Bellarmine Student-Athlete Handbook
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Extra Benefits
An extra benefit is any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative of the institution’s athletics interests to provide a student-athlete or the student-athlete’s relative or friend a benefit that is not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. Receipt of a benefit is not a violation if it is demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institution’s students or their relatives or friends or to a particular segment of the student body (e.g., foreign students, minority students) determined on a basis unrelated to athletics ability.
Prohibited Financial Aid, Benefits and Arrangements
An institutional employee or representative of the institution’s athletics interests may not provide a student-athlete with extra benefits or services, including, but not limited to:
• Special discounts, payment arrangements or credit (e.g., credit line at a store) on a purchase or service (e.g., dry cleaning)
• Use of institutional telephones, long distance access codes or credit cards for personal reasons
• Use of institutional copy machines and fax machines for personal reasons
• An automobile or use of an automobile
• Free or reduced-cost services, rentals or purchases of any type
• Free or reduced-cost housing - student-athletes cannot accept free or reduced-cost housing from any Bellarmine employee or booster, or by anyone if the discount is based on the student’s status or reputation as a student-athlete. This includes housing in Louisville, in the student-athlete’s home city or any other location.
• Free or reduced-cost storage of personal belongings
• Loan of money, signing or cosigning of loans or guarantee of bond
• Transportation (e.g., a ride home with a coach, ride with a booster)
• Cash or like items (e.g., gift certificates)
• Tangible items (e.g., clothing, cars, jewelry)
• Impermissible academic services (e.g., typing reports, papers, letters for a student-athlete)
• Free or reduced-cost entertainment services from commercial agencies (e.g., movie tickets, dinners, use of car, reduced admission to institutional or community events)
• Educational expenses (other than from permissible institutional and outside sources)
A student-athlete cannot accept anything from a Bellarmine employee or booster. The acceptance by a student-athlete of any extra benefit is a violation of NCAA regulations and places the student-athlete’s eligibility for intercollegiate competition in jeopardy.
Permissible Benefits
Hometown Awards – A hometown group may pay reasonable and necessary expenses of a student-athlete returning home to receive an award for athletics accomplishments. The value of the hometown award cannot exceed $80.
Transportation – It is permissible for a student-athlete to receive reasonable local transportation (within a 30-mile radius of campus) on an occasional basis from a Bellarmine employee.
Occasional Meal - A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional meal in the locale of Bellarmine’s campus (within a 30-mile radius of campus) on infrequent and special occasions from an institutional staff member. An institutional staff member may provide reasonable local transportation to student-athletes to attend such meals. A student-athlete may receive an occasional family home meal from representatives of athletics interests on infrequent and special occasions under the following conditions:
• The meal must be provided in the individual’s home (as opposed to a restaurant) and may be catered; and
• A representative of Bellarmine’s athletics interests may provide reasonable local transportation to student-athletes to attend the meal function only if the meal function is at the home of that representative.
• A team may receive an occasional meal from the parent of a teammate at any location.
Incidental Benefits – Bellarmine may provide student-athletes with reasonable refreshments (e.g., soft drinks, snacks) for student-athlete’s educational and business meetings and, on an occasional basis, for celebratory events (e.g., birthdays).
Gambling
NCAA’s Don’t Bet On It Website
NCAA legislation states that staff members of Bellarmine’s athletics department, non-athletics department staff members who have responsibilities within or over the athletics department, staff members of a conference and student-athletes shall not knowingly participate in sports wagering activities or provide information to individuals involved in or associated with any type of sports wagering activities concerning intercollegiate, amateur or professional athletics competition.
Sports wagering includes placing, accepting or soliciting a wager (on a staff member’s or student-athlete’s own behalf or on the behalf of others) of any type with any individual or organization on any intercollegiate, amateur or professional team or contest. Examples of sports wagering include, but are not limited to, the use of a bookmaker or parlay card; Internet sports wagering; auctions in which bids are placed on teams, individuals or contests; and pools or fantasy leagues in which an entry fee is required and there is an opportunity to win a prize. A wager is any agreement in which an individual or entity agrees to give up an item of value (e.g., cash, dinner, shirt) in exchange for the possibility of gaining another item of value.
Institutional staff members who violate this policy and NCAA rules shall be subject to disciplinary and corrective actions to be determined by the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Student-athletes who violate the rules face the following sanctions:
(a) A student-athlete who engages in activities designed to influence the outcome of an intercollegiate contest or in an effort to affect win-loss margins ("point shaving") or who participates in any sports wagering activity involving the student-athlete's institution shall permanently lose all remaining regular-season and postseason eligibility in all sports.
(b) A student-athlete who participates in any sports wagering activity through the Internet, a bookmaker or a parlay card shall be ineligible for all regular-season and postseason competition for a minimum of a period of one year from the date of the institution's determination that a violation occurred and shall be charged with the loss of a minimum of one season of eligibility. If the student-athlete is determined to have been involved in a later violation of any portion of Bylaw 10.3, the student-athlete shall permanently lose all remaining regular-season and postseason eligibility in all sports.
