Fan & Booster Information: Permissible Actions with Prospect
Things you MAY do as a “Representative of Falcon Athletics”:
- You may continue established family relationships with friends and neighbors who have prospective student-athletes in their
family provided you engage in normal activities with these friends and don’t attempt to recruit the prospect
- You may offer assistance to members of the athletics staff that are recruiting in your community by sending the BGSU coaching
staff information (i.e. newspaper clippings) about prospects you think may be of interest
- You may speak to a prospect via telephone only if the prospect initiates the phone call and the call is not for recruiting
purposes. Any inquiry regarding BGSU Athletics Program must be referred to the BGSU Athletics Department.
- You may observe a prospect’s athletics contest on your own initiative, but you may NOT contact a prospect on any such occasion.
- You may discuss summer employment arrangements with a prospect after he/she has signed a National Letter of Intent
- You may make financial donations to a high school athletics program in your hometown’s immediate locale provided:
a.) You make a donation on your own record
b.) Your donation is distributed through the normal channels established by the high school
c.) Your donation is not earmarked for a specific prospect
