Disassociated Booster

[Upyurs]

Curious...What all involvement can a disassociated booster be with a university? Are they to have zero contact period with Coachs, administrators? What specifically are the limitations?

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Spill it

 

[Upyurs]

May be completely benign but hypothetically speaking....whink whink. Can one obtain sign memorabilia from a head coach? Would assume they could always say they got it from friend of friend but at some point they still in contact. Wouldn’t think just anyone can get this stuff at ease. Current booster providing to disassociated booster????

 

[thatsbaseball]

If you think the NCAA is going to look at anything that benign after letting them get away all that other stuff you're a little on the naive side bro.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

You know rules don’t apply to those ********. They just received validation of this.
Really unfortunate.

 

[Upyurs]

In no way do I think NCAA would do anything, was just curious what their limitations were. Is there a level of contact with the University that is acceptable?

 

[patdog]

Real world, it doesn't mean a thing. They can't contribute to the athletic dept, but their wife can. They can't buy tickets, but their wife can. I'm sure they're not supposed to have access to coaches and administrators, but how are you going to police that? I've never heard of a school or a booster getting into trouble because a disassociated booster had too much access and I doubt I ever will.

 

[tatedog]

Disassociated boosters... what a 17ing joke.

 

[cowbell88]

Disassociated Booster= someone who must pay cash to said university; instead of paying with check and being able to use that as a “donation” on said boosters taxes.

 

[o_dawgnabit]

I have always viewed disassociated as a PR scam. They all still go to games and contribute to the university. No way a university is NOT going to take a donation

 

[Go Budaw]

Real world, it doesn't mean a thing. They can't contribute to the athletic dept, but their wife can. They can't buy tickets, but their wife can. I'm sure they're not supposed to have access to coaches and administrators, but how are you going to police that? I've never heard of a school or a booster getting into trouble because a disassociated booster had too much access and I doubt I ever will.

Actually, they absolutely can buy tickets. They just can’t buy them through the university (in theory), so they have to go through StubHub or some other such site to do so. There’s nothing preventing them from attending games. It’s not like every event staff in the stadium has a photo of each disassociated booster like they are kids on the back of a milk carton. And honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if even university ticket sales functions don’t have any sort of prevention method for ticket purchases. They could definitely always just stroll up to the ticket office in person and pay cash for season tickets, then pick them up at will call at the first home game.

It’s really a laughable penalty, in which the only true purpose is to provide the NCAA with an avenue to issue harsher sanctions later if the same booster is caught again meddling with another recruit or current player.