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Kelvin Sampson resigned as Indiana coach last February and fled to the NBA amid a growing scandal over NCAA recruiting violations on his watch in Bloomington. The NCAA is making sure he can't return to college coaching for at least five years.
Sources told ESPN.com on Tuesday that Sampson, now an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks, will receive a five-year show-cause penalty -- one of the harshest the NCAA can levy against an individual.
The NCAA apparently is going to spare the Hoosiers program by not imposing a postseason ban. Sources also said that Indiana's self-imposed penalties are expected to be upheld. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Star is reporting that the Hoosiers will receive three years' probation.
The NCAA has scheduled a 4 p.m. ET conference call to discuss its findings in the case.
Indiana has been accused of four major NCAA violations that spawned from more than 100 impermissible phone calls to recruits by Sampson and his assistants during his first season as coach. Sampson resigned under pressure in February, short of completing his second season, after accepting a $750,000 buyout.
Sampson was still on probation as Indiana's coach for his involvement in similar offenses committed at Oklahoma. Colonial Athletic Association commissioner Tom Yeager, the chair of the NCAA infractions committee during Sampson's Oklahoma case, said a five-year show cause would not be out of line for a coach who had recently appeared in front of the committee.
The most serious charge against Sampson was that he provided false information to NCAA enforcement staff members and Indiana compliance officers, something the coach has denied. The investigation began in July 2007, a little more than a year after he was hired away from Oklahoma. Sampson was not allowed to send text messages or make calls when he first arrived at Indiana because of sanctions that were put on him at Oklahoma.
Sampson was once the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches at a time when the NABC held an ethics summit in Chicago following a string of high-profile NCAA cases.
Sampson was replaced at Indiana by interim coach Dan Dakich, then caught on with the NBA's Bucks, while assistant Ray McCallum got the head coaching job at Detroit, Jeff Meyer was hired as an assistant at Michigan, and Rob Senderoff joined Kent State's staff.
The domino effect included Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan, who is finishing out the calendar year after having been replaced by Indianapolis attorney Fred Glass.
Indiana officials appeared in front of the infractions committee in June and, in addition, fought a separate charge of a failure to monitor the basketball program. During the hearings, two former friends, Sampson and IU successor Tom Crean, formerly of Marquette, did not speak.
Indiana, which opened the season with home wins over Northwestern State and IUPUI, lost its opener in the Maui Invitational to Notre Dame on Monday. The Hoosiers play Saint Joseph's in the consolation round Tuesday.
Because the NCAA's membership is made up of schools, penalties imposed are directed toward the schools, not individuals. A show-cause penalty means a future employer needs to demonstrate to the COI that sufficient disciplinary action against the coach has been taken since he or she has found to violate NCAA rules.
If a future employer decided against imposing what the COI did, then that school would have to appear in front of the committee to explain its position. It is rare for a university not to impose sanctions against an individual.
There have been a number of coaches in a variety of sports who have received a show-cause punishment. Former Cal basketball coach Todd Bozeman was given an eight-year show cause, but it took him 10 years to finally get hired, at Morgan State. As Bozeman has said, getting a job after receiving such punishment is extremely difficult.
Meanwhile, the NCAA is also expected to hand down a three-year show cause to former Sampson assistant Senderoff. Kent State then would have to appear in front of the infractions committee to hear the sanctions leveled against Senderoff.
Meanwhile, Crean has had to contend with running a program that has just one returning scholarship player. When Indiana lost to Notre Dame by 38 points in the Maui Invitational on Monday, it was the Hoosiers' largest margin of defeat in nearly 11 years.
There are nine scholarship players on Indiana's roster after the program relinquished one scholarship as part of its self-imposed sanctions. Indiana took away two in a separate decision based on an expected poor Academic Progress Report.
Sources told ESPN.com on Tuesday that Sampson, now an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks, will receive a five-year show-cause penalty -- one of the harshest the NCAA can levy against an individual.
The NCAA apparently is going to spare the Hoosiers program by not imposing a postseason ban. Sources also said that Indiana's self-imposed penalties are expected to be upheld. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Star is reporting that the Hoosiers will receive three years' probation.
The NCAA has scheduled a 4 p.m. ET conference call to discuss its findings in the case.
Indiana has been accused of four major NCAA violations that spawned from more than 100 impermissible phone calls to recruits by Sampson and his assistants during his first season as coach. Sampson resigned under pressure in February, short of completing his second season, after accepting a $750,000 buyout.
Sampson was still on probation as Indiana's coach for his involvement in similar offenses committed at Oklahoma. Colonial Athletic Association commissioner Tom Yeager, the chair of the NCAA infractions committee during Sampson's Oklahoma case, said a five-year show cause would not be out of line for a coach who had recently appeared in front of the committee.
The most serious charge against Sampson was that he provided false information to NCAA enforcement staff members and Indiana compliance officers, something the coach has denied. The investigation began in July 2007, a little more than a year after he was hired away from Oklahoma. Sampson was not allowed to send text messages or make calls when he first arrived at Indiana because of sanctions that were put on him at Oklahoma.
Sampson was once the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches at a time when the NABC held an ethics summit in Chicago following a string of high-profile NCAA cases.
Sampson was replaced at Indiana by interim coach Dan Dakich, then caught on with the NBA's Bucks, while assistant Ray McCallum got the head coaching job at Detroit, Jeff Meyer was hired as an assistant at Michigan, and Rob Senderoff joined Kent State's staff.
The domino effect included Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan, who is finishing out the calendar year after having been replaced by Indianapolis attorney Fred Glass.
Indiana officials appeared in front of the infractions committee in June and, in addition, fought a separate charge of a failure to monitor the basketball program. During the hearings, two former friends, Sampson and IU successor Tom Crean, formerly of Marquette, did not speak.
Indiana, which opened the season with home wins over Northwestern State and IUPUI, lost its opener in the Maui Invitational to Notre Dame on Monday. The Hoosiers play Saint Joseph's in the consolation round Tuesday.
Because the NCAA's membership is made up of schools, penalties imposed are directed toward the schools, not individuals. A show-cause penalty means a future employer needs to demonstrate to the COI that sufficient disciplinary action against the coach has been taken since he or she has found to violate NCAA rules.
If a future employer decided against imposing what the COI did, then that school would have to appear in front of the committee to explain its position. It is rare for a university not to impose sanctions against an individual.
There have been a number of coaches in a variety of sports who have received a show-cause punishment. Former Cal basketball coach Todd Bozeman was given an eight-year show cause, but it took him 10 years to finally get hired, at Morgan State. As Bozeman has said, getting a job after receiving such punishment is extremely difficult.
Meanwhile, the NCAA is also expected to hand down a three-year show cause to former Sampson assistant Senderoff. Kent State then would have to appear in front of the infractions committee to hear the sanctions leveled against Senderoff.
Meanwhile, Crean has had to contend with running a program that has just one returning scholarship player. When Indiana lost to Notre Dame by 38 points in the Maui Invitational on Monday, it was the Hoosiers' largest margin of defeat in nearly 11 years.
There are nine scholarship players on Indiana's roster after the program relinquished one scholarship as part of its self-imposed sanctions. Indiana took away two in a separate decision based on an expected poor Academic Progress Report.
