Deck 7: Recruiting and Decision Making

Question 1

The recruiting process is the culmination of years of effort on the part of prospects and their families as they participate on various sports teams and chase the dream of receiving athletically related aid to subsidize their college education. Which of the following is NOT a fact associated with this dream?

A) Federal and state governments require full disclosure concerning aid packages from all four-year colleges and universities.
B) The best chances to play an NCAA sport lie for both boys and girls in ice hockey and lacrosse (girls who play ice hockey in high school have an almost 25 percent chance to play at an NCAA program).
C) The NAIA reports that 77,000 student-athletes receive $800 million in annual athletic aid.
D) Nearly eight million boys and girls competing in high school sports, but just under 500,000 NCAA student-athletes, approximately 180,000 of whom receive some level of athletically related aid.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

An athletic grant-in-aid (GIA) refers to the amount of aid awarded to a prospective student-athlete based on his or her athletic ability. Which of the following is NOT a true statement regarding GIAs?

A) If a student-athlete receives any aid in which athletic ability is a determining criterion, the aid is awarded for a period of no fewer than five academic years.
B) The GIA consists of money to cover the cost of tuition and fees, room and board, and required course-related books.
C) Room and board funds may be used to cover off-campus housing and board.
D) Student-athletes may receive financial aid up to the full cost of attending their institution.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

_______________ sports are those where each student-athlete who receives athletically related aid in any amount counts toward the maximum allowable number of students receiving such aid.

A) Cumulative
B) Equivalency
C) Fully subsidized
D) Head count

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT part of the NCAA's general rule governing permissible recruiters?

A) Contacts are to be made only by "authorized institutional staff members."
B) Institutional staff members such as faculty can contact recruits at any time on or off campus.
C) Off-campus recruiting can be performed only by those who are certified annually regarding their knowledge of applicable recruiting rules.
D) To become certified to recruit off campus, personnel must pass a standardized national test developed by the NCAA to assess an understanding of recruiting and freshman eligibility legislation.

Question 5

Which of the following outlines the four types of recruiting periods for NCAA Division I football and basketball?

A) Active, Contact, Noncontact, Dead
B) Contact, Evaluation, Quiet, Dead
C) Contact, Noncontact, Evaluation, Dead
D) Contact, Dead, Open, Quiet

Question 6

Each of the following describes an important element of official visit information EXCEPT:

A) Certain sports such as football, basketball, and baseball can offer only a certain number of official visits.
B) Prospects are limited to five total official visits, none of which may occur before the opening day of classes for his or her senior year.
C) Schools may provide no more than three official visits to a prospect.
D) Visits are limited to 48 hours, beginning from the time the prospect steps on campus. After that period, the prospect must leave campus.

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a step in the decision making process?

A) Evaluate the alternatives for strengths and weaknesses
B) Generate the broadest possible range of alternatives
C) Involve others in the decision-making process
D) Select the optimal alternative

Question 8

One approach to overcoming information barriers in the decision-making process is called "__________," or "MBWA."

A) Making broad workplace accommodations
B) Marking big word actions
C) Management by walking around
D) Management by working actively

Question 9

The characteristics for comparison in __________ are not limited to costs or numbers of items, which are typically part of quantitative decisions. They are often more qualitative or subjective in nature.

A) Bounded rationality
B) Break-even analysis
C) Satisficing
D) T-charts

Question 10

The _____________________ is a binding agreement between a prospective student-athlete and a member institution," where a prospective student-athlete agrees to attend the institution full-time for one academic year (two semesters or three quarters), and the institution agrees to provide athletics financial aid for one academic year (two semesters or three quarters).

A) Grant-in-aid (GIA)
B) Head count scholarship (HCS)
C) National Letter of Intent (NLI)
D) NCAA Athletic Aid Agreement (AAA)

Question 11

The applicable definition for the term "recruiting" is any solicitation of a prospective student-athlete or a prospective student-athlete's family members by an institutional staff member or by a representative of the institution's athletics interests for the purpose of securing the prospective student-athlete's enrollment and ultimate participation in the institution's intercollegiate athletics program.

Question 12

The general rule in NCAA Division I is that off-campus recruiting contacts cannot be made with an individual (or his or her relatives or legal guardians) before August 1 at the beginning of his or her junior year in high school.

Question 13

Once decision goals are clear, the next step is to evaluate all the alternatives for strengths and weaknesses.

Question 14

All Division II and III sports are equivalency sports for the purposes of awarding athletically related aid.

Question 15

According to Bylaw 13.02.13 of the NCAA Division I Manual, a prospective student is a student who has started classes for the ninth grade, or if a student has not started classes for the ninth grade, he or she becomes a prospective student-athlete if the institution provides such an individual (or the individual's family members or friends) any financial assistance or other benefits that the institution does not provide to prospective students generally. It is at the point that all applicable recruiting bylaws are imposed.

Question 16

Identify and explain how Bard head men's lacrosse coach Brian Praetorius would implement the six steps in the decision making process in attracting eight prospects to matriculate next year.

Question 17

Identify and explain the difference between head count and equivalency sports and how are these limits determined.

Question 18

Identify two of the noteworthy limits regarding official visits for NCAA member schools, and explain the rationale behind these limits.

Question 19

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of group-based decision making using a specific example from the chapter.

Question 20

Identify and explain the ethical issues surrounding negative recruiting as described in the chapter.