NCAA Division I Recruiting: Identifying and Mitigating Institutional Risk Associated with the Official Visit

Lawrence, Heather J.; Kaburakis, Anastasios; Merckx, Christina

doi:10.1123/jlas.18.1.89

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“…For a student traceur to successfully win damages from an educational institution for injuries occurring during participation in parkour on campus, the student must first prove that the institution had a legally recognized duty to protect the student from that injury. The amount of protection an institution of higher learning owes its students has changed over time, and courts still disagree (Lawrence, Kaburakis, & Merckx, 2008). Lake (1999) notes that before the 1960s, the doctrine of in loco parentis and various tort immunities largely insulated institutions of higher education from legal interference.…”

Section: B Potential Legal Issuesmentioning

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Intramural Sport Marketing: An Examination of Effectiveness, Participant Motives, and Demographic Differences

DeMartini

2014

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Parkour, an extreme recreational activity in which one overcomes obstacles in the most quick, efficient, and flowing way, encompasses running, jumping, vaulting, and climbing. The activity is gaining popularity on college campuses. The purposes of this study were to survey campus recreation administrators' views and policies on parkour and explore the potential legal liability higher education institutions face with the rise in participation in this potentially dangerous activity. The results showed little sanctioned parkour activity on college campuses and that recreation administrators do not appear to be worried. The legal analysis indicated that currently colleges and universities would not likely face legal liability for students who are injured while participating. However, prudent college recreational professionals must remain aware of new activities on campus and may want to take additional steps to insulate themselves from risks of legal liability.

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Section: B Potential Legal Issuesmentioning

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Intramural Sport Marketing: An Examination of Effectiveness, Participant Motives, and Demographic Differences

DeMartini

2014

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“…According to the NCAA (2008, bylaw 13.02.11), a prospective student-athlete or recruit is someone who starts class for the ninth grade and has interest in playing intercollegiate sports (Lawrence, Kaburakis, & Merckx, 2008). Recruiting is -any solicitation of a prospective student-athlete […] by an institutional staff member […] for the purpose of securing the prospective student-athlete's enrollment and ultimate participation in the institution's intercollegiate athletics program‖ (NCAA, 2008, bylaw 13.02.12, p. 79).…”

Section: Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The NCAA has previewed and ruled in details recruiting forms that vary from telephone calls, to official and unofficial visits. Details presented in these rules are so extensive that only the official visit, for example, is controlled by over 300 bylaws (Lawrence, et al, 2008).…”

Section: Recruitmentmentioning

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“…Official visit is a visit of a prospective student-athlete financed totally or partially by a university (NCAA, 2008, bylaw 13.02.15.1). From a legal point of view, it is important to mention that many prospective athletes are minors at the time of their of their official visits (Lawrence, et al, 2008). Therefore, recruiting institutions should owe a duty of care to them.…”

Section: Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two examples are He got game (by Spike Lee) and a documentary entitled Hoop Dreams. Academic papers have also described a great number of irregularities in the recruitment process (Lawrence, et al, 2008). A historical investigation about NCAA violations has shown that recruiting violations are the most common in intercollegiate athletics (Mahony, Fink, & Pastore, 1999).…”

Section: Recruitmentmentioning

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Patterns of Bureaucracy in Intercollegiate Athletic Departments

Rocha

Chelladurai²

2013

Journal of Sport Management

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The theoretical argument of the current research is that athletic departments have been effective in attaining their conflicting goals mainly because they have become highly effective in managing institutional rules. Neo-institutionalism (DiMaggio & Powell, 1991), loose coupling (Meyer & Rowan, 1977), and patterns of bureaucracy form the theoretical cornerstone of the current research. Sport management investigations about goals and processes of intercollegiate athletics (Trail & Chelladurai, 2000) offer an unique opportunity to investigate these sociological theories of management in sport contexts. The initial endeavor of the current research was to explore and describe relationships between intercollegiate athletics goals and processes and coaches' perceptions about how institutional rules have been negotiated inside athletic departments (patterns of bureaucracy). To attain this aim, first, I proposed a scale to measure different patterns of bureaucracy in athletic departments and tested its psychometric properties. Then, I investigated the structural relationships among intercollegiate athletics goals, processes, and patterns of bureaucracy. I received back 382 questionnaires from Division I coaches (response rate of 38.2%), 326 from Division II (32.6%), and 359 from Division III (35.9%). From these questionnaires some had to be eliminated due to either the irresponsible nature of the responses. A final sample of 907 (n divI = 322; n divII = 277; n divIII = 308) was used to test the hypotheses. For controlling for non-response error, late respondents were compared iii to early respondents. Late respondents did not differ from early respondent in any variable for all three divisions. Initial confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) showed acceptable fit indexes, but some items did not load sufficiently high in their constructs.After some refining, the new proposed bureaucracy scale presented good psychometric properties, as did the goals and processes scales. Multiple-group CFA indicated fully measurement invariance for bureaucracy and goals scales, and partial measurement invariance for processes scale.Single-group structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses showed that the correlation between developmental and performance goals was large and significant for all three divisions (r divI = .654; r divII = .660; r divIII = .582). The regression coefficient of developmental processes on developmental goals was large and significant for all three divisions ( divI = .924; divII = .909; divIII = .853). Also, the regression coefficient of performance processes on performance goals was large and significant for all three divisions ( divI = .902; divII = .780; divIII = .933). For all three divisions, developmental process was a significant predictor of all three types of bureaucracy: mock bureaucracy ( divI = -.313; divII = -.392; divIII = -.406), representative bureaucracy ( divI = .289; divII = .414; divIII = .411) and discordant bureaucracy ( divI = .226; divII = .331; divIII = .282). Multiple-group SEM analyses showed...

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A fork in the road: factors contributing to elite hockey players’ decisions to choose the NCAA route

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NCAA Division I Recruiting: Identifying and Mitigating Institutional Risk Associated with the Official Visit

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Intramural Sport Marketing: An Examination of Effectiveness, Participant Motives, and Demographic Differences

Intramural Sport Marketing: An Examination of Effectiveness, Participant Motives, and Demographic Differences

Patterns of Bureaucracy in Intercollegiate Athletic Departments

A fork in the road: factors contributing to elite hockey players’ decisions to choose the NCAA route

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