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DI Committee Adopts Proposal to Allow Student-Athletes, Staff to Bet On Pro Sports

The rule change must be approved by all three NCAA divisions

OCTOBER 9, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH
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🗞️ In Today’s Edition. DI Committee Adopts Proposal to Allow Student-Athletes, Staff to Bet On Pro Sports. DIII Proposed Legislation. MASCAC Adds Men’s Lacrosse. The Admission Hot Seat Keeps Getting Hotter. NJCU, Kean Sign Official Deal to Merge.

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1. DI Committee Adopts Proposal to Allow Student-Athletes, Staff to Bet On Pro Sports

The Division I Administrative Committee on Wednesday adopted a proposal that would permit student-athletes and athletics department staff members to bet on professional sports. . Divisions II and III are expected to consider the proposal during their respective meetings at the end of October. If approved by all three divisions, the rule change will be effective Nov. 1.

The NCAA prohibition against betting on college sports — and sharing information about college competitions with other bettors — remains in place. The change also would not impact rules prohibiting advertising and sponsorships associated with sports betting for NCAA Championships.”

» Driving The News. “The change comes as the NCAA enforcement staff's caseload involving sports betting violations has continued to increase in recent years, in which most of the violations the staff are pursuing involve conduct that directly impacts the integrity of college sports. The NCAA uses a layered strategy with integrity monitoring services to monitor more than 22,000 college sports contests each year to detect unusual line activities or other issues.”

» What They’re Saying. “Division I members are actively working to deregulate NCAA rules where possible. While NCAA members do not encourage student-athletes to engage in sports betting behaviors of any kind, the timing is right to modernize these rules by removing prohibitions against betting on professional sports and focusing on harm reduction strategies for behaviors that do not impact college sports directly.” - Tim Sands, president, Virginia Tech, chair of DI Board of Directors. (NCAA)

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2. Division III Proposed Legislation

The NCAA Division III Publication of Proposed Legislation is out and contains all the proposed amendments to DIII legislation.

Here are the amendments that affect lacrosse.

  1. Amend the current legislation to allow institutions to provide meals in an on-campus dining facility for a prospective student-athlete and those individuals accompanying the prospective student-athlete.

  2. Streamline the transfer certification process for Division III institutions and establish a system to allow for better tracking and information sharing.

  3. To specify that a student-athlete would be charged with a season of eligibility if the student-athlete competes at any point during the traditional season.

  4. To remove the exact dollar amounts and references to the value of awards from the awards legislation.

  5. To permit institutions to provide actual and necessary expenses for student-athletes to participate in one collegiate all-star contest or similar post-eligibility competitive event.

  6. To clarify that institutions may provide reasonable entertainment during the playing season; further that reasonable entertainment could include providing professional sports tickets.

  7. To permit institutions to provide expenses for practice sessions at any location, provided the student-athlete is eligible and no class is missed.

  8. To establish a seven-consecutive-calendar-day-period between December 15th and December 28th, in which student-athletes may not participate in any athletically related activities.

  9. To require an institution that is a core member of a conference to participate in the conference's automatic qualification (AQ) process for the sport(s) in which the institution sponsors.

  10. To develop a formula to provide multiple automatic qualifiers to multisport conferences that have 12 or more core members that sponsor a sport.

  11. To reduce the required minimum percentage of in-region competition for championships eligibility from 70% to 50% for all sports except golf, which would stay at 25%, and tennis, which would maintain its 50% requirement.

  12. To reduce the wait time for a multisport conference to receive an automatic qualification from two years to one year. (NCAA Division III)

3. MASCAC Adds Men’s Lacrosse

“The MASCAC Council of Presidents and MASCAC Commissioner Angela Baumann are proud to announce the addition of men’s lacrosse as the conference’s 20th sponsored sport.

Beginning in the 2026-27 season, Anna Maria College, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, MCLA, and Salem State University will represent the MASCAC core membership in men’s lacrosse. They will be joined by affiliate members Thomas College (Maine), Husson University, and Maine Maritime Academy to officially compete for a MASCAC Regular Season Championship and an end-of-season conference tournament.”

