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colleyvillesooner
5/25/2006, 02:15 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2457878


Former Oklahoma basketball coach Kelvin Sampson cannot recruit off-campus for Indiana or make phone calls for one year, ending May 24, 2007.

The NCAA announced Thursday its decision in the case that involved improper phone calls to recruits when Sampson was still coaching at Oklahoma.



The Associated Press left messages at the offices of Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan and sports information director Pete Rhoda. Sampson was in Kuwait and unavailable for comment Thursday. A message also was left on the cell phone of Michael Glazier, Sampson's attorney.

The infractions committee heard the case April 21 in Salt Lake City. Sampson testified then about more than 550 impermissible phone calls he and his assistants placed between 2000 and 2004.

Since joining the Hoosiers in March, Sampson has acknowledged making mistakes during his tenure at Oklahoma, which imposed its own penalties for 2005-06 and 2006-07 including recruiting restrictions and freezing Sampson's salary at $1.01 million.

Sampson was set to make $1.1 million in the first year of a seven-year deal with Indiana and $1.6 million a year after that.

But the contract Sampson signed April 20 says Indiana "may take further action, up to and including termination" if the NCAA "imposes more significant penalties or sanctions than the University of Oklahoma's self-imposed sanctions."

The contract also explicitly states Sampson is not eligible during his first year for performance bonuses, such as winning the Big Ten title. It also gives the school the right to fire Sampson without obligation if his assistant coaches commit serious or repeated NCAA rules violations.

The Hoosiers have not been found guilty of a major violation since 1960.

jk the sooner fan
5/25/2006, 02:18 PM
ouch, wonder how IU will handle this

GrapevineSooner
5/25/2006, 02:28 PM
Fool me once...

Flagstaffsooner
5/25/2006, 02:29 PM
Slap on the wrist.

CtheB
5/25/2006, 02:29 PM
Last time Sampson was barred from off-campus recruiting, we got a top 10 recruiting class.

colleyvillesooner
5/25/2006, 02:30 PM
Last time Sampson was barred from off-campus recruiting, we got a top 10 recruiting class.

Yeah, cause he was calling them 10 times a day :P

colleyvillesooner
5/25/2006, 02:31 PM
Think about all the looks he's gonna get during recruiting period anytime he's on the phone.

Flagstaffsooner
5/25/2006, 02:32 PM
ouch, wonder how IU will handle this
They seem to have a high tolernce level with coaches.

As long as they are winning.

1stTimeCaller
5/25/2006, 03:09 PM
what about that Simpson fella? Did he get into any trouble?

TIA

Mjcpr
5/25/2006, 03:11 PM
what about that Simpson fella? Did he get into any trouble?

TIA
Got off on the criminal charges, paying through the nose on the civil charges.

But that's not important right now.

BoomerSoonhauer
5/25/2006, 03:13 PM
OK, so . . . no further scowls or penalties to OU over all of this?? Just the self imposed stuff??

If so, that would be sweet.

Beef
5/25/2006, 03:18 PM
what about that Simpson fella? Did he get into any trouble?

TIA
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badger
5/25/2006, 03:50 PM
No further sanctions for OU

• Self-imposed probation extended, Sampson faces further sanctions


By John Shinn
Transcript Sports Writer
The NCAA Committee on Infractions announced Thursday afternoon Oklahoma’s men’s basketball program will face no additional sanctions.
The announcement capped a five-year investigation into major rules violations involving 577 impermissible phone calls to recruits.
The committee extended OU’s self-imposed ban for an additional 11 months and issued a public reprimand and censure.
OU’s self-imposed probation was to end on June 30, 2007. The committee extended it to May 24, 2008.
However, the NCAA accepted the university’s self-imposed sanctions of reductions in scholarships, recruiting calls and visits by recruits.
The university was able to avoid a severe “lack of institutional control” finding that could have resulted postseason ban.
NCAA enforcement staff had recommended such a finding but the infractions committee disagreed and found the Sooners guilty of a lesser charge of “failure to monitor.”
Former coach Kelvin Sampson, who left for Indiana two months ago, was found to have made 233 of the impermissible calls and will face additional sanctions.
He will be banned from calling recruits and visiting them off-campus for the next year.
“This case is a result of the former head coach’s complete disregard for NCAA guidelines for proper telephone contacts with recruits,” said Thomas Yeager, acting chair of the committee and commissioner of the Colonial Athletic Association. “The former head coach created and encouraged an atmosphere among his staff of deliberate noncompliance, rationalizing the violations as being a result of ‘prioritizing’ rules.”
Sampson’s contract at Indiana says he can be fired if further sanctions are imposed.
Two of his former assistants, Ray Lopes and Jim Shaw, were also punished.
Lopes, who received a three-year “show cause” penalty for similar violations committed while he was head coach at Fresno State, received the same sentence Thursday.
The “show-cause” finding requires him to appear before the infractions committee before seeking employment with another NCAA school for the next three years. The penalties will run concurrently.
The NCAA accepted the self-imposed penalties placed on former OU assistant Jim Shaw. Shaw, who made 107 of the calls, is currently an assistant at Washington.
Former assistant Bob Hoffman, who was not retained by new coach Jeff Capel, was found to have made 28 calls. But the committee ruled his violations minor and elected not to keep an individual record of his violations.

Link: http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_145162618.html

NormanPride
5/25/2006, 04:32 PM
Showoff. ;)

SoonerShark
5/25/2006, 04:50 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12975521/from/RS.2/



Sampson hit with 1-year recruiting ban
NCAA says Indiana coach made extra calls to recruits while at Oklahoma
The Associated Press
Updated: 3:23 p.m. CT May 25, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA banned new Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson from calling recruits and visiting them off-campus for one year on Thursday, ruling he deliberately broke its rules by making extra phone calls to potential players while coaching Oklahoma.

The decision, announced by the committee on infractions, also requires Indiana to adopt the restrictions Oklahoma placed on Sampson, where he coached before Indiana hired him earlier this year.

“This case is a result of the former head coach’s complete disregard for NCAA guidelines for proper telephone contacts with recruits,” infractions committee chairman Thomas Yeager said in a written statement. “The former head coach created and encouraged an atmosphere among his staff of deliberate noncompliance, rationalizing the violations as being a result of ’prioritizing’ rules.”

The contract Sampson signed with Indiana on April 20 says the school “may take further action, up to and including termination” if the NCAA “imposes more significant penalties or sanctions than the University of Oklahoma’s self-imposed sanctions.”

It was not immediately clear if the Hoosiers would fire Sampson, who was in Kuwait and unavailable for comment. A message was left on the cell phone of Michael Glazier, Sampson’s attorney.

Indiana officials were expected to release a written statement later Thursday.

“Obviously, we anticipated some type of sanction, and this one seems to fit these minor infractions,” Indiana trustee Patrick Shoulders said.

It also was not clear whether the Hoosiers would face a scholarship loss, one of the sanctions Oklahoma imposed.

Indiana hired Sampson in March amid an investigation into 577 extra phone calls Sampson and Sooners assistant coaches made to 17 recruits from 2000 and 2004. The calls violated NCAA restrictions, and the infractions committee determined Sampson made 233 of them.

The committee used strong language in its ruling, calling Sampson’s actions “deliberate noncompliance,” “willful violations” and found it “troubling” that he was the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches when the infractions occurred.

The committee also determined extra calls gave Oklahoma a significant recruiting advantage since five players actually decided to attend the school.

Sampson has acknowledged making “mistakes.”

But the committee ruled Sampson did not consider his infractions serious.

“At a time when the NABC identified impermissible phone contact as a serious issue, and the organization was calling on its membership to be accountable, the former head coach and his staff were engaged in a pattern of willful and significant recruiting violations,” the committee said.

Yeager’s committee heard the case April 21 in Salt Lake City, where Sampson testified.

Oklahoma, which escaped major sanctions from the NCAA inquiry, had also frozen Sampson’s salary at $1.01 million in 2005-06 and 2006-07 and prohibited him from receiving performance bonuses.

Sampson is scheduled to make $1.1 million in the first year of a seven-year deal with Indiana and $1.6 million a year after that. The contract also explicitly states Sampson is not eligible during his first year for performance bonuses and gives Indiana the right to fire Sampson if his assistant coaches commit serious or repeated NCAA rules violations.

The Hoosiers have not been found guilty of a major violation since 1960.

The NCAA extended Oklahoma’s self-imposed probation for an additional 11 months and issued a public reprimand and censure but otherwise accepted the university’s self-imposed sanctions, which included reductions in scholarships, recruiting calls and trips and visits to the school by prospective recruits.

The infractions committee instituted a two-year probation ending on May 24, 2008. The university’s self-imposed probation was to end on June 30, 2007.

TJKDone
5/25/2006, 05:36 PM
I can't believe that a university with a basketball pedigree like Indiana is treating these violations so casually.

I wouldn't think that IU would stand for a coach who has proven to knowingly cheat no matter how successful he has been.

This guy was president of the coaches association????????

Hook'em

Soonerwolf
5/26/2006, 06:52 AM
The penalties are hardly severe according to this ESPN article:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=katz_andy&id=2458353

Sampson cannot call recruits or visit them off-campus, but he can visit them on campus, send them text and e-mail messages which could prompt the recruits to call him. Also his assistants can direct phone calls from recruits to him inbound. Hardly debilitating.

The NCAA should have completely cut-off all inbound/outbound/on and off campus contact onr day for each inappropriate phone callmade by Sampson while he was at OU. This would have hampered his ability and really let IU re-consider keeping him on as thier coach. OU got the worst of it with the self-imposed penalties.

TripleOption14
5/26/2006, 08:35 AM
The penalties are hardly severe according to this ESPN article:

Exactly!! Nothing more than a slap on the wrist for both parties involved. I'm starting to think that the NCAA really doesn't want to do anything as far as handing out tough sanctions anymore. Must be to much paper workto deal with.

Taxman71
5/26/2006, 09:01 AM
Let's be practical. These violations did not involve grade fixing, cash payments, cars, hookers, etc. It is just phone calls. I thought the punishment to both parties is more than enough.

TJKDone
5/26/2006, 09:33 AM
Let's be practical. These violations did not involve grade fixing, cash payments, cars, hookers, etc. It is just phone calls. I thought the punishment to both parties is more than enough.

While you may not consider them severe (I'd tend to agree), I still don't understand why IU doesn't feel like they can't do better. The NCAA called the violations significant. Isn't IU one of the most storied basketball programs in the country?

Now they have a guy who has to fight this label and by keeping him it tarnishes their reputation. Maybee five guys aren't available to IU in coaching. They don't need Sampson.

Hook'em

Taxman71
5/26/2006, 10:28 AM
True, Indiana could have done better and I was as shocked as anyone that they offered KS considering the NCAA baggage and his somewhat inability to keep the fanbase excited. Perhaps the lions' den that is Bloomington was not that easy to fill in the same way that Notre Dame struggled before hiring Weiss. Not much more money that top coaches already make and the shadow of Knight looming constantly.

GrapevineSooner
5/26/2006, 11:18 AM
I wonder how the NCAA broke the news to him.

Did they call him 20 times before getting a hold of him?

Dio
5/26/2006, 01:25 PM
The best part- every national sports update I heard on the radio said "Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson", not "former Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson". IU might have been doing us a bigger favor than we originally thought.

william_brasky
5/26/2006, 01:51 PM
My prediction is that he'll be retained at IU, "overachieve" and win about 20 games this next year, bring in a couple of JUCOs and a couple "under the radar" high school recruits for next year's recruiting class, etc.

Mjcpr
5/26/2006, 02:03 PM
My prediction is that he'll be retained at IU, "overachieve" and win about 20 games this next year, bring in a couple of JUCOs and a couple "under the radar" high school recruits for next year's recruiting class, etc.

Be careful out there on that limb, Wil.

william_brasky
5/26/2006, 03:06 PM
Be careful out there on that limb, Wil.

I like to live dangerously.

Socrefbek
5/28/2006, 05:57 PM
Boomer Sooner!

Fixed.