Thursday, February 14, 2008

Indiana Is Apparently Wild-Man Country

So the University of Indiana is facing 5 major NCAA violations regarding their men's basketball program. This is the same program that hired Kelvin Sampson even though he was facing charges of misconduct from the NCAA because of his previous job at Oklahoma.

Sampson and his staff were restricted from making phone calls past a certain number because of violations of the phone call rules when they were at OU. To clarify, they weren't allowed to do at IU what they got in trouble for at OU. And they did it anyway.

Duuh.

Did that braniac really think he wasn't going to get caught? He did the exact same thing after he got in trouble for it! You'd at least think he'd be original enough to break another NCAA rule, not the same damn one. And while I might think that the phone call rules are dumb, the NCAA is the governing body of the sport, and Kelvin (PS: nice name spelling) has to follow them.

As if life wasn't already good enough for the AD at Indiana, 3 football players got arrested this past weekend. One was apparently passed out in a dorm stairwell and then fought the paramedics who put him in the ambulance. The other two are studs: one had 268 receiving yards and the other had 138 rushing yards. Total. All year. My guess? The school doesn't even remember that they play football and they'll all be manning the local Bloomington Stop-And-Shop before February ends.