Sampson allegedly violates NCAA rules...again

Following the NCAA's October assertion that Kelvin Sampson made 577 -- yeah, 577 -- impermissible phone calls, Sampson is back on the hot seat again. According to ESPN.com, Sampson has been tagged for five "major" violations in an NCAA report released on Wednesday. The allegations deal with Sampson giving investigators "false or misleading information" in Sampson's recruiting fiasco at the University of Oklahoma.
These allegations come on the heels of Sampson's previous NCAA recruiting violations for making three-way calls to recruits and 100 impermissible calls to recruits while on probation at Oklahoma. Sampson had already forfeited a $500,000 bonus from his previous school and lost a scholarship for the team. Apparently, when Sampson was hit on the wrist with these penalties, he didn't learn his lesson.
Sampson, along with assistant coach Jeff Meyer and former assistant coach Rob Senderoff, failed to stick to the NCAA's sanctions and again made impermissible phone calls to recruits. Sampson was not allowed to be around or take part in the phone calls to Indiana recruits. The report alleges Sampson not only violated this sanction, but did so 100 times.
The NCAA goes on to report Sampson and Meyer also gave a backpack and at least one t-shirt to a recruit during a sports camp at Assembly Hall this past summer.
How many times are we going to see large Division I schools fail to comply with regulations the NCAA has? Don't even get me started on how schools only graduate a fraction of the student athletes they churn through their programs. But beyond that, the schools continually violate NCAA rules or defy logic in the name of the one god they bow to each and every day -- the almighty W.
Two staff members at Florida State University were fired following 60 athletes partaking in an online course scandal. Dave Bliss resigned from his post as Baylor men's basketball coach after drug testing and financial aid rules were not upheld by his program. George O'Leary resigned five days into his job as head football coach at Notre Dame after saying he lied about his academic and athletic background during the hiring process.
I am waiting for the day when programs will run clean recruiting sweeps, when the NCAA's signing day is less of an NFL Draft and more of a college committment. When the process of committing onesself to a school is less of a hat fitting session at Lids and more of a binding contract. When I can watch a BCS game and not wonder which players on the field used essaybay.com and cheated to pass NCAA Clearinghouse regulations and which did not.
That will surely be a crowning day in college athletics.