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Surprising absolutely no one, Indiana was notified of five major violations being brought against Kelvin Sampson and the Indiana Hoosiers basketball program. As you might have guessed, they have to do with illegal phone calls and subsequent lies within the University.
The Indianapolis Star lists these five sanctions well, and also provides the actual "notice of allegations." Here's the first three:
1. That (Kelvin) Sampson, (assistant coach Jeff) Meyer and (former assistant Rob) Senderoff failed to comply with sanctions imposed on Sampson for impermissible recruiting calls he made while he was a coach at Oklahoma. Those sanctions followed Sampson to IU when he came here in May of 2006. Sampson and Senderoff are alleged to have jointly participated in telephone calls at a time when Sampson was prohibited from being present or taking part when staff members made recruiting calls. Senderoff and Meyer are alleged to have made about 100 calls that exceeded the sanction limits. Senderoff resigned his position Oct. 30.If these allegations are true, and based on all the smoke that has trailed Sampson everywhere he has been, Indiana should fire Kelvin Sampson on the spot if they want to pretend to be a top notch basketball program with any ethics.
2. That Senderoff and Meyer placed "at least 25 telephone calls" to nine potential recruits that exceeded NCAA limits even if no sanctions had been in place.
3. That Sampson "acted contrary to the NCAA principles of ethical conduct when he knowingly violated recruiting restrictions imposed by the NCAA Committee on Infractions," and that he "failed to deport himself in accordance with the generally recognized high standard of honesty normally associated with the conduct and administration of intercollegiate athletics by providing the institution and the NCAA enforcement staff false or misleading information," and that he "failed to promote an atmosphere for compliance within the men's basketball program and failed to monitor the activities regarding compliance of one or more of his assistant coaches."
Indiana president Myles Brand terminated Bobby Knight's contract based on disagreeing with his personal code of conduct. It was fair, but Knight never violated any laws or NCAA rules. He was a disciplinarian with a temper and he won a lot of basketball games. He was not a cheater.
Kelvin Sampson is a liar, a cheater, and a poor representation of what Indiana's basketball program stands for. If IU doesn't fire Sampson as abruptly as they fired Knight, they're proving winning games by cutting corners is more important than a clean program with a polarizing disciplinarian at the helm
The IU Basketball program, ethically, has been spotless. Bob "The General" Knight never crossed any ethical line (now when it comes to fast moving chairs, whips, choke holds...that's another story). I thought they were crazy when they hired Kelvin!!! Honestly, I was surprisingly impressed with IU this year, at least when they were 20-3. Now I know we have a coach that wins "at all costs." Those 20 wins don't mean a thing if your credibility is gone. 
I reminisce about the days of Bobby Knight...coaching genius, discipline, respect, generosity and...well...temper :) 
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