OT: Strange NCAA Rules
Writing an ethics papers related to student-athletes, and some of the rules in the D1 handbook are certainly strange.
Say you have a meal in the locker room for between practices or before a home game (road games are different). No walk-on, or anyone on a partial scholarship is allowed to touch it without paying the institution for it first (pg 198 of pdf).
Training Table Meals. An institution may provide only one training table meal per day to a student-athlete during the academic year on those days when regular institutional dining facilities are open (see Bylaw 15.2.2.1.6). A student-athlete who does not receive institutional athletically related financial aid covering the full cost of board, including a walk-on or partial scholarship recipient, may purchase one training table meal per day at the same rate that the institution deducts from the board allowance of student-athletes who receive athletically related financial aid covering board costs pursuant to Bylaw 15.2.2.1.6;I would have assumed team meals would have been covered exclusively, but apparently we we have to charge the Nick Sheridan's to have a sandwich. And at South Quad prices, that has to be a $10 sandwich. Yikes.
I can't imagine the Osborne-era Nebraska teams (which had as many walk-ons as scholarship players) abided by this rule.
Adopted 1991, revised in '96, '02, and '07. I think New Mexico or at team playing at New Mexico had one of these instances last year where team meal didn't arrive and they had to buy exactly a certain amount of turkey legs from the concession stands out of the coach's pocket. Cash only as it was a concession stand.
If a player loses his phone in your apartment, don't let him use your phone to find it. If he has to, charge him the going rate at a pay phone.
If a player asks you for directions on the street you are not allowed to give him a gift of a free answer. He must pay you the going rate for the cell phone data service that would have been required to use google maps to find the answer.