Sources: Sampson won't coach this year

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 Sources: Sampson won't coach this year
Come Saturday, Indiana will have a new head men's basketball coach. In the wake of NCAA allegations that Kelvin Sampson committed recruiting violations and then lied about them to investigators from both Indiana and the NCAA, Sampson was informed early Thursday that he will not be coaching the Hoosiers for at least the remainder of this season, numerous sources told FOXSports.com. [link]

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Report: Indiana Has Told Kelvin Sampson He's Done as Basketball Coach
Published 2/21/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: Indiana Basketball, Big Ten Basketball, NCAA Basketball CoachesJeff Goodman of Fox Sports is reporting that Kelvin Sampson was informed early today that he will no longer be the head basketball coach at Indiana. Although an Indiana spokesman responded to the report by saying, "I don't know that to be true" and said that no official announcement is scheduled, Goodman reports that the official announcement will come Friday, at the end of the university's seven-day investigation into allegations that Sampson repeatedly ...

Reports: Kelvin Sampson To Be Fired/Suspended Friday... Swear to God This Time
Published 2/21/2008 by jtom at Super, Scintillating and Sarcastic
... UPDATE: As Fox Sports reports, it looks like this is a done deal. Not sure why they had him coach those last two if they were going to fire him outright, but whatever.

Kelvin Sampson Done Coaching At Indiana, Likely To Be Fired Tomorrow
Published 2/21/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... have been making plans to go on without Sampson the rest of the season whether that's a suspension and subsequent firing, or just firing. Jeff Goodman says they'll fire Sampson tomorrow. Either way they do it, I hope they deliver the message via Text. U R FIRED, K THX. ...

Jeff Goodman says Sampson has been fired
Published 2/21/2008 by Big A at Inside the Hall | An Indiana basketball blog
... At this point, I’m not really sure what to believe. We’ve had three different reports today on Kelvin Sampson’s future as the head basketball coach at Indiana. The latest is from Jeff Goodman of Foxsports.com: ...

More smoke.
Published 2/21/2008 by John M at The Hoosier Report
... Michael McRobbie's office and Assembly Hall. Very nice. Also, Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports reports that numerous sources have told him that Sampson was informed early Thursday that he no longer would be IU's coach. ...

Everyone wants to break the Sampson story and I’m talking to you Jeff Goodman
Published 2/21/2008 by HebrewHammer at The Meaningful Collateral
  FOX Sports.com’s Jeff Goodman is now reporting that Kelvin Sampson has been fired as Indiana’s head coach: “Sampson was informed early Thursday that he will no longer be the coach at Indiana, numerous sources told FOXSports.com. The official announcement is expected to come Friday, when the university’s self-imposed seven-day investigation period ends.” So there you have it Sampson is out at IU, just like Goodman reported that D.J. White was out against Purdue.  White went for 19 points and 15 rebounds in the ...

Sources: Kelvin Sampson Fired
Published 2/21/2008 by Jeff at March Madness All Season
According to Jeff Goodman of FOXSports.com, Indiana head coach Kelvin Sampson has coached his final game for the Hoosiers. He was informed early this morning that he has been terminated and will no longer coach at Indiana. An official announcement is expected to come on Friday, although Indiana director of media relations J.D. Campbell denied the entire report. The sources also say that there is a team meeting at 3:00 local time where the players will be notified of the decision. Indiana assistant coach Dan Dakich will likely step into the vacancy left by ...

FOXSports.com Report: Sampson Fired By Indiana
Published 2/21/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
Jeff Goodman of FOXSports.com reports today that Indiana Coach Kelvin “ Sampson was informed early Thursday that he will no longer be the coach at Indiana, numerous sources told FOXSports.com .” “The official announcement is expected to come Friday, when the university’s self-imposed seven-day investigation period ends. When asked to confirm Sampson’s firing, Indiana director of media relations J.D. Campbell told FOXSports.com, ‘I don’t know that to be true .’” WTHR in Indianapolis also reports Sampson is officially out and his replacement for the rest of the ...

The Rough Patch for Scott Boras Continues
Published 2/21/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... enmity back to this article, likely one of the five best pieces in sports jouralism last year. We all know Sheff has a penchant for stirring the pot, but this quote about his tiff with Boras absolutely rules: “It ain’t going to be pretty,” he said. “No fine is going to be big enough. No suspension is going to be long enough.” Tigers’ Sheffield Rips Ex-Agent Boras (Brietbart) (yes, we are well aware of all the Kelvin Sampson stuff floating about - yes, all of it - but we’ll tackle it ...

Has Kelvin Sampson been fired already?
Published 2/22/2008 by ncaahoops at NCAA Hoops Today
Has the embattled Kelvin Sampson been fired by the basketball-crazy Hoosiers even though he has their best on-court team they've had in years? A number of stories are pointing in that direction, including the AOL Fanhouse and Fox Sports. The stories are accumulated and summarized in the following two Ball Hype posts: here ...

Players revolt, Media unfulfilled, Sampson worm still turns
Published 2/22/2008 by Thermocaster at The Meaningful Collateral
... , refusing to make any substantive comments to reporters. Meanwhile, several media outlets have already drawn up the obituaries. Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports has steadfastly maintained that Sampson is done and will not be on the sidelines as of Saturday’s game at Northwestern , according to sources close to the situation. ...

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Indiana’s Monday night win over Purdue will likely be the last game Kelvin Sampson spends on the Hoosier bench. ESPN reports that the Hoosiers coach is expected to be suspended this week, then eventually fired . A source told the ...
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This just in on the Sampson situation : Indiana University is making plans to finish the basketball season without Kelvin Sampson. The coach of the Hoosiers is not expected to be with the team when they play at Northwestern Saturday. A source ...
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Erin Andrews: 'Coach Sampson, Very Honest'

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Doug Gottlieb Defends Rick Greenspan on Kelvin Sampson: 'Who Could Have Thought?'

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Report: Indiana Meets With Assistant About Taking Over for the Rest of the Season

Speculation is rampant, but we now may have some concrete evidence on Indiana's next move on Kelvin Sampson . Indianapolis' WHTR-TV is reporting that Indiana University is making plans for Sampson not being there and have talked with assistant coach ...
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