CBB coaches say who they want their son to play for- top 10

[SaveOD238]

You'd never get college coaches to go on record with this, but who do you think they'd say if the question asked which coach you DONT want your son to play for?

[TedBaxter]

He called recruits too much. Oh no!

He recruited a player who backed out of a verbal commitment elsewhere. The horror!

Do you know how laughable those look 20+ years later?

Prior to the findings by the NCAA, Kelvin Sampson was the President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), an organization that supports basketball coaches across the country. During his tenure the Ethics Committee of the NABC was formed to address the many problems with violations that college basketball faced going into the 2003 season. That very same Ethics Committee would later reprimand Kelvin Sampson as a result of the NCAA findings, placing him on probation for three years, during which time he would not be eligible to serve in any official capacity for the NABC, be considered for Coach of the Year honors, or receive Final Four ticket privileges.[27]

As coach at Indiana in October 2007, Sampson again came under scrutiny for making impermissible phone calls. Despite being restricted from making any outbound recruiting phone calls, Sampson participated in approximately 10 conference calls with recruits that violate the terms of the sanctions levied against him by the NCAA. IU assistant Rob Senderoff (who later resigned) also made some 35 impermissible phone calls to recruits from his home. On February 8, 2008, the NCAA informed Indiana that Sampson had committed five "major" rules violations. The NCAA alleged that Sampson knowingly violated telephone recruiting restrictions imposed on him. More seriously, the NCAA also alleged that Sampson lied to IU and NCAA officials regarding his involvement in the impermissible calls.[28]

Whether anyone thinks this is a big deal or not now, he was head of the NABC when they formed the Ethics Committee and he was breaking the rules. That still hangs over him in other coaches eyes just like it did with Bruce Pearl.   

[The Sultan]

Cool.

[Billy Hoyle]

I'm certain those are the only two college basketball players who were smoking marijuana.

I don't care about athletics smoking weed (and it was those two are the only ones who didn't have a positive test). It was the ordering of the IU training room to ignore and bury the positive tests, something that Syracuse got nailed for. Again, character issues:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1091853-syracuse-basketball-report-claims-school-violated-internal-drug-policy#:~:text=Syracuse%20Basketball:%20Report%20Claims%20School%20Violated%20Internal%20Drug%20Policy,-Adam%20WellsJun&text=Syracuse%20basketball%20again%20finds%20itself,t%20offering%20up%20any%20information.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

that he would instruct high school kids to lie to cover up what he told them was impermissible conduct he was engaged in shows his character and the kind of lessons he'll teach kids. Unfortunately for him, one of the recruits was willing to tell the truth and out him.

Sampson also turned a blind eye to rampant drug use and multiple failed drug tests among his players at IU (all but two had positive tests - DJ White and Eric Gordon). And yet Izzo yelling at his players while never committing a Level I or II violation is somehow worse than that.

That's not why people don't like Izzo

[MUDPT]

I do know of recruits who were contacted by Sampson that were worried that they wouldn't be eligible at their university because they were on the NCAA's list. Recruits may not care now, but they did 20 years ago.

[Shaka Shart]

It would have been inconvenient to Izzo's teams' successes to suspend his staff and players. I get it.

[wadesworld]

So Sampson texted players and his players were smoking weed and he lied about these things tw decades ago.  Nowadays, players can legally smoke weed pretty in most states, and you can now give kids millions of dollars to come play for your team.  If I had a son who was a 5 star basketball recruit, I'm not all that worried that Kelvin Sampson might text my son at the wrong time.  These things aren't important anymore.

[Jay Bee]

So Sampson texted players and his players were smoking weed and he lied about these things tw decades ago.  Nowadays, players can legally smoke weed pretty in most states, and you can now give kids millions of dollars to come play for your team.  If I had a son who was a 5 star basketball recruit, I'm not all that worried that Kelvin Sampson might text my son at the wrong time.  These things aren't important anymore.

I'd be concerned he will blatantly disregard current rules and get his program into trouble. He's done it before.

[Uncle Rico]

I'd be concerned he will blatantly disregard current rules and get his program into trouble. He's done it before.

lol

[wadesworld]

I'd be concerned he will blatantly disregard current rules and get his program into trouble. He's done it before.

Oh no.  He texted players.  It was also 20 years ago.

[Jay Bee]

Reeko has Bernie Fine #1 on their list

[Uncle Rico]

Reeko has Bernie Fine #1 on their list

Bernie definitely seems like he's much more your type.

Anyway, I'm sure the Houston basketball program and its fans are very nervous about Kelvin Sampson at the moment.  Doubt they've enjoyed the past decade at all, worrying all the time about what he did 20 years ago instead.

Have to think it's severely limited him in recruiting, too.  How he's put rosters together is mind-boggling.

Wonder what his tax situation is.

[100AcreNation]

I'd be concerned he will blatantly disregard current rules and get his program into trouble. He's done it before.

[Shaka Shart]

Sloppy steaks at Five O'Clock