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IU Head Basketball Coach Kelvin Sampson Once Again Caught Cheating
(Disclosure: I went to the University of Illinois and am not writing this column about Indiana Head Coach Kelvin Sampson because of the Eric Gordon saga. I could care less about Gordon’s decision, even though, it was a bad one. In one year at Indiana, Gordon won’t learn much under Sampson. In one year at Illinois, Bruce Weber would have improved his game. Weber is simply the better coach and the better person.)
Well look who’s at it again! Indiana Hoosiers Head Coach and perpetual scumbag Kelvin Sampson finds himself in the center of more recruiting violations, once again getting nabbed for making impermissible phone calls to recruits.
Sampson was tight-lipped this afternoon as reporters asked him about the 10 impermissible phone calls that he admitted making to IU basketball recruits. Amazingly, Sampson was found guilty of the same cheating prior to leaving Oklahoma for Indiana after the 2006 NCAA Tournament.
It’s amazing that a guy like Sampson continues to have a job. To begin with, he’s not a very good basketball coach. Add that to the fact that he’s a slime ball, and Indiana has got themselves a real winner.
Sadly, Sampson will survive, get slapped on the wrist yet again by the outdated NCAA, and eventually be all the rave as the Hoosiers likely make a run to the Sweet Sixteen this season with Gordon and center D.J. White.
It’s very unfortunate that a guy like Sampson, who is liked by most of the national media because he is typically very accessible to them, continues to break the rules. College recruiting is as about as dirty of a business as there is, and Sampson is a king of filth.
While former Hoosiers Head Coach Bobby Knight was a bore, at least he didn’t cheat. People may justifiably disagree with Knight’s many dubious actions, but they’d all agree that Knight never did things like Sampson while recruiting.
Indiana basketball, once a symbol of the grandeur and tradition of college hoops, is now the bastion of all that’s wrong with the modern game today, thanks to Sampson and school officials with no guts to get rid of this guy. For shame, for shame!
by Chris Maynard, chris@hoops4thesoul.com
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Well look who’s at it again! Indiana Hoosiers Head Coach and perpetual scumbag Kelvin Sampson finds himself in the center of more recruiting violations, once again getting nabbed for making impermissible phone calls to recruits.
Rumors abound about a one-year-ban for IU from post-season and Sampson resigning come Wednesday (December 12, 2007).