NCAA Extra Benefit Rule

Texas Tech University athletic representatives cannot provide an "extra benefit" or special arrangements to a prospects OR to an enrolled student-athlete.

Examples of extra benefits:

• Giving cash or loans in any amount
• Signing or co-signing a note with an outside agency to arrange a loan. Employing relatives or friends of a student-athlete. Giving gifts of any kind(e.g., birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day) or free services (e.g., clothing, airline tickets, laundry, car repair, hair cuts, meals in restaurants).
• Providing special discounts for goods or services. Providing use of an automobile.
• Providing a meal other than in your home on special occasions (e.g., Thanksgiving, birthday).
• Providing use of your summer home to go water skiing, hunting, etc. Providing transportation for any purpose. Providing rent free or reduced rent housing. Providing a benefit connected with on or off campus housing(e.g., television set, stereo equipment).
• Providing tickets to an athletic, institutional or community event. Providing a guarantee of a bond.
• Providing promise of financial aid for post-graduate education. Promising employment after college graduation.

Please...

• DO NOT expend funds to entertain student-athlete, their friends or relatives. You are not even permitted to buy a soda or a cup of coffee for them.
• DO NOT provide awards or gifts to a student-athlete for his or her athletic performance. All awards must conform to NCAA regulations and must be approved by Texas Tech. DO NOT allow a student-athlete, his or her friends or relatives to use your telephone to make free long distance calls.
• DO NOT provide an honorarium to a student-athlete for a speaking engagement.
• DO NOT use the name or picture of an enrolled student-athlete to directly advertise, recommend or promote sales or use of a commercial product or service of any kind. Even the sale of a picture of an enrolled student-athlete would jeopardize their eligibility.
• DO NOT provide room, board, or transportation to friends or family of an enrolled student-athlete to enable them to visit campus or attend an away athletics contest.

However...

• DO feel free to invite a student-athlete to your home for a homecooked meal, but only on an occasional basis. Remember, the student-athlete must provide his/her own transportation and meals at restaurants are prohibited.
• DO feel free to invite a team for dinner or to meet with a group of alumni in a city where they are competing. Arrangements for such events must be made in advance with the head coach.