Coaches will be in violation of an NCAA rule if they go on the road without being certified by Monday.

NCAA spokesperson Jane Jankowski said the NCAA was updating its website throughout each day and worked on July 4 to get this done in time for Monday. As of Friday morning, there were 56 schools that hadn't been approved, including 24 that haven't sent in any paperwork. Kansas was listed as a school that hadn't sent in anything on the subject, but one assistant coach said they had sent it last week and were expecting to be certified in time to go out on the road Monday. A number of lower-profile schools like Hampton, Quinnipiac, South Carolina State, Alcorn State and Central Florida didn't send in any paperwork, according to the NCAA's website.

Jankowski said the basketball certification staff was making telephone contact through athletic directors, compliance personnel or the head basketball coach to get the forms into the NCAA. Jankowski said any school that hasn't sent in any information was being sent two faxes requesting the forms.

One assistant coach said the forms were looking specifically at the month of April and didn't include events during the school year. That apparently will occur beginning in the fall and could pose some interesting questions when AAU or summer-team sponsored exhibition games take place on campuses. An example would be when teams like the California All Stars or EA Sports All Stars, both summer league teams, play D-I schools in exhibition games. Those teams receive compensation for playing in the game and then later sponsor teams in the summer. Full disclosure will likely be necessary when the NCAA asks for the forms again by early July, 2003.

Jankowski said schools first received notification in March, and were sent an updated reminder in late May. But for some reason the schools have waited to turn them in, forcing the NCAA to work through the holiday weekend to get schools approved.

"We were lucky that we saw it and sent it in Wednesday," said Kansas' assistant Joe Holladay. "There will be some schools that didn't know about it and go out anyway. Not a lot of people are working this week."

Meanwhile, Tennessee's coaches can go on the road Monday and not just because the Vols got their paperwork in on this issue. The state budget was passed Wednesday night and signed Thursday, allowing the Vols' coaching staffs to recruit. Even though the athletic department has a separate budget, the school wasn't going to be allowed to go on the road and recruit as long as there was no approved budget.

The NCAA certified the Nike and ABCD Adidas camps, which are open to coaches Monday in Indiana and New Jersey, after they too had to disclose their financial dealings before being approved. Other major events like the Big Time tournament in Las Vegas and the AAU nationals were all certified. Coaches who worked the events had to be certified, too, for the first time since the NCAA adopted new recruiting rules last summer.

Andy Katz is a senior writer at ESPN.com.