Kelvin Sampson and College Recruiting…
I recently wrote something about Kelvin and his latest recruiting incident at Indiana and I went back and read it again and I don’t think I did it justice. This man needs to resign.
Kelvin Sampson can’t recruit another player at Indiana, especially a top recruit, without everyone thinking that he crossed a line to get there. The reputation is stained and is staining Indiana each day he has a job there. I don’t know Kelvin personally and I’m sure he’s a great guy. But he needs to do the right thing and step down and earn his way back. It’s a shame that Matt Doherty gets run out of North Carolina and has to start at the bottom again and this guy gets free pass after free pass.
Kelvin’s assistant recently resigned over the issue and isn’t that kind of backward. The guy trusted with the program has an assistant who recruited some of their best incoming players and did so by making some illegal phone calls. The head coach was in on at least 10 of those calls yet the assistant is forced to resign? Makes no sense to me.
As a sidenote, I’ve noticed lately that more and more high school kids are committing to schools earlier than ever before. Already we are seeing kids that have committed to colleges and these kids won’t graduate until 2009. Sophomores making life choices is an amazing thing. Don’t get me wrong, I believe that people with strong support systems can make this choice at a young age but it is going to lead more and more to football type recruiting. In football you have strong commits, soft commits until signing day approaches. In basketball there are 2 signing days each year and that helps but the earlier the commitment the better chance that the kid will rethink his decision. Illinois has 4 commitments already for players that are going to be there in 2009 and 2010. As an Illini fan, I’m very excited about that but it makes me a little leery at the same time. After all, I am a Cub fan and I see the worst in things sometimes.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
The 3 way phone calls arent against NCAA rules you GOOF and he didnt go over the RS house and make phone calls from home, you sound like a GOOFY illini fan I know AshfromNY, must be cause Douches come in pairs…………..
Get you facts straight before you spout off, you dont even KNOW the facts and write this, I guess its for the Illini fans and like the GOOF I mentioned above………….
AJS
November 15th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
The 3 way phone calls arent against NCAA rules you GOOF and he didnt go over the RS house and make phone calls from home, you sound like a GOOFY illini fan I know AshfromNY…………..
Get you facts straight before you spout off, you dont even KNOW the facts and write this, I guess its for the Illini fans and like the GOOF I mentioned above………….
AJS
November 15th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
You know Smiley you are right. Let me set some facts here. 1)Sampson was in trouble already for making illegal calls while the coach at Oklahoma.- that is a fact. 2) Sampson was banned from being involved in any 3 way calling for a certain time period at Indiana.-That is a fact.
How do those sound? If he didn’t do anything wrong he probably wouldn’t be in any trouble would he? Maybe the assistant wouldn’t have lost his job. Do you think the NCAA is just picking on him here?
Go back and read everything also, sure I’m an Illini fan but I’m a basketball fan first. Eric Gordon situation aside, Kelvin has some issues. Take off your red blinders here pal because this isn’t the first time.