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In case anyone is interested, in a premium article on the Indiana Rivals site, they have the text of a teleconference yesterday with certain select reporters. The article is very long and I have excerpted the salient points.
This teleconference was not widely reported and was apparently done to spin the facts and make things look better than they actually are for IU's sake, but........
You decide for yourself........(my opinion/comments are in red, everything else is from the teleconference)
Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan:
"assistant coach Rob Senderoff has voluntarily resigned from the university effective immediately. I have no additional information that I will share in regards to Rob's voluntary resignation."
This is all they said about this and nobody offered any explanation whatsoever!
Further comments from Greenspan
"The second release provides some context to the reports filed with the NCAA. I want to provide some clarity to these reports...
I've asked Dr. Grace Calhoun, who is our senior women's administrator and our associate athletic director for academics and compliance, to join us on the call, as well as Robin Green Harris, who is an attorney and the co-chair of the Ice Miller collegiate sports practice....(the private firm that helped investigate IU)"
Dr. Grace Calhoun:
"There were 126 phone calls in question.... The 126 phone calls encompasses 10-18 three-way calls and 111 other calls, 109 of which created problems with the sanctions and 32 of which were NCAA violations
Now the 10-11 calls have balooned to 40-50, then to about 100, now to 126!!! Most are violations of the sanctions placed on Kelvin Sampson and 32 are violations of NCAA rules that everyone has to follow ALL THE TIME!!
Dr. Grace Calhoun:
"....the other two reports are also secondary infractions reports. One details an informational meeting between a prospect's mother at an AAU tournament, and the second details a scholarship offer made impermissibly in conjunction with an institutional camp."
So--- in addition to the phone calls, there were even MORE illegal and improper things going on such as recruiting rules violations and improper face-to-face contact with recruit?? Hmmm... seems like every day something new showing up....
One reporter then asked why Kelvin Sampson was not made available to interview...
Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan:
"... The issue of those NCAA violations does not in any way implicate or have any bearing on Coach Sampson in that he is not named in any of those NCAA violations.
.........interesting....so the folks at IU are saying that they believe Sampson has NOT yet been implicated as doing anything wrong???
Then another reporter asks why there is a discrepancy in the numbers, since it had previously been stated there were at least 27 3-way calls...
Ice Miller attorney Robin Green Harris:
"There were 27 total three-way calls ...The numbers do get a little bit complicated...
The reason it is 10-18 is that there were 10-12 numbers that we do know are recruiting numbers. It is 10-12 because there were two callbacks, two calls that were dropped, so it just depends if you want to count each separate call ??” then it's 12 ??” or if you want to call the callback as one call, then you have 10. The other six calls, which get you to 18, were actually incoming calls...."
.....man...is this a whole bunch of doublespeak or what....?
This lady is really confusing and appears to the reporters asking questions to be contradicting herself frequently!!
Then Greenspan cuts off certain questions saying:
"I think the report speaks for itself....
there was little or no recruiting advantage ...
We are prepared as a university and as a staff now to move forward as I assume and hope for Coach Senderoff....."
....in other words....we think this whole thing is overblown and is no big deal...
The Greenspan says coach Rob Senderoff has signed an agreement as part of his dismissal package and is not likely to be talking to the press.
Then Greenspan also admits that the investigative firm of "Ice Miller" has also been retained as the law firm representing Indiana University as their "outside counsel" in the action between IU and NCAA.
Isn't this a little conflict of interests?? The very people that they say are doing an impartial investigation are on the IU payroll as their lawyers and advocates??
Then the final statement by
Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan in response to this question
"How do respond to fans or those now with the perspective that you guys hired the wrong coach?"
Answer--"
I can tell you in 28 years I have never had a fan not criticize anybody I hire. Part of that comes with the territory and why I guess they pay me. I think in terms of Coach Sampson, and I have said this before, I think I am profoundly disappointed in the fact that we are dealing with this and I would be even more disappointed if I felt he didn't share that sentiment with me. ...
I feel very strongly that Coach Sampson has the ability and desire to meet the goals we have as our coach both in this area of compliance, in terms of our academic progress, in terms of our fans high expectations for our competitiveness and I think we will get there under his direction and his leadership."
