Extra Benefits
Student-athletes may not receive any tangible benefit that is not available to the general student body (e.g., discounts on clothing, food, shoes, free or reduced cost services, non-athletic related medical services, car loans, apartment leases, etc.). Receipt of any extra benefit will jeopardize your athletic eligibility and must be reported to the Compliance Office.
Some examples of non-permissible extra benefits include the following:
- Special discounts and credit
- Free or reduced cost service
- Use of telephone or credit card for personal reasons without charge
- Entertainment services (e.g., free Indiana Pacers tickets)
- Loans of money
- A guarantee of bond
- Use of an automobile or transporting of student-athletes
- Signing or co-signing a note with an outside agency
- Gifts or awards of any kind
- Use of a student-athlete's name/picture to promote a commercial product
- Use of school fax or copy machines without paying for the same
Occasional Meals
A student-athlete or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional meal in the locale of the institution 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 or the entire team in a sport may receive an occasional meal from a representative of athletics interests on infrequent and special occasions under the following conditions:
(a) The meal may only be provided in an individual's home, on campus or at a facility that is regularly used for home competition and may be catered; and
(b) A representative of the institution's athletics interest 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.
