Sun Belt to Institute Availability Reporting for 2025 Football Season

Football
8/21/2025 10:00:00 AM

NEW ORLEANS — Beginning with the 2025 season, the Sun Belt Conference will publish availability stories for all convention soccer video games and can undertake a overview course of for feigning accidents. 
 
These insurance policies are meant to advertise and protect the integrity of competitors, with availability stories additionally defending student-athletes and institutional employees from outdoors entities looking for to acquire inside details about availability.
 
AVAILABILITY REPORTS
 
Prior to every convention sport, Sun Belt soccer packages will confide in the general public—through a standardized availability report—when a student-athlete’s skill to take part in an upcoming sport is unsure for any motive. 
 
An preliminary availability report can be printed three days prior to every convention sport (e.g. Wednesday earlier than a Saturday sport), with a gameday replace to be offered by 10:30 a.m. ET/9:30 a.m. CT on gameday. 
 
Student-athletes should be designated as accessible, possible, questionable, uncertain or out on the preliminary availability report. Student-athletes should be designated as accessible, sport time choice or out on the gameday replace. 
 
All availability stories can be publicly accessible on SunBeltSports activities.org. 
 
FEIGNING INJURIES
 
An injured participant should be given full safety underneath the principles, however feigning an damage is dishonest, unsportsmanlike and opposite to the spirit of the principles. 
 
For questionable sport motion, a collaborating establishment, the Sun Belt Conference or the Sun Belt Coordinator of Football Officials, has the choice to seek the advice of the nationwide coordinator of soccer officers, who will facilitate a video overview. 
 
Failure to comply with the supply reporting coverage and feigning accidents will every be topic to overview and potential penalties.