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Someone’s not telling the truth (hint: he’s pictured)

by Alex Bozich in Media | June 6th, 2008

kelvinclose2.JPGAnother day has passed and more digging into the NCAA case summary is complete. This time, it’s excerpt from an interview with Kelvin Sampson where he denies ever being on a three-way call where he and Rob Senderoff talked simultaneously.

Here’s what Sampson said on November 13, 2007: “There was never, there was never an instance where I was on the phone with a kid where Rob Senderoff talked.”

However, interviews conducted by Mark Neyland of the NCAA enforcement staff with Yvonne Jackson (mother of Devin Ebanks), Will Buford, DeJuan Blair, Yancey Gates and Demetri McCamey tell a different story.

Transcripts of those conversations after the jump.

Mark Neyland: How certain are you about the portion of the call where there was an actual three-way conversation (with Sampson and Senderoff)?

Yvonne Jackson: Oh, I’m, I’m certain, I’m very certain of that.

Neyland: Uh, was, to your knowledge was, was coach Sampson aware that this call was a three-way call?

Jackson: Uh, I, I, I would have to think that he might’ve known that he was being attached to, uh, onto me. Uh, now how they did it, I can’t really, I don’t really know. But I, I, I believe so.

Mark Neyland: Well, tell me as much as you can remember, about, uh, about that phone call. Like, uh, how did you end up getting on the phone and, and, you know, who was saying what?

Will Buford: Well, the assistant coach (Senderoff), I was talking to the assistant coach at first, and he called the head coach and put him on three way.

Neyland
: How certain are you that the assistant coach let the, let the head coach know that you were on the phone.

Buford
: I’m positive.

Mark Neyland: How certain are you that they were both involved at the same time in the phone call whether it be they were together in person together or whether it be on three way, how certain are you that they were both involved in the actual call?

DeJuan Blair
: They both were on the phone, I’m, they both was on the phone talking, we all was on the phone. And it could’ve been, like I said, it could’ve been, uh, uh, a speaker phone. You know, I don’t, I, I was at my house so I can’t say what was, what was going on at Indiana, so.



Mark Neyland
: So in terms of, of this phone conversation, was, were all three of you, both you, coach Senderoff and coach Sampson having a conversation between the three of you?

Yancey Gates: Yes.



Mark Neyland
: How certain are you that it was actually three-way conversation with all three of you on the phone at the same time talking?

Demetri McCamey
: Uh, the, it was, like I said, like a regular three, ’cause there’s only three people on the phone. There was no more of the coaches or nothing.

Neyland
: But you’re sure all three of you were on the phone at the same time?

McCamey: Yes.

Neyland
: And are you sure that coach Sampson was talking to coach Senderoff while you were on the phone, too?

McCamey: Yes.

I’d put the chances of Sampson being the person telling the truth at say, zero percent.

  • Liar, Liar. Youre pants. Are on fire.
  • Kelin Blab
    Here is a very sobering and unfortunate thing about ALL of this.....
    Here is the question....who has suffered for this and who has NOT.

    Who has....
    1. IU, the kids, and the university in many ways.
    2. The fans who supported this program, university, and KS
    3. The good kids...EJ and DJ...to point out a few, who deserved better in their final year
    4. The kids like ebanks, blair, scott martin and hummel, who had nothing to do with any of this but this snake drug them into it...
    5. Rob Senderoff...the NCAA will come down on him and he will lose his gig he just got
    6. Kellen Sampson.....you cannot convince me that when this kid gets a head coaching job somewhere someday this crap won't com up or someone will hold it against him

    Who won't suffer........
    KS
    1. he is in the pro's now and so what if he won't coach in college again, the NCAA can do whatever they want.
    2. he got paid to leave IU when he shouldn't have

    Pathetic.......I wish IU would sue him to get the money back or he be banned for life from coaching in college athletics at ANY level..........
  • you're absolutely right. Samsung will never think about this again and the IU program will have to hear about it for years to come. I am already trying to get tickets close to the visitors bench when the Bucks come to town so i can harass Kelvin until they kick me out of there
  • hoosierfan27
    F*** ya. I can get floor Pacers tix for almost any game i want. If I get a Bucks game I'm giving Kelvin a piece of my mind. What a scumbag
  • BTOWN40
    no comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!D!!!!!!!!!!!i!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CK
  • Big A, is there any possibility of finding another picture of KS? One without IU's logo in the background?
    Can't stand to have him pictured with a background as such regards,

    Hoosiergirl
  • hoosierfan27
  • Kelin Blab
    I'm there too...right behind the Bucks bench......this will be the longest NBA game of his life.

    "Hey Kelvin......DeJuan Blair is on the phone"
    "Hey Kelvin.....is your caller ID working?"
    "Hey Kelvin.......Rob Senderoff is on the phone to tell you thanks a-hole"
  • LOL, much better
  • JerryCT
    I agree with everyone , they broke the rules, they knew the rules, they falsified the logs and lied in the investigation. By the same token I analyzed the phone calls in the report and here are some facts:

    - around 116 impermissable calls
    - 30 involved Mackey alone
    - All but a few were Senderoff
    - 74 calls were less than 2 minutes , NCAA usually counts this as messages vs calls
    - many calls were within 15 minutes of each other, ( anyone ever drop a call on a cell ? )
    - NCAA counted Morris twins as one kid
    - some trigger calls were technically 30 days apart but in a disallowed calander month

    While the NCAA may be technically correct they are certainly spinning this in the worst possible light by counting the less than 2 minute calls and the Morris twins as one kid. They could have spun this as 26 Impermissable "contacts" as opposed to 116 impermissable "placed calls".
  • cookcmc
    we all know Sampson is a cheatin' scumbag ex-college coach forever.......why do we continually have to have this shoved in our face, isn't there anything else to report on....I'd rather talk about the IU Woman's softball team than Sampson. We give him so much press, and for what, so we can keep reliving the days he coached here.............aaahhhh
  • Fortunately for all of you, the readers, I will never write about IU softball.
  • cookcmc
    On a side note, I haven't read or heard anything about Negedu's visit.....does anybody have any info on that or any feedback from anybody involved with his visit
  • The usual stuff...he liked the visit, he wants to take the rest of his visits...If I had to call it right now, I'd say it's either IU or Memphis.
  • tberry
    It won't be to IU. Take it to the bank!!!
  • Are you going with Memphis?
  • tberry
    Just think he really wants to be part of a NCAA Championship. I see
    no way that IU gets him there in the time he will have as a player.
  • If he wants to be part of an NCAA title team then it would be Tennessee. Memphis isn't gonna be that great this year. Evans will be a star but the rest of the team couldn't guard anyone with a badge and a gun. Their shooting is also suspect. IU will be very solid in a few years so hopefully he'll think about that. I hope the Hoosiers pull it off but as long as he doesn't head to Tiger High i'm happy.
  • JerryCT
    I am having a hard time with the poll results. Is Rose really that much more valuable to get 80% of the votes ? Bayless a scoring point guard the same size as Gordon is only 4% ? IU fans are only 18% biased toward Gordon ? ..........wow
  • Kelin Blab
    I agree, lets not forget EJ is an extremely talent player who is a better shooter, scorer, defender, and bigger than D. Rose.........and in a head to head matchup EJ at his lunch. So that poll must be weighing last season only..........
  • JerryCT
    I believe you have always taken the position that EJ was actually hurt by the lack of coaching he received from KS et al. I fully agree that so much talent enters the draft as still a medium rare talent...........not raw but not done either.
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