The Meaningful Collateral

Cast: Galen Clavio, John Gasaway of Basketball Prospectus
Topics: We talk about the Indiana situation, including Kelvin Sampson, the allegations of major NCAA violations, and potential coaching candidates for the soon-to-be vacancy. Also discussed are some of the teams in action on Wednesday night, including the Syracuse Orange, who suffered a ridiculously bad loss at South [...]

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Credit to The Indianapolis Star cartoonist Gary Varvel for this cartoon in October.

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Flash back to March 29th, 2006. I was a cub reporter at a Louisville TV station covering Indiana’s hiring Kelvin Sampson, and asked Indiana Athletic Director Rick Greenspan why he would hire a coach whose actions at Oklahoma could bring sanctions to IU (remember: Sampson made 577 [!] improper calls to recruits while at Oklahoma). [...]

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I have watched and listened to the MLB Steroids Hearing on Capitol Hill today starring Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee.  99.99% of the time these hearing are long, drawn out and boring.  While today’s hearings were long and drawn out for certain, it was the most entertaining thing I have heard/seen in quite some time.  But let’s back up.

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Okay, there’s no *OFFICIAL* confirmation yet on this, but multiple sources are saying that Indiana University will NOT be having a press conference prior to tonight’s game versus Wisconsin.
How can this be possible? Is the IU administration being run by third graders? How could you possibly drop a 15-page PDF detailing major allegations of cheating [...]

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The news broke this morning, and it’s not pretty.  The NCAA alleged five major violations against Indiana University’s men’s basketball team, a school that hasn’t had a major violation since 1960.
First off, here’s the PDF copy of the report: List of NCAA Allegations
Now, what does the report mean? In its most basic terms, the report [...]

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I think the important thing is that John Rocker is fully engaged.  Or that he’s still alive and relevant enough to reveal in a Monday interview that Bud Selig and MLB Officials just might have turned a blind eye to a performance enhancing drug epidemic.  Apparently, as part of a 14 game suspension incurred in [...]

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I’m always hesitant to take anything Andy Katz says at face value, particularly when there’s not a source attached to it (Remember the fiasco prior to IU hiring Sampson? Yeah, exactly). However, if Andy Katz is correct this time, things are about to get pretty goddamn ugly in Hoosierville.
Multiple news outlets reported on Tuesday night [...]

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