NCAA Compliance
Ethical Conduct
Standards of Honesty and Sportsmanship (
Bylaw 10.01.1) – Individuals employed by (or associated with) a member institution to administer, conduct or coach intercollegiate athletics and all participating student-athletes shall act with honesty and sportsmanship at all times so that intercollegiate athletics as a whole, their institutions and they, as individuals shall represent the honor and dignity of fair play and the generally recognized high standards associate with wholesome competitive sports.
Unethical Conduct (
Bylaw 10.1) – Unethical conduct by a prospective or enrolled student-athlete or a current or former institutional staff member may include, but is not limited to, the following:
• Refusal to furnish information relevant to an investigation of a possible violation of an NCAA
regulation when requested to do so by the NCAA or the individual’s institution;
• Knowing involvement in arranging for fraudulent academic credit or false transcripts for a
prospective or an enrolled student-athlete;
• Knowing involvement in offering or providing a prospective or enrolled student-athlete an
improper inducement or extra benefit or improper financial aid;
• Knowingly furnishing the NCAA or the individual’s institution false or misleading information
concerning the individual’s involvement in or knowledge or matters relevant to a possible violation of an NCAA regulation;
• Receipt of benefits by an institutional staff member for facilitation or arranging a meeting
between a student-athlete and an agent, financial advisor or a representative of an agent of
advisor (e.g., “runner”), or
• Knowing involvement in providing a banned substance or impermissible supplement to
student-athletes, or knowingly providing medications to student-athletes contrary to medical licensure, commonly accepted standards of care in sports practice, or state or federal law.
