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…