More Woes for Indiana Athletics

The hits keep on coming for the Hoosiers. Months after Indