Rick Greenspan probably brought this all on himself — when you hire a coach who’s been busted for recruiting violations before like Kelvin Sampson, you’re going to take the fall if and when he’s accused of violations again.

So now with the NCAA’s recent revealing of a charge against Indiana University for “failing to monitor” the activities of both Sampson and assistant Rob Senderoff regarding phone calls to recruits, Greenspan decided to get out, his resignation effective at the end of the calendar year.

(He’ll be riding out of Bloomington with the wind in his hair.)

The INDIANAPOLIS STAR reports that the NCAA infractions committee handed down the charge because:

…IU failed “to provide the extra close oversight and scrutiny of all aspects of the men’s basketball program that was required by the prior infractions record of the former coach.” That refers to Sampson breaking recruiting rules while in his previous job at Oklahoma. Penalties from those violations followed Sampson to IU.

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It’s not Kelvin Sampson’s fault that Indiana had committed several NCAA violations during his reign as basketball coach. Just ask him yourself.

Mark Alesia of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR phones in news that Sampson & two former IU assistants will be heading to Seattle on June 13 to face the NCAA Committee on Infractions. The most serious charges Sampson faces include making unauthorized calls to recruits & lying about it to the university.

But Kelvin already has his defense all set: Read more…

Last week, it was revealed that a little trip to the ESPN studios may have caused a big headache for the University of Connecticut. And now the NCAA has reached a verdict in their investigation.

The HARTFORD COURANT learns that UConn was ruled to have committed a “secondary violation” for arranging a visit to the Bristol studios for basketball recruit Maya Moore. Read more…

A high school recruit’s visit to the ESPN studios may have gotten the University of Connecticut into trouble with the NCAA.

Shelley Smith reports that her employer may have helped the Huskies commit violations when they allowed women’s basketball recruit Maya Moore to take a trip around the Bristol-based buildings. Sources say the UConn-requested tour was considered an “improper benefit” that Moore received during her 2005 visit to the school.

The NCAA apparently began the investigation after receiving a tip from the Huskies’ biggest on-court nemesis. Read more…

ESPN’s Andy Katz is reporting that Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson may have lied about phone calls when the university self-reported violations, meaning further problems for the beleaguered coach.

This investigation comes after Sampson had already been punished by the school for more illegal phone calls at IU while he was already on probation for similar offenses at his last coaching gig in Oklahoma.

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A month ago, UCLA hired Rick Neuheisel as its football coach. Neuheisel, a former Bruins player, most recently served as a head coach at the Univ. of Washington for four seasons, until he was pushed out in 2003 for participating in March Madness tournament pools.

But that’s tame compared to what the SEATTLE TIMES recently dug up on Neuheisel during his UW tenure. In a stunningly researched and detailed series, reporters Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry deconstruct Neuheisel’s charges as a band of direction-less outlaws, who knew little discipline and were terrors in the local community.

The best (worst) example of this was Tight End Jerramy Stevens. His rap sheet is too long to list here. But all you need to know about Stevens’ character is contained in an “e-mail Stevens had sent to one woman he’d slept with at the UW.” Read more…