Oklahoma-Sampson

It was heard by this driver on his commute home that there's a debate going on about what Indiana University (IU) should do with it's basketball coach. The basketball coach they hired, Kelvin Sampson, after not giving the man who replaced legendary coach Bobby Knight (Mike Davis) his due respect. So, Davis did what he should have done, and left, because they treated him like shit when he did good things with that team.

Sampson, who previously coached the Oklahoma University (OU) program, which had been an up and coming program until it was blasted with massive recruiting violations by the NCAA. Sampson and his assistant under his direction, while at OU, made massive amounts of calls to high school players to recruit them to the OU program. These calls were not only vastly over the limit of the number of calls he was allowed to make according to NCAA rules, but he also called players he wasn't even allowed to call by those very same rules. So, Sampson did what any smart college coach does when their program is bitch-slapped by the NCAA for recruiting violations, they skip town to a new college and start fresh. For some reason, the NCAA sanctions the schools by not allowing them to play in the post-season and by taking away valuable scholarships, but if the coach leaves the school...the coach gets off scott-free with the school holding the steaming bag of shit.

So, Sampson leaves OU to escape his own blatant recruiting violations and heads to IU. But, IU, being the responsible school that it is, takes on part of the sanctions imposed by the NCAA on OU, to smack Sampson on the hand a bit. Okay, fine.

Now, Sampson is at IU recruiting, when IU apparently catches wind that Sampson is again making calls that blatantly violate NCAA rules, and they question him about it. Sampson lies through his teeth to the universities investigators, and then to NCAA investigators (who have by now caught the same wind from their feelers that Sampson and his assistants are pulling the same shit).

All this comes to a head as someone breaks the story (more like someone at IU told the AP in a press release...again IU trying to be responsible here) that Sampson is formally being investigated and has lied to the investigators on both ends.

How, I ask you dear reader, is there any debate to be had???!!!!

This is, to paraphrase that nitwit George Tenet, "A Slam Dunk." This is as one of my favorite sports columnists, and currently Sunday Night Football commentators, says, "A gots to go situation!!!" (Kudos: Tony Kornheiser)

Sampson should be fired immediately and he should be excommunicated from coaching ANY collegiate program for a fucking decade. And as a fave comedian would say, "THAT'S THE END OF THE FUCKING ARGUMENT!!!" (Kudos: Lewis Black)