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IU lawyers' issued their report today...looks ugly

1. Sampson lied about not knowing they were 3-way calls and he was allowed ZERO 3-way calls under his probation, which was expressly stated when IU asked for a clarification.

--the law firm was able to contact 3 of the 6 recruits involved in the 3-way calls. One didn't recall and the other two definitely said it was Senderoff and Sampson participating in the call at the same time

2. Calls were coming from multiple assistant homes even though that was forbidden and coaches' gave signed statements every month that they were not calling from home.

--It was more than senderoff, meyer got tagged as well. It is more than just the one fallguy that IU is trying to spin it off as.

3. Many calls violated NCAA rules and not only the probation.

This is more than just not understanding the probation. The rules are pretty easy to follow. 2 calls per week to recruits during their senior year in allowed periods.

4. 3-way calls were initiated by IU staff

Sampson earlier claimed they all came from recruits...not true. Sampson claims that he has 'spotty' coverage in Bloomington and would lose calls. Since he couldn't initiate calls, he'd either text message the recruit to call him back (makes sense) or call his assitant and have the assistant call the recruit and tell the recruit to call Sampson (makes no sense).

5. The weekly required meetings on compliance turned into a joke.

Sampson only attended 7 of 53 meetings. Senderoff only attended 8 of the meetings. It ended up the director of basketball operations and compliance officer meeting together over and over instead of a full coaching body priority.

6. The weekly/monthly compliance checks did not catch the violations.

It took a summer intern to stumble across them. IU did not have the internal processes in place to catch the situation and stop it early on after being mandated to put such a system in place for Sampson. This almost went unnoticed altogether.




All in all, it seems like Sampson was not following the intent or spirit of his probation. He and 2 of his assistant coaches violated rules and repeatedly lied about the violations. The violations are the exact same ones that came up at Oklahoma. At the time, the NCAA infractions committee felt Sampson was coming up with crummy excuses and not taking the situation seriously. Here, it appears Sampson just thumbed his nose at these rules mattering. Hate to tell them that they matter alot and give a school a big unfair advantage.

This should get ugly.