» What They’re Saying. “Lacrosse has a rich tradition in New England, and we’re proud to build on that history by providing this opportunity for our student-athletes”, Baumann continued. “Bringing men’s lacrosse into our championship lineup strengthens our conference, elevates our profile, and creates exciting new pathways for success.” (MASCAC)

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4. The Admission Hot Seat Keeps Getting Hotter

Pitzer College

“Enrollment leaders often confide in Angel B. Pérez. Recently, some have told him their jobs are wearing them down, wrecking their health, and wringing the joy out of their lives.

In August, Pérez, chief executive of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), got a call from an enrollment official who said she had just walked into her president’s office and quit. “This president thinks I am the savior who can fix all of the institution’s financial woes,” Pérez recalls her telling him that day, “but I’m not that, and none of us are.”

» Driving The News. “It’s true: Even the most brilliant enrollment tacticians can’t fix everything that’s broken at a given college any more than they could turn water into wine. Still, institutional leaders tend to demand an annual miracle: more applicants, more revenue, more everything — no matter the circumstances working against such goals. Those who don’t deliver often find themselves out of a job.”

» The Big Picture. “An admissions operation is singularly important because its work impacts all other parts of the institution. Just about everything a college does hinges on the labor of those who recruit, admit, and enroll students each year, from the senior enrollment official engineering complex marketing campaigns to the brand-new admissions officer visiting five high schools a day in the fall to talk up their institution to prospective applicants, some of whom will become next year’s tuition-paying freshmen.”

» Reality Check. “Pérez recalls how he and his admissions staff at Pitzer College had to make “painful” tradeoffs when deciding who to admit so that the institution would meet its net revenue goals. After a successful cycle in which the college’s admission rate hit a record-low 13 percent, the then-president told Pérez that, next year, the goal would be to lower it to 12 percent while also decreasing the discount rate and increasing revenue. “Why is that the goal?” the exhausted and frustrated admissions dean asked his boss. “When is it going to be enough?” (Chronicle of Higher Education)

5. New Jersey City University and Kean University Sign Official Deal to Merge

“New Jersey City University has signed a definitive agreement to become part of nearby Kean University, the institutions announced in a joint press release Wednesday.

The agreement — approved unanimously by both universities’ governing boards — is subject to accreditor approval by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education as well as by state and federal regulators. Officials expect the merger to be completed by July.

Once complete, NJCU will become “Kean Jersey City.” The two public institutions signed a letter of intent to merge in May after recent years of financial and governance turmoil at NJCU.”

» Between The Lines. “Under the merger terms, Kean will take on NJCU’s assets and liabilities. It will also honor NJCU students’ academic credits, need-based financial aid commitments and merit scholarships if they transition to Kean. Once they do, students will pay Kean’s tuition and fee prices, which amounted to $15,300 for full-time undergraduate students in the 2025-26 academic year.”

» Reality Check. “As for student sports, the agreement establishes a separate advisory committee to look at athletic programming at NJCU post-merger. The university currently competes in more than a dozen NCAA Division III sports, including men’s basketball, women’s softball, and men’s and women’s volleyball and track and field. The committee is expected to make its final report to Kean’s president in December.” (Higher Ed Dive)

6. Lightning Round

» Fundraising. “DePauw University announced a landmark $80 million philanthropic commitment from an anonymous donor, an alumnus of the university. This gift is one of the largest single gifts in the institution's nearly 200-year history and among the most significant in NCAA Division III athletics. The gift will enable the construction of a 70,000 square-foot athletic stadium and sports performance center.”

» Fundraiser. “For Dickinson men's lacrosse head coach Dave Webster and his program, there is an annual rite of passage that transcends the playing field. For the past 19 years, before the team even begins their competitive season preparation, they gather on the college's sand volleyball courts for something bigger than themselves: back on September 19th they held their annual 24-hour Volleyball-a-Thon to benefit the Greater Pennsylvania Region Chapter of the American Red Cross.”

7. Comings and Goings 


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