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Sampson Does it Again!!!!

TNel, where is Broussard today? I have been unable to locate any info about him and where he went, but the lust for talent off someone else's roster was, in the end, the undoing of both Broussard and McKay.
They just had to have every discontented player with talent, and after Granger supplied some modest success they went after Johnson and Giddens, who caused so much team chaos, suspensions, and disruption, that it led to lousy team performance and ultimately the firing of the staff.



Now even more IU legends are calling to fire Sampson
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071015/SPORTS0601/310150001/1069/SPORTS0601
 
Broussard

Broussard

No idea where Broussard is today. Say what you will about Coach Mo, but he ran a clean program. Too bad Duane didn't take notes.
 
Duane was a nice and a very ethical guy when I knew him at Bradley. I think he just got caught up in the Granger thing and thought he could pull off the transfer to New Mexico and earn a bunch of Brownie points with coach McKay that might further his career. But he got caught beaking the rules. I still don't think he believes he did anything wrong. He only violated the letter of the rule, not the spirit of the rule. :)
 
A couple more articles--

How the violations were found-- the original check by the compliance officer missed them, but a recheck by an intern working in the compliance office uncovered them last July. The calls in question occurred as far back as January. It's take them 4 more months to have an outside review and confirm the violations occurred!--
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.d...015/SPORTS0601/310150001/-1/topstoriesrecache

The Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy's take on this--
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=290191
 
Da Coach said:
The Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy's take on this--
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=290191
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DeCourcy is calling for the NCAA to impose a post season ban....and he lists all the fine recruits that Indiana got while committing those violations, and wonders whether those infractions actually gave IU an advantage, and even specultaes
"maybe the public-relations price Indiana basketball pays yet again is worth the cost."
since they got such good players.

Here are the players he names....Eric Gordon, wing Jamarcus Ellis, guard Jordan Crawford, small forward Devin Ebanks..." but he doesn't mention Matt Roth at all, as if he just doesn't deserve to be named among those others. NO RESPECT!!


Matt, are you listening? Get out now!! Kelvin Will Not last the season and will be canned!



PS-- here are a couple flashback threads......

a little over a year ago.....Sampson remprimanded by his own fellow coaches, and one of them predicts...
"the group does not think NCAA sanctions are sufficient" and that they won't deter Kelvin from breaking the rules further!!!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1229

And almost exactly this time of year three years ago, the Indiana Coach (Mike Davis) landed an awesome
recruiting class, labelled as the best in the NATION.....Now he is gone and Sampson is there,
could this be prophetic, and in 3 more years we will be looking back wondering how Sampson could fail with such fine players?
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1815
 
But he was denied the information so that he could have made such a choice.
Personally, if it were me, I'd feel a little duped, and thankful I had not yet signed anything.
Even though the school knew of the violations last summer, they were not going to let it be known until after they got the verbals they wanted.
 
B10 coaches take the high road at the B10 media day.

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Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, a good friend of Sampson, had this to say about the violations:

???Not to make fun of anything, but to follow all the rules right now you almost need a personal secretary riding around with you. I am good friends with Kelvin. I don??™t know all of the situation so I??™m not going to be judge and jury. But from what I??™ve heard, from what I??™ve read, it seems like pretty tough punishments when I??™ve seen other schools maybe not punished as strongly for things I think are a lot worse. It??™s hard. He??™ll survive it. I feel bad for him, I feel bad for our league a little bit because you don??™t want those kinds of negative things. But I don??™t judge people on some of those NCAA rules that are difficult to follow, to interpret and to deal with in this never-ending struggle to recruit.???
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Purdue coach Matt Painter didn??™t want to pass judgment on Sampson??™s violations, but had this to say:

???I think you can make honest mistakes. There can be an exception here and there where you can make an honest mistake. I think you have to have some wiggle room in our business to make an honest mistake because that??™s what everybody does, as long as the intent is to go by the rule and not circumvent the rule. There are some guys who make honest mistakes and we can??™t sit there and crucify them for trying to do what??™s right and slipping up a little bit.???
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Illinois coach Bruce Weber on Sampson??™s violations:

???We hope that anybody in our business would try to adhere to the rules. I know I??™m not perfect, our staff isn??™t perfect. You??™re going to make mistakes, but you hope guys make a conscious effort to stay within the limitations that are put on you because that??™s why they??™re there, to help us. It??™s why you have stoplights, it??™s why you have speed limits ??“ for the betterment of everybody. I hope for everybody??™s sake everybody tries to do the right thing.???
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Thanks for those Bert.

All those comments want to make me puke... but it is the current times we live in... we live in a society where nobody has to take responsibility for anything...

Thankyou America!

We live in the best country where we don't have to remember doing anything and won't have to take responsibility for our actions!
 
I'm not sure what else they could say. Weber's comments aren't really sympathetic or dismissing. And I guess Izzo drew the short straw and had to play the friend card. Also note the number of times Painter uses the word 'honest' in a single paragraph. That's pretty funny. I get it...
 
For the most part,conference bretheren arent going to call each other out publicly... Privately and on the recruiting trail, it's a different matter....
 
I have heard that Kelvin Sampson flew into Peoria over the past weekend. Probably a recruiting visit. Maybe visiting Matt Roth, or another recruit?

He was overheard saying the problem was with the compliance office at IU. They were at fault for not catching this earlier.
 
The head coach is responsible for his program so he can try to make it look like someone elses fault all he wants but the U. Of Indiana is in violation and did have an unfair advantage recruiting by breaking the rules and should be penalized asa this coach is nothing but a cheat.
 
It didn't work for Quin Snyder, who fired assistants to deflect blame and save his job,
but we all saw right through it and he was canned anyway.
 
The plot thickens:

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071222/SPORTS0601/712220433

"Indiana University basketball player DeAndre Thomas and the mother of star recruit Devin Ebanks told investigators Kelvin Sampson participated in three-way phone calls that violated previously imposed NCAA sanctions against the IU basketball coach.
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When IU released a report Oct. 30 detailing the violations, numerous names were redacted. The Star made another public records request, asking specifically that it be redacted only to the extent required by law."
 
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