Indiana to NCAA: No additional penalties necessary

Athletic director Rick Greenspan called the violations secondary and imposed the one-year extension of the NCAA's restrictions. However, an NCAA report released Feb. 13 by Indiana claimed Sampson provided false and misleading information to investigators from both the university and the NCAA, failed to meet the "generally recognized high standard of honesty" expected in college sports and failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the program.

Sampson denied intentionally providing investigators with false information, but he accepted a $750,000 buyout nine days after the NCAA alleged he committed five major recruiting violations. Indiana is scheduled to appear before the infractions committee June 14 in Seattle, and a decision is expected within 30 days after that.

Sampson, who is going to be an assistant coach with the NBA Milwaukee Bucks, and Crean are both expected to attend the hearing.

In the response to the NCAA, Indiana said most of the calls made from the home phones of former assistants were permissible under NCAA rules.

"However, it was determined that a significant number of calls were contrary to, or resulted in other calls being contrary to" the earlier sanctions.

Sampson noted in his 70-page response that he had not personally placed any of the calls in violation of Indiana's restrictions.

Indiana said that it had accepted the earlier sanctions, but former assistant coaches Jeff Meyer and Rob Senderoff said they were not aware the sanctions applied to phone calls to recruits before a committee report in May 2006.

"Indiana University is troubled by the disregard for University policies and procedures that is reflected by these impermissible calls," the IU response said, "particularly as the assistant coaches' failure to notify the compliance office about the use of their home phones for recruiting calls and their failure to report the calls made from home prevented the compliance office from effectively monitoring these calls and identifying these issues earlier."

Sampson acknowledged that he had "unknowingly" been involved in a secondary violation involving an alleged recruiting contact at a team camp.