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A contact is when a coach has any face-to-face contact with a student-athlete or the student-athlete's parents off the college’s campus. A contact also occurs if a coach has any contact with the student-athlete or the student-athlete's parents at the student-athlete’s high school or any location where the student-athlete is competing or p [..]

A contact period is a time when a college coach may have in-person contact with a student-athlete and the student-athlete’s parents on or off the college’s campus. The coach may also watch the student-athlete play or visit the student-athlete's high school.

A dead period is a time when a college coach may not have any in-person contact with the student-athlete or the student-athlete's parents at any time. The coach may write and telephone during this time.

An equivalency sport is a sport that has a set number of scholarships but each one can be divided into partial scholarships. For example, division one baseball is an equivalency sport. Division one baseball programs have 11.7 scholarships that can be divided among student-athletes. Obviously if the student-athlete is good enough, they can offer the [..]

An evaluation is an activity by a coach to evaluate a student-athlete’s academic or athletic ability. This would include visiting the student-athlete’s high school or watch the student-athlete in competition or practice.

An evaluation period is a time when a college coach may watch a student-athlete play or visit the high school but cannot have any in-person conversations with student-athlete or student-athlete's parents off the college’s campus. The student-athlete and the student-athlete's parents can visit a college campus during this period and a coac [..]

A head count sport is a sport that has a set number of scholarships and they are full scholarships. For example, division one football is a head count sport. Division one football programs have 85 scholarships and they are all full scholarships, there are no partial scholarships.

A national letter of intent is the document a student-athlete signs when he or she agrees to attend the designated college or university for one academic year.

A nonqualifier is a student who has not graduated from high school or who, at the time specified in the regulation, did not present the core-curriculum grade-point average and/or SAT/ACT score required for a qualifier.