You're hot stuff. You've got recruiters all over you, begging you to take your game to the next level. You're trying to say all the right things and look more mature than you really are. You're dressed in your Sunday best in the hopes of wearing the right letters on your chest next year.
You are, of course, a newly minted sorority girl.
Watching the signing, er, Bid Day festivities unfold on the Lawn last night complete with T-shirts, balloons and the kind of screaming that makes a Kiss concert sound like a book club, I couldn't help but wonder what the rules were for this kind of thing. Then I found them, right next to my copy of the "NCAA Recruiting Bylaws."
It turns out that the same policies that regulate contact between Al Groh and his prized five-star, 185-pound wide receiver prospect also apply to 115-pound girls with high heels and cashmere scarves. The differences are actually quite minor.
NCAA RULE 13.02.3: Contact
A contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's parents, relatives or legal guardian(s) and an institutional staff member or athletics representative during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting.
SORORITY RULE 12.04.8: Contact
A contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospective sorority-athlete and a sorority representative during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting. If no makeup is worn, it is not a contact. If either party does not remember the other party's name but continues the contact anyway, it shall count as half of a contact.
NCAA RULE 13.3.2.2: Banned Substances
Member institutions shall provide to all incoming prospective student-athletes and to prospective student-athletes' parents the NCAA banned drug list and information about nutritional supplements (see Bylaw 31.2.3.4).
SORORITY RULE 22.5.9: Banned Substances
Member sororities shall provide to all incoming prospective sorority-athletes and their parents the list of banned nutrition (i.e. Wendy's "Baconator" cheeseburgers and Chipotle burritos) that would result in loss of sorority eligibility.
NCAA RULE 13.02.4.3 Quiet Period
A quiet period is that period of time when it is permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts only on the member institution's campus. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts or evaluations may be made during the quiet period.
SORORITY RULE 34.5.9.8 Quiet Period
A quiet period is that period of time when the sorority-athlete is not talking. Recruits are required to observe at least one quiet period every 24 hours.
NCAA RULE 5.71.1: Prohibited Activities
A member institution, on its campus or elsewhere, shall not conduct (or have conducted on its behalf) any physical activity (e.g., practice session or test/tryout) at which one or more prospective student-athletes (as defined in Bylaw 13.11.1.1) reveal, demonstrate or display their athletics abilities in any sport except as provided in Bylaws 13.11.2 and 13.11.3.
SORORITY RULE 14.83.2: Prohibited Activities
A member sorority, in its house or elsewhere, shall not conduct (or have conducted on its behalf) any physical activity (e.g., mile runs, bench presses, squats, dead lifts, power cleans, sparring sessions) at which one or more sorority-athlete reveals her ability to dominate other sororities in intramural flag football.
NCAA RULE 13.02.10: National Letter of Intent
The National Letter of Intent referred to in this bylaw is the official document administered by the Collegiate Commissioners Association and used by subscribing member institutions to establish the commitment of a prospective student-athlete to attend a particular institution.
SORORITY RULE 14.22.3: National Letter of Intent
The Letter referred to in this bylaw is not actually a letter at all, but instead a complicated maneuver involving a "hug of intent" that, while holding a "balloon of intent," signifies commitment to a sisterhood until death (or drama) do them part.
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