketball games, state high school all-star games, international competitions and practices associated with such contests).

Evaluations - Women’s Basketball

• USF is limited to seven recruiting opportunities (contacts and evaluations combined) during the academic year per prospective student-athlete.
• Women’s basketball staff members shall not exceed 112 recruiting-person days each year (measured August 1 through July 31).
• A coach’s involvement in off-campus recruiting activities during the July evaluation periods does not count toward the limitation.
• Summer Evaluation Period - During the summer evaluation period, an institutional coaching staff member may attend institutional basketball camps per Bylaw 13.12.1.1 and noninstitutional organized events (e.g., camps, leagues, tournaments and festivals) that are certified per Bylaw 13.18.

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