Idiot of the Week

Today I could be that guy to write about how the Committee members on Capitol Hill bullied Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee but really had no idea what they were talking about. I was in awe on how the committee members were so clueless, just tell us honestly all of you were that to catch a liar and could really care less about everything else. That would have at least made sense in my eyes. But the Committee members came a close second to my idiot of the week and this week it's Kelvin Sampson. Sampson is facing 5 major NCAA violations, and the man was warned before being hired at Indiana to not bring in his recruiting habits from Oklahoma to our university. Now for these violations that Sampson is facing he could be jobless any day now, but for some reason I don't think he will, especially with what happened with Jim O'Brien at Ohio State who was fired before the NCAA ruled on the case and O'Brien adventually sued State U. and Indiana is being very careful with Sampson for this reason. Sampson's allegations are all stemming from a phone call scandal that occured while Sampson was under recruiting restrictions. The Athletic Director at Indiana, Rick Greenspan, who we all know is a follow and cooperate kind of guy promised the NCAA his attentiveness. It seems to me that Sampson is just another one of those coaches that tries to stretch the recruiting rules and get the guys he wants to come to his school. I agree some of the rules that were broken are ridiculous. Too much text messaging, over the phone call limit, but rules are rules coach and every coach must abide by them. It is so bad for Sampson right now that during the afternoon yesterday before they lost at home to Wisconsin, discussion was going on about whether Sampson would even coach the game. One of the options that keeps popping up in Indiana is to suspend the coach form coaching games until they can figure things out without firing him and have it backfire like O'Brien. This storied program has a great chance of facing a postseason ban for the heat that Sampson put on them. The ban will not happen this year, fortunately for the #12 ranked Hoosiers. Now I ask you...Were Bobby Knight's actions as bad as this? Now look where this program is...Knight would never let this happen on his watch, never!