Booster Information

Do's

• If desired, provide an occasional family meal for student-athletes. The meal must be in the home of the representative of athletics interests, and the meal can be catered. You may also provide transportation for the athletes attending this meal.

• Attend games where prospects are competing, as long as no contact is made with the prospect or prospect's parents.

• Continue normal contact with prospects with whom you have pre-established relationships, as longs as the contacts are not recruiting related.

• If desired, arrange employment for prospective student-athletes, as long as the employment begins after high school graduation, and pay is commensurate with the "going rate".

• Accept a phone call from a prospect, as long as the prospect initiates the call. All questions regarding the institution's athletics department should be directed back to the athletics department.

• Check with the Office of Compliance at 716-645-3146 before you do anything that may jeopardize a current or prospective student-athlete's eligibility. Better safe than sorry!

• Notify the Division of Athletics or coaching staff members about outstanding prospects.

Don'ts
• Provide a prospective student athlete, his/her parents, relatives, friends, or coaches with any material benefit. This includes, but is not limited to, free tickets to professional and collegiate athletics events, movie passes, gifts, loans of money, transportation, etc.

• Make recruiting presentations to groups of prospective student-athletes.

• Make in person on or off-campus recruiting contact, telephone calls, or establish written correspondence with prospective student-athletes.

• Entertain or provide awards or gifts for a current student-athlete, or his/her family and friends.

• Pay a student-athlete for a speaking engagement.

• Use a student-athlete's name, picture, or appearance to promote sales or advertise the use of a commercial product or service.

• Pay or offer to pay for registration fees for summer sports camps for a prospect.

• Don't provide a currently enrolled student-athlete with complimentary tickets to a professional sporting event, concerts, movies, etc. This applies even if you obtained the tickets free of charge. Providing student-athletes with free tickets to professional sporting and other events is considered an extra benefit.