Kelvin Sampson May Be Clean Of One Recruiting Violation

A high school coach has provided phone records that prove Kelvin Sampson is clean of one of ten three-way phone calls, that were all determined violations by the NCAA. Sampson was forced to resign as Indiana head coach in February due to being charged with over 100 phone call violations, including three-way calls. Because of Sampson's recruiting violations at Oklahoma State, he was prohibited to be involved in three-way calls if they started with a member of his coaching staff. The original violation was that a former Indiana assistant coach Rob Senderhoff was visiting a recruit and phoned Sampson from the recruit's high school. Than Senderhoff gave the phone to the recruit so that he was talking directly to Sampson, which is a violation. However, the high school coach has provided phone records that he called Sampson, not Senderhoff, which is clean. The NCAA Committee on Infractions is scheduled to hold a hearing with Sampson next Friday.