Sampson OUT?

Looks like another supposedly "CHEAT" might be gone!!!
See ya!

Sampson reportedly out at IU
Reports say university ousts embattled basketball coach.

Associated Press Report

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) "? Indiana University officials met behind closed doors today to consider the future of embattled basketball coach Kelvin Sampson.
Indianapolis TV station WTHR and FoxSports.com both reported that Sampson had coached his last game at Indiana and that assistant coach Dan Dakich will take over as interim for the rest of the season.
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 had set a Friday deadline for a report and recommendation on action.
University 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 did not have 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.

Good, Sampson is a joke.

with Sampson out at IU, who sees Bobby Knight coming back

no way he goes back

I doubt he's back in Bloomington either. It would be fun, but doubtful.

Does IU go for a big name, or a Knight prodigy that has experience at IU? Some talk of them being interested in Pearl at UT.

Chris Lowery would be a good choice if they're gonna steal a mid-major

is lowery the guy at winthrop?

no he is at Southern Illinois...huge defensive guy, it would get IU back to their roots and he pulled in a 4-star recruit to SIU so he can recruit

before I forget, another strong candidate should be Scott Drew from Baylor (besides the very cool name)...when he took over at Baylor the program had serious sanctions put on it from the murder and cover-up that happened in the previous years, one of the sanctions was that Baylor could not play any games out of conference, and the next year he has had Baylor in the top 25 and near the top of the Big 12...his father, Homer Drew, is the coach at Valparaiso and his younger brother, Bryce Drew, is the one who hit the shot in the NCAA tourney at the buzzer to beat Ole Miss

Wouldn't it be a hoot if Coach Knight was the one who put up the anonymous 550K towards the buyout?