What Can a Booster Do?

• Provide employment for prospective or currently enrolled student-athletes during permissible periods. All compensation paid to a student-athlete must be for work actually performed and given at a rate equal to the going rate for a similar job in the local area.
• Attend games where prospects are competing, as long as no contact is made with the prospect or prospect's parents.
• Invite an individual student-athlete or an entire team in a sport for an occasional, occurring from time-to-time, meal provided the meal is in the individual's home (as opposed to a restaurant). The meal may be catered. Arrangements for these activities should be made through the head coach in the sport and the Athletic Compliance Office at VSU.
• Notify the Athletics Department or a member of the Valdosta State University coaching staff about outstanding prospects.
• Check with the VSU Compliance Office before you do anything that may jeopardize a current or prospective student-athlete's eligibility.

What is a Booster Prohibited from Doing?

• Providing a prospective student-athlete, his/her parents, relative, friends, or coaches with any material benefit.
• Make recruiting presentations to groups of prospective student-athletes.
• Entertain or provide awards or gifts for a current student-athlete, or his/her family and friends.
• Use a student-athlete's name, picture, or appearance to promote sales or advertise the use of a commercial product or service.
• Pay a student-athlete for a speaking engagement.
• Make in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts with a prospect or the prospect's relatives or legal guardian(s).

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