Extra Benefits
NCAA Definition
An extra benefit is any special arrangement by a Idaho employee or representative of Idaho's athletics interests (i.e., booster) to provide a student-athlete, recruit, or their family members or friends a benefit not authorized by NCAA rules.
*Examples of impermissible extra benefits include, but are not limited to:
•Cash or loans in any amount, or signing or co-signing for a loan;
•Payment of fees (e.g., camps, tutoring);
•Gifts of any kind, including birthday and holiday gifts;
•Free or reduced-cost services such as car repairs or washes, haircuts, etc.;
•The use of an automobile;
•A ride, on or off campus, except to an occasional home meal;
•Free rent, or reduced rent, housing;
•Tickets or special seating to an athletics or community event;
•Course supplies, typing or copying costs;
•Employing relatives or friends of a PSA as an incentive to enroll at The University of Idaho; and
•Entertaining a recruit or a recruit’s family or legal guardian on or off campus.
* Many extra benefits can become permissible per NCAA rules so long as a valid Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) arrangement is agreed upon between the student-athlete and the donor. For more information on this, please refer to our NIL webpage.
