NCAA Certification & Compliance

As of June 1, 2012, NCAA Division I institutions are only permitted to subscribe to groups that educate and connect student athletes and coaches in men's basketball, football and women's basketball that have gone through the NCAA approval process.

At Next College Student Athlete (NCSA), we take pride in being compliant with the NCAA and are proud to announce that since this new rule came into effect, NCSA is among the first to be compliant. That means we get to continue assisting all 7,515 NCAA DI-DIII football and basketball coaches actively using the NCSA network to find athletes, but more importantly, continue educating student-athletes and families so they can succeed throughout the recruiting process.

NCSA has relationships with over 42,000 college coaches and over 1,700 collegiate programs across the country. During the 2010-11 season NCSA had 416,556 college coach connections in our Network and 35,127 active college coaches looking for recruits across all divisions from NCAA DI to NAIA to NCCAA to NJCAA.

NCAA Bylaws

Pertaining to NCSA

13.14.3 Recruiting or Scouting Services. An institution may subscribe to a recruiting or scouting service involving prospective student-athletes, provided the institution does not purchase more than one annual subscription to a particular service and the service: [D] (Adopted: 1/1/02, Revised: 8/5/04, 1/16/10)

Provides individual analysis beyond demographic information or rankings for each prospective student-athlete in the information it disseminates; (Revised: 4/13/10)

We are a team of former collegiate athletes and coaches who evaluate and qualify prospective student-athletes. Before any prospective student-athlete and their family decide to join the NCSA Network they will go through a recruiting analysis with a National Scout to learn about the process, where they stand and get a chance to see what we provide. Any prospective student-athlete can join for free before they enroll into a customized membership.

Pertaining to Video

Provides video that is restricted to regularly scheduled (regular-season) high school, preparatory school or two-year college contests and for which the institution made no prior arrangements for recording. (Note: This provision is applicable only if the subscription includes video services.) ... An institution is permitted to subscribe to a service that provides scholastic and/or nonscholastic video.

College coaches can observe prospective student-athletes via video (e.g., live streaming video, recorded video) since NCSA makes all videos available to the general public on our website and all services, including video, are free for all college coaches.

Pertaining to College Coaches

is made available to all institutions desiring to subscribe and at the same fee rate for all subscribers

Every college and university has access to NCSA for free. College coaches can click here to register for the Recruiting Management System and start connecting with potential recruits.

Pertaining to Testimonials

After becoming a student-athlete, an individual shall not be eligible for participation in intercollegiate athletics if the individual accepts any remuneration for or permits the use of his or her name or picture to advertise, recommend or promote directly the sale or use of a commercial product or service of any kind.

Once a student athlete has committed to an NCAA institution, he/she is not allowed to directly endorse NCSA. Having assisted so many student athletes in the recruiting process, many families choose to share their stories for others to learn from. That's why, to protect student athlete's eligibility and remain compliant with the NCAA, any feedback we get from college coaches and athletes committed to an NCAA institution has the name and pictures removed.

* Bylaws from 2011-2012 NCAA Manual