Indiana, Indiana AD resigns

[Pakuni]

Insert Jack Harbaugh comment here.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3462240

[spiral97]

Why does TC keep running off his ACD's??? 

[Warrior Forever]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan will resign at the end of December amid new NCAA allegations that the school failed to monitor the men's basketball team.

The NCAA said former basketball coach Kelvin Sampson committed five major recruiting violations during his 11/2 years at the school.

Indiana is awaiting a decision on penalties from the NCAA. The infractions committee listened to the university's defense on June 13-14.

Greenspan said it is important for someone else to lead the department, and the school scheduled an afternoon news conference on campus to discuss his decision.

"I am aware that I have become the focus of criticism, which will continue to distract Indiana University from its core educational mission," Greenspan said in a statement released by the school. "Consequently, I believe a new person will be in a stronger position to lead IU athletics moving forward and it is in IU's best interests for me to stand down."

[AlumKCof93]

What took so long?  Who is the last GM to have a worse tenure than this guy?

[AlumKCof93]

it is in IU's best interests for me to stand down."

Duh

[Coach Norman Dale]

Be careful what you wish for????  Greenspan's resignation/removal is EXACTLY what most Indiana supporters have been waiting for.  It is amazing that all of the chaos could occur on his watch and it take until now for him to be accountable. 

[77ncaachamps]

Wonderful news!

This should set back TC's program...oh...long enough until he starts to flirt with the MSU job! 

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Indiana faces another NCAA charge, uncertain future
By Dana O'Neil
ESPN.com

Officials from Indiana University were in Salt Lake City the first time Kelvin Sampson met with NCAA officials.

They knew how egregious the NCAA considered Sampson's disregard of rules when he coached at Oklahoma -- in its report, the Committee on Infractions called Sampson's allegations "deliberate non-compliance, rationalizing the violations as prioritizing rules," -- and knew that they were expected to make sure Sampson did nothing wrong again.

On Thursday the NCAA decided IU's inability to keep Sampson's hand out of the cookie jar was every bit as offensive as the coach's lack of self control. After a hearing earlier this month, the Committee on Infractions notified Indiana that the school was also being charged with "failure to monitor."

While not as harsh as a lack of institutional control, the allegation could mean stiff penalties including additional scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions, a source familiar with NCAA rules said.

Even while the Sampson scandal took yet another scalp, that of athletic director Rick Greenspan who announced his resignation Thursday, angry and defiant IU officials vowed to fight the charges.

"Without question I am extremely disappointed in the new charges," Greenspan said in a statement. "I disagree with these charges, particularly since the NCAA Enforcement staff did not reach this same conclusion after their original, in-depth investigation. Nevertheless, the new charges must and will be answered."

A source told ESPN.com that the university had ample opportunity to take corrective actions against its coaches and did not. Also despite additional restrictions because of Sampson's violations at Oklahoma, the coaches were not watched appropriately.

Upon hiring Sampson, Indiana absorbed the penalties the coach had received at Oklahoma, including travel restrictions and phone calls to recruits. Because Sampson was not allowed to call recruits, the coaching staff also was prohibited from initiating three-way phone calls that involved Sampson.

In October an investigation at Indiana revealed that Sampson and his staff made 100 impermissible calls, including 10 three-way calls, in direct violation of the NCAA's punishment.

Yet the source said cellphone bills that went directly to the university's compliance offices were clearly marked 3W to indicate three-way calls and no one said anything to the coaching staff.

Also the source said an e-mail exchange between Greenspan and a member of his compliance staff said that "everything is great," with the basketball staff even though the subsequent investigation revealed rules were being broken at that time.

Charges against a university are nothing new when Sampson is involved. Before it could close the door on the 577 impermissible calls Sampson made, Oklahoma also was hit with failure to monitor. In its findings against the school, the NCAA Committee on Infractions said in part, "the coaches were taken at their word when even a cursory review of men's basketball office phones, cellphones and calling cards would have revealed myriad impermissible calls."

For Indiana, the Sampson saga has been a protracted program killer. It has cost Sampson, Greenspan and former assistants Rob Senderoff and Jeff Meyer their jobs; torpedoed a top-10 program into a NCAA tournament first-round crash and burn, and left new coach Tom Crean with a disaster to clean up.

Since taking over in Bloomington in April, Crean has dismissed two players (Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis); three others chose to leave and one heralded recruit, Devin Ebanks, asked to be released from his letter of intent.

When the Hoosiers take the floor in November, Crean will have one returning scholarship player -- seldom-used senior Kyle Taber -- and an uncertain future for his program.

The university's likely decision to appeal this charge means the committee will push back its decision on the original charges as well.

"It is extremely regrettable that the actions of a few have brought so much disappointment to so many,"' Greenspan said at his news conference Thursday.

Greenspan will resign, effective in December, and Indiana will have to find itself an athletic director to lead it out of this quagmire. The university is in the unenviable position of looking for a new leader to oversee a mess while Notre Dame also is searching for a new AD.

Dana O'Neil covers college basketball for ESPN.com and can be reached at espnoneil@live.com.




http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3462716

[lurch91]

It's not as common in the College ranks as in Pro sports, but how long will the new AD keep TC around?  That has to be of some concern to TC.

[mug644]

"Indiana University announced the resignation Thursday of athletic director Rick Greenspan effective in December." http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3462240

I know we don't need another thread dealing with IU, but I just can't understand how someone can essentially be resigning under the gun but won't leave his post for 6 months. How can that be? It doesn't really seem to me that he's truly being held accountable for, and paying for his poor decisions since taking on Sampson.

Any insights?

[muwarrior87]

this has been posted on the superbar and elsewhere as well. 3rd times enough.

[mug644]

I agree that the topic has been addressed (and I'm glad my message was moved into the existing thread), but I remain curious if anyone has any insights into the question I asked, as I haven't seen that discussed. So, again, how could it be that his resignation doesn't happen until December?

[NavinRJohnson]

"Its Indiana. Its Indiana."

     -- Steve Cottingham (aka Toby)

[Coach Norman Dale]

I agree that the topic has been addressed (and I'm glad my message was moved into the existing thread), but I remain curious if anyone has any insights into the question I asked, as I haven't seen that discussed. So, again, how could it be that his resignation doesn't happen until December?

I imagine by giving him some leeway on leaving, they do not have to fire him and add the expense of a buyout to the already strapped athletic department budget.

[ChicosBailBonds]

It's not as common in the College ranks as in Pro sports, but how long will the new AD keep TC around?  That has to be of some concern to TC.

Nah.  IU is in desperate straits financially and they aren't going to let Crean go anytime in the next 5 years minimum.