In other words....Sampson is our guy, and I am sticking with him regardless of how crooked the guy is!!
This teleconference was not widely reported and was apparently done to spin the facts and make things look better than they actually are for IU's sake, but........
You decide for yourself........(my opinion/comments are in red, everything else is from the teleconference)
Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan:
"assistant coach Rob Senderoff has voluntarily resigned from the university effective immediately. I have no additional information that I will share in regards to Rob's voluntary resignation."
This is all they said about this and nobody offered any explanation whatsoever!
Further comments from Greenspan
"The second release provides some context to the reports filed with the NCAA. I want to provide some clarity to these reports...
I've asked Dr. Grace Calhoun, who is our senior women's administrator and our associate athletic director for academics and compliance, to join us on the call, as well as Robin Green Harris, who is an attorney and the co-chair of the Ice Miller collegiate sports practice....(the private firm that helped investigate IU)"
Dr. Grace Calhoun:
"There were 126 phone calls in question.... The 126 phone calls encompasses 10-18 three-way calls and 111 other calls, 109 of which created problems with the sanctions and 32 of which were NCAA violations
Now the 10-11 calls have balooned to 40-50, then to about 100, now to 126!!! Most are violations of the sanctions placed on Kelvin Sampson and 32 are violations of NCAA rules that everyone has to follow ALL THE TIME!!
Dr. Grace Calhoun:
"....the other two reports are also secondary infractions reports. One details an informational meeting between a prospect's mother at an AAU tournament, and the second details a scholarship offer made impermissibly in conjunction with an institutional camp."
So--- in addition to the phone calls, there were even MORE illegal and improper things going on such as recruiting rules violations and improper face-to-face contact with recruit?? Hmmm... seems like every day something new showing up....
One reporter then asked why Kelvin Sampson was not made available to interview...
Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan:
"... The issue of those NCAA violations does not in any way implicate or have any bearing on Coach Sampson in that he is not named in any of those NCAA violations.
.........interesting....so the folks at IU are saying that they believe Sampson has NOT yet been implicated as doing anything wrong???
Then another reporter asks why there is a discrepancy in the numbers, since it had previously been stated there were at least 27 3-way calls...
Ice Miller attorney Robin Green Harris:
"There were 27 total three-way calls ...The numbers do get a little bit complicated...
The reason it is 10-18 is that there were 10-12 numbers that we do know are recruiting numbers. It is 10-12 because there were two callbacks, two calls that were dropped, so it just depends if you want to count each separate call ??” then it's 12 ??” or if you want to call the callback as one call, then you have 10. The other six calls, which get you to 18, were actually incoming calls...."
.....man...is this a whole bunch of doublespeak or what....?
This lady is really confusing and appears to the reporters asking questions to be contradicting herself frequently!!
Then Greenspan cuts off certain questions saying:
"I think the report speaks for itself....
there was little or no recruiting advantage ...
We are prepared as a university and as a staff now to move forward as I assume and hope for Coach Senderoff....."
....in other words....we think this whole thing is overblown and is no big deal...
The Greenspan says coach Rob Senderoff has signed an agreement as part of his dismissal package and is not likely to be talking to the press.
Then Greenspan also admits that the investigative firm of "Ice Miller" has also been retained as the law firm representing Indiana University as their "outside counsel" in the action between IU and NCAA.
Isn't this a little conflict of interests?? The very people that they say are doing an impartial investigation are on the IU payroll as their lawyers and advocates??
Then the final statement by
Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan in response to this question
"How do respond to fans or those now with the perspective that you guys hired the wrong coach?"
Answer--"
I can tell you in 28 years I have never had a fan not criticize anybody I hire. Part of that comes with the territory and why I guess they pay me. I think in terms of Coach Sampson, and I have said this before, I think I am profoundly disappointed in the fact that we are dealing with this and I would be even more disappointed if I felt he didn't share that sentiment with me. ...
I feel very strongly that Coach Sampson has the ability and desire to meet the goals we have as our coach both in this area of compliance, in terms of our academic progress, in terms of our fans high expectations for our competitiveness and I think we will get there under his direction and his leadership."
In other words....Sampson is our guy, and I am sticking with him regardless of how crooked the guy is!!
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