Recruiting Dictionary

 

Contact - Contact occurs any time a coach has any face-to-face contact with a recruit or their parents off the college’s campus and says more than hello. A contact also occurs if a coach has any contact with the recruit or their parents at the recruit's high school or any location where the recruit is competing or practicing. [top]

 

Partial qualifier - a student who has not grudated high school, sucessfully completed a core curriculum of at least 13 academic courses in the appropriate core areas, and/or have a a core-course grade-point average (based on a maximum of 4.000) and a combined score on the SAT verbal and math sections or a sum score on the ACT based on the partial qualifier index scale.

A partial qualifier is eligible to practice with Oregon State and receive an athletics scholarship during the student's first year at OSU. The student may not compete during his freshman year and has three seasons of competition remaining.

A partial qualifier may earn a fourth year of competition, provided that at the beginning of the fifth academic year following the student-athlete's initial, full-time collegiate enrollment, the student-athlete has received a baccalaureate degree. [top]

 

Prospective student-athlete - An athlete becomes a “prospective student-athlete” when:

- They start ninth-grade classes; or

- Before their ninth-grade year, a college gives them, their relatives or their friends any financial aid or other benefits that the college does not provide to students generally  [top]

 

Financial-aid agreement - a promise by a university to provide an athletic scholarship, but the agreement does not bind the athlete who signs it, as a national letter of intent does.  [top]

 

Nonqualifier - a student who has not graduated from high school or who has presented neither the core-curriculum grade-point average and SAT/ACT score required for a qualifier.

A nonqualifier shall not be eligible for regular-season competition or practice during the first academic year in residence and then has three seasons of competition remaining. A nonqualifier during the first academic year in residence shall be eligible for nonathletics institutional financial aid that is not from an athletics source and is based on financial need only.

A nonqualifier may earn a fourth year of competition, provided that at the beginning of the fifth academic year following the student-athlete's initial, full-time collegiate enrollment, the student-athlete has received a baccalaureate degree. [top]

 

Predictor - BLAH! [top]

 

Greyshirt - a player who signs a letter of intent out of high school but waits at least one term to enroll in college. The player usually delays enrollment to work on grades. [top]

Redshirt - a student-athlete who does not participate in competitive football for an entire year.  The individual may practice with the team.  A redshirt freshman has five years to play four. [top]



Contact period - permissible for authorized athletic department staff members to make in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts and evaluations. [top]

 

Dead period - not permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on- or off-campus or permit official or unofficial visits. [top]

 

Evaluation period - permissible for authorized athletics department staff to be involved in off-campus activities to assess academic qualifications and playing abililties. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts with a prospect are permitted. [top]

 

Quiet period - permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts only on Oregon State's campus. [top]

 

Core coures - there are 14 required core coures:

- Three years of English,
- Two years of math,
- Two years of natural or physical science including one year of lab,
- Two extra years of English, math or natural/physical science and
- Two years of social science, and three years of additional courses from above or foreign language,
nondoctrinal religion or philosophy. [top]

 

Official Visit - any visit to a college campus that is paid for by the college.The college may pay the following expenses:

- Your transportation to and from the college;
- Room and meals (three per day)for your and your parents while you are visiting the college;and
- Reasonable entertainment expenses,including three complimentary admissions to a home athletics contest.
- Before a college may invite you on an official visit,you will have to provide the college with a copy of your high-school transcript and SAT,ACT,PACT,PSAT or PLAN score. [top]