Done.

O-zone should have plenty of fodder for him.

Even the wicked get a reprieve.

He fits the culture. Sweet move Laing.

Holy moly

dakich melted down on Senderhoof, McCallum and Sampson today. Sent him an email telling him to put that podcast up but I think he will it go.

Scathing and blatantly honest about the culture those folks had let go in Bloomington and the disgust he felt when he walked into the whole mess. Not happy that "Cheaters and slime" get places onthe coaching tree without the NCAA doing anything of substance.

It's up in a few weeks, not November.

This hire is a microcosm of what's wrong with college athletics as is the UK men's basketball program.  Coach does wrong, school suffers, coach moves on to next job.  This is not to say that people can't change and learn from their mistakes.  Forgiveness is important when the facts warrant, but what he have now is no accountability for the perps of these bad deeds except for the institutions -- no personal accountability.  The system is a mess.

Oh, I see your logic, being hired at Kent was a stinging penalty.  Nah . . . the only way I'd buy this argument was if he was hired at Oxford Tech.  But wouldn't that be "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the US Constitution?  

Edit: A so-called "show cause" penalty isn't much.  Sounds harsh, but it really doesn't have any teeth.   

Sure the show cause penalty could have been damaging, but in reality he never skipped a beat.  He got hired at Kent, and is now a head coach at one of the best mid-major stepping stone jobs in the country.  So, at the end of the day, at most it forced him to take a step back from IU to Kent, and cost him some salary, but career wise it hasn't had any real impact so far.  Maybe it will in a couple years if he is unable to move up to a better job, but for the time being his actual punishment served has been minimal.

I'm not buying that.  If Kent hadn't hired him back, he'd have hooked on somewhere else.  These coaches all seem to have a way to get back in the game after they and/or their institutions are hit with penalties.  

The last real penalties that the NCAA handed down in D1 where the "death penalty" to SMU in football and USL in basketball.  Bobby Collins, the head man at SMU, had his reputation totally ruined, and he was never able to find a D1 coaching gig again.  It seems that the NCAA either does slaps on the wrists or throws the nuclear bomb.  There doesn't seem to be much in between.  I guess I'm for lobing the occasional nuclear bomb, it keeps 'em on their toes.  However, I must admit that the Sampson-Senderoff thing was probably not nuclear-bomb worthy, but something a little harsher than a "show cause" should have been in order.  As it was Sampson got a $750,000 "settlement" from IU and now has an assistant coaching job in the NBA.  I wouldn't at all be surprised to see him as a head collegiate coach again.  Again, that's OK, if he is truly repentant, but I really think the initial penalties on these perps ought to be more than it is.  

Here, compliments of the ever semi-accurate wikipedia, is a list of what real penalties look like:  

The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. It is the harshest penalty that an NCAA member school can receive.

It has been implemented only five times:

1. The University of Kentucky basketball program for the 1952–53 season.
2. The basketball program at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) for the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons
3. The Southern Methodist University football program for the 1987 and 1988 seasons.
4. The Division II college soccer program at Morehouse College for the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
5. The Division III Men's Tennis program at MacMurray College for the 2005-06 and 2006-07 season

This is TRUE

You want to hear how little it means callinto the Dakich show and get him statrted on just how little the NCAA has affected any of the lives  of the guys who trashed tthe entire IU program. As soon as Samsons time is up some yutz university will take a chance on him .

in most places the creem is allowed to rise to the top...in the NCAA it is often covered by rising slime.

JSF ....your comments are without base. Senderhoff and McCallum (yes he is a personal friend and a Muncie Guy) should have both been tossed along with Samson for their part not onlyin the infractions but for the culture of the program they created. Athletes coming into their next university with more than 14hours of phys ed credits and other discrepancies with regard to the APR progress on their transcript should go back ot hose coaches who created the problem and the SHOULD be kept away from ALL college athletes for some period of time. Unless you have spent time talking to and listening to AD's and coaches  discussing the individuals and who would hire them I dont think you have any business telling this board they were "nuclear" because Detroit jumped on Ray and IMHO Senderhoff had more than Kent to fall back on.

One of the reasons I  really enjoyed being away from here for a year was that I have been at home in a  Rivals.com place full of men who have seen way  more hoops than me and bills itself as being for only the most serious of Hoosier Hysteria faithful - The thinking man's civil place to discuss basketball....where folks do not twist what you say and actually think about what they are replying to because most of the guys there actually know way more about hoops than those of us who have only been around the game on the margins. I have enjoyed being back here as I still have a passion for Ohio and the fanbase here especially those who have acquired or renewed a thirst for Ohio Basketball under the Groce regime. Hopefully some of that ambience of the Rivals site oozes over here and the joke about dealing with facts here gets abolished someday.

I am sure if you got that Senderhoff "could have beenout of the profession had we not hired him" from a Kent AD then that has to be the opinion of 341 other schools AD's , donors and Head Coac hes. \

Same thing with Samson. OCF is correct in saying these penalties mean nothing. The NCAA has no sack. Calhoun gets suspended and is allowed to caoh while another athlete is immediately suspended during his conference tourney because his mother accepted and repaid loans for rent from his AAU coach his freshman year in HS.  Calhoun nor samson nor senderhoof nor McCallum got anything near what they should have for the roles they played. And because of the the penalties willlapse and someon has or will hire each of them and let them around kids and parents again.

If you want to put words in my mouth .....OK I guess. My tirade on McCallum and Senderhoff was an indictment of all the culture surrounding the program as I have understood it firsthand from Players, Alums, Donors, Coaches in the system and out, Admins in the program and out, guys on Peegs.com  with first hand knowledge of all the characters in the play.....  and after listening to all .....evaaluating and rethinking as new info comes to light I replied. I never put any words in your mouth and I did not imply anything as I am not convinced you would even know who Ray McCallum or any of the dozens of  characters not alluded to on the ESPN ticker is......but ya know what ....you just go right on ahead and be right....i really dont care .....I will just be over here....a littel off base not knowing anything of which i speak.    

I'm not sure why you say that. The MAC has had a ton of top assistants from the Big 10 start out in the MAC. Like, you know, John Groce. Even IU. Like Dakich.

And to think all of us ignorant basketball fans from Ohio survived your 1-year sabbatical.

You could be right. I guess it's about as probable as Boals coming back to coach Ohio, but a lot of people on here are hoping.