Because Kelvin Sampson couldn’t stop using the phone at Oklahoma, the NCAA has banned Kelvin Sampson from taking any recruiting trips or making phone calls for one year. We’re not talking about a handful of impermissible calls. We’re talking 577 of them.
Even though Sampson won’t be taking any trips soon, he is lucky to have a job. There was a clause in his contract with IU that they could fire him without pay if the NCAA sanctions were tougher than the ones OU self imposed. Sampson says that he “learned an invaluable lesson” — just text message!
This is how the phone call from the NCAA to Kelvin Sampson informing him of the punishment should have gone.
Bye-bye, phone, for Kelvin.
No more phone for you. Your phone privileges are cut off.
I’m gonna write that down and put it on the fridge.
That’s the new rules in the house. I’m gonna take the old rules off
and put new rules up.You gonna listen to me when I tell you to do something.
We gonna put new rules up.
We gonna put rules up. Rules up.
Rules. Rules.One, ‘Kelvin cannot use the phone.’
Two, ‘Kelvin cannot… ‘Since you’re such a smart motherfucker, you can’t go outside anymore either.
Cannot go outside ever again.
Now, put the rules up, Kelvin. You abide by my rules and my regulations, goddamn it. And the rules say ‘No phone and no outside.’
And I don’t give a fuck if the motherfucking house is burning down. If I come home and a fireman putting the house out, I say: ‘How you find out the house was burning?’
‘We got a call from Kelvin’, I kick your motherfucking ass.
Links:
[USA Today]: NCAA imposes recruiting ban on Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson
[IndyStar.com]: Shame on IU’s AD, president
