Proposal 2015-52 will allow institutions to pay the actual round-trip costs for a prospective student-athlete's parents or legal guardians to accompany the prospect on his official visit and will be implemented August 1, 2016.
The vote passed 14-1 with only the Sun Belt Conference voting against it, according to the NCAA's Division I Council report.
The current rule allowed for only the prospect's travel and accommodations to be paid for and prohibited schools from paying for transportation costs incurred by relatives, friends or legal guardians. Under that rule, prospects were either taking official visits by themselves or parents, guardians or high school coaches were taking on the costs to accompany the recruit on the visit.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...-guardians-accompany-recruits-official-visits
The vote passed 14-1 with only the Sun Belt Conference voting against it, according to the NCAA's Division I Council report.
The current rule allowed for only the prospect's travel and accommodations to be paid for and prohibited schools from paying for transportation costs incurred by relatives, friends or legal guardians. Under that rule, prospects were either taking official visits by themselves or parents, guardians or high school coaches were taking on the costs to accompany the recruit on the visit.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...-guardians-accompany-recruits-official-visits
