Indiana University President Michael McRobbie announced Feb. 15 that the university will launch an immediate investigation
into new NCAA allegations against men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson.
Athletics Director Rick Greenspan will oversee an assessment as to whether allegations of potentially “major” recruiting violations raised against Sampson are “credible and accurate,” McRobbie said.
Greenspan will have until Feb. 22 to complete the investigation and report back to McRobbie with a recommendation on what further action should be taken, McRobbie said during a short press conference.
Even though Sampson likely will be the team’s coach for the next two games, and maybe the entire season, speculation already has started to swirl about who should be IU’s next coach should the ax fall.
The names that have surfaced are Washington State coach Tony Bennett, son of former Wisconsin coach Dick Bennett; Baylor coach Scott Drew, son of Valparaiso coach Homer Drew; Ohio State’s Thad Matta and New Mexico’s Steve Alford.
WFNI-AM 1070 talk show host Eddie White even lobbied for Texas Tech’s Pat Knight. The son of The General, however, has already gone on record saying he isn’t interested.
What do you think? If Sampson goes, who should replace him?
Athletics Director Rick Greenspan will oversee an assessment as to whether allegations of potentially “major” recruiting violations raised against Sampson are “credible and accurate,” McRobbie said.
Greenspan will have until Feb. 22 to complete the investigation and report back to McRobbie with a recommendation on what further action should be taken, McRobbie said during a short press conference.
Even though Sampson likely will be the team’s coach for the next two games, and maybe the entire season, speculation already has started to swirl about who should be IU’s next coach should the ax fall.
The names that have surfaced are Washington State coach Tony Bennett, son of former Wisconsin coach Dick Bennett; Baylor coach Scott Drew, son of Valparaiso coach Homer Drew; Ohio State’s Thad Matta and New Mexico’s Steve Alford.
WFNI-AM 1070 talk show host Eddie White even lobbied for Texas Tech’s Pat Knight. The son of The General, however, has already gone on record saying he isn’t interested.
What do you think? If Sampson goes, who should replace him?
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Twenty years since your last championship makes this a different Indiana. There would have been lots of coaches clamoring to coach the old Indiana. Not sure that this current Indiana holds the same allure.
Tony Bennett is 38 and Scott Drew who has rebuilt the Baylor program is 37.
There are coaches who will come to IU even with the possibility of probation without rehashing some of the old tired names like Knight and Alford.
Hazel -- Greenspan won't allow anyone connected to Knight to come in. That's why Dakich isn't an acceptable interim. This is wrong, but I think Greenspan should be fired as well as Sampson. This happened because he hired Sampson, knowing the problems. Bennett and Drew? Maybe. Neither of them will be hot names the way that Keno Davis will be. You don't hire a coach who didn't even take his team to the tourney.
In all seriousness, I think IU should try to convince coach Knight to take the AD job after Greenspan is fired. He could certainly bring back some integrity and credibility to the program, although it might make it tough to hire a good coach since they might be worried about Knight looking over their shoulder.
Tom Crean (Marquette)
Sean Miller (Xavier)
Jay Wright (Nova)
Rick Barnes (Texas)
Mark Turgeon (Texas A&M)
Mark Few (Gonzaga)
Big Bucks Required List (Mark Cuban I hope you're reading this):
Billy Donovan (Florida)
Thad Matta (Ohio State)
Please Not:
Alford, Knight, Isiah, nor Whitman, please these are not the direction we need to go in.
I really think Crean or Miller are solid picks. Plus, THE CREAN AND CRIMSON is kind of catchy. These are 2 up and coming coaches that will make a jump to a major program sometime soon, might as well be us.