So confused - can someone help?

My daughter was asked to come to a private workout on a friday night with a few other girls at a D1 school. Then after the workout they asked us if we could pay $10.00 to make things look like a camp. So who knows how they were doing it.

By NCAA rule, tryouts or workouts are not allowed at D1 schools.  However, some colleges do it anyway.  In addition,  I think many D1 baseball programs have camps which are poorly publicized and relatively cheap, and the only players who find out about the camp are the ones that the college is interested in.

I have been told that if there are at least four players working out (plus at least token compensation) it can qualify as a clinic. Fewer than four, then it is an impermissible workout. Have not tried to verify this independently.

Thanks for the insight. I was trying to figure out if it was appropriate for my nephew to ask for a "workout ". Based on your responses, it's obvious that it would be inappropriate.  

How many schools are using this "clinic " approach?  I'd hate for him to end up at a school where the coach skirts the rules- but if they all do it.....

If the information I have been given is correct, then the four-plus person clinics aren't skirting the rules.

The context for how I got the information: High school kid asks a college asst coach, whom he happens to know, for some hitting lessons. Coach says he can't do it now that the kid is in high school and a "prospective student athlete", but if he can round up at least three other kids who would want to join him, that would be ok under NCAA rules.

Depending on your situation and the current relationship between your nephew and the school, he could innocently ask for a hitting/fielding/pitching lesson and see what happens

One of the coaches in this area would give "hitting lessons" and charge, my understanding was that it had to be a certain number, but less off campus. I don't know where in the rules it states that a D1 coach can't give lessons. Maybe 3FG could clarify.

They also had been seeing this one coach (who now is pretty well known if I mentioned him) since before HS.  Not one player ever signed with the D1 program he was affiliated with down here.

Now on the other hand, UM had  recruiting sanctions placed on them because HS prospects were attending a facility that was run and operated by a UM coach and also placed on teams to play. This all came about because the program showed certain "bias" toward certain players and that essentially PO'd lots of folks who reported them to the NCAA.