Sampson Gone?

[maxcam]

It looks like Sampson got a hair cut!

http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7824932?MSNHPHMA

[Bray]

And rightfully so. How hard is it to understandyou can't keep breaking the rules.

It will be interesting to see how the NCAA comes down on them.

[maxcam]

You have to remember we are talking about the Big 10 here......The same conference that one of its members said the butt whoopin shelled out by Florida in the BCS couldnt happen 2 years in a row.......:eek:

[Willie]

Report: Sampson finished as Indiana coach

Coach, staff were accused by NCAA of making 5 major recruiting violations

updated 56 minutes ago

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson will not coach another game for the Hoosiers, Indianapolis television station WTHR and FoxSports.com reported Thursday.
J.D. Campbell, the Indiana University director of media relations, told NBCSports.com he had no comment on the report. The university has no planned announcements on the situation yet, Campbell said.

Assistant coach Dan Dakich will take over as interim coach for the rest of the season, the TV station said.

Sampson was told Thursday morning that he would no longer be coach at Indiana, FoxSports.com reported, citing unnamed sources.

The NCAA has accused Sampson and some members of his staff of five major recruiting violations over improper telephone calls to high school players. The university was reviewing the allegations and has set a Friday deadline for a report and recommendation on action.

Trustee Philip Eskew Jr. told The Associated Press that he had been notified by e-mail that Indiana would have an announcement on Sampson's status Friday, but he did not have further details.

WTHR also reported that by Friday afternoon, Sampson and the university will reach a financial settlement ending his employment, or he will be suspended pending termination under the terms of his contract.

IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre declined to comment on the report.

"I don't have any knowledge on that," he said.

An NCAA report last week accused Sampson of providing false and misleading information to university and NCAA investigators about the phone calls and failing to promote a high standard of honesty and an atmosphere of compliance in the program.

Sampson has said he never intentionally provided false or misleading information to NCAA investigators.

A report by the university in October detailed more than 100 impermissible recruiting calls, most of them by assistant coach Rob Senderoff, who has since resigned. But at least 10 of them were three-way calls that Sampson had been patched into, a violation of NCAA restrictions imposed on Sampson for previous telephone improprieties while he was coach at Oklahoma.

The university has contended the violations were secondary, not major.

Dakich, 45, a former Indiana player and assistant coach and former head coach at Bowling Green, took Senderoff's spot on the coaching staff in early November.

Dakich, who was hired as IU's director of basketball operations in June, is subject to the same restrictions the university imposed on Senderoff, who was banned from calling recruits and making off-campus recruiting visits for one year.

The NCAA has scheduled a spring hearing on the accusations. Proven major violations come with penalties that include teams being excluded from postseason tournaments.

[slow-bow]

As I've stated here before(764 times, to be exact)...I hate IU's guts but, if the story is true then I will commend Indiana on choosing morals over wins. They're not gonna stand for a coach that won't follow the rules and lies; and this WAS his 2nd chance.
IU....I give you credit. You DO practice what you preach....and I like that approach.
Go Cats!!!:D

[KYhunter79]

I agree, Slowbow. Very ballsy thing to do with a solid team poised to make a good run in the tournament.

[maxcam]

Hey Kyhunter.....Do you applaud Kragthorpe for cutting Rod Council for armed robbery?

[KYhunter79]

Hey Kyhunter.....Do you applaud Kragthorpe for cutting Rod Council for armed robbery?

Yes, I do.

Did you see that new biography on Ramel Bradley? The westside story?

[maxcam]

I would send Billy G a case of his favorite bourbon if he would get rid of Captain Turnover and you know thats a fact!

[KYhunter79]

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee57/DHCfan/BG.jpg

[MsgMills]

Glad the cheater is gone, should never have hired the cheat to begin with.... Good man in Dakich to take over the team......:)

[Rob]

You guys get real, IU had no real choice, plain & simple. Sampson can coach but he is a loose cannon who can't follow the rules. If IU had kept him, the NCAA was gonna tear them a new one, maybe even the death penalty for a year. I'd like to hear: 1) Sampson explain that to the AD., 2) The AD explain that to the Pres., 3) The Pres explain that to the Board of Regents, & 4) The Board explain it to the students & alumni.

Here is the simple lesson IU needs to learn: If you hire a cheater, you get a cheater! And you better be prepared for the consequences.

[slickhead slayer]

I heard them talking about it on ESPN, they said the same thing. Said IU basically has no choice. IU hasn't been on probation in years, and Sampson was still on probation. And the sanctions came from an internal investigation by IU, they turned themselves in. Its easy to overlook all that if you get rid of the problem. If they kept him, the NCAA was going to rip em a new one. They despise coaches who don't respect the NCAA.
IU gets half the penalty they would have got if they kept him.

[slow-bow]

Could this now open the door for "The General" to make a triumphant return to Bloomington next season????????
Just food for thought.

[turkeytalker]

Could this now open the door for "The General" to make a triumphant return to Bloomington next season????????
Just food for thought.


#1. Bobby Knight is really sick


OR


#2. Bobby Knight was well aware of this before SHTF,and i think that points in one direction.

[maxcam]

can anybody hear me?

[kyhunter270]

Here in Kentucky, that would be Bourbon my friend.............

[KYhunter79]

Things might get ugly...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/luke_winn/02/22/indiana/index.html?eref=T1

[Multidigits]

Indiana, Sampson reach $750,000 settlement to part ways

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana and Kelvin Sampson reached a $750,000 settlement Friday, enabling the coach and the school to part ways immediately, the university said in a statement released Friday night.

Under the agreement, Sampson could not sue the university. An announcement was expected later Friday night.

"I am very sorry to see our relationship with Coach Sampson end this way, but we have to focus on doing what's best for the long-term interests of IU and its men's basketball team," athletic director Rick Greenspan said in the statement.

Signs of a coaching switch were evident at the team's practice Friday afternoon.

Assistant coach Dan Dakich, who will be named interim coach, directed the workout but was short-handed. Senior captain D.J. White, Armon Bassett, Jordan Crawford, Jamarcus Ellis, DeAndre Thomas and Brandon McGee were not on the court.

The Hoosiers were scheduled to depart for Evanston, Ill., on Saturday for IU's Big Ten game that night at Northwestern.
When asked about the possibility players had threatened not to play if Sampson weren't coaching, White told Indianapolis station WTHR, "I will not say it's not true."

A somber-looking assistant coach Ray McCallum, who will be promoted to assistant head coach, emerged from a meeting with Greenspan at 5:30 p.m. but ignored questions from reporters.
Greenspan met briefly with Sampson on Friday. A few minutes after Greenspan left the coach's office, Sampson was seen with his wife, Karen.

Players, managers, assistant coaches and the coach's son, Kellen Sampson, then gathered in the locker room for what appeared to be a team meeting. The meeting broke up about midday.

Star freshman guard Eric Gordon was on his way to the team's 3:30 p.m. ET practice when he told the AP that players have not been told of any decision regarding Sampson.

Last week Indiana president Michael McRobbie set a Friday deadline for Greenspan to give him a recommendation on what to do regarding Sampson's job status, which was cast in doubt after a Feb. 8 NCAA notice of allegations accused Sampson of five major recruiting violations over improper telephone calls to high school players.

The NCAA gave Indiana 90 days, under policy, to respond to the allegations. A hearing in front of the NCAA's committee on infractions is scheduled for June 14 in Seattle.

Indiana last week released the NCAA's report that accused Sampson of providing false and misleading information to university and NCAA investigators about the phone calls and failing to promote a high standard of honesty and an atmosphere of compliance in the program.

Sampson is in his second season with the Hoosiers, who are 22-4 and contending for the Big Ten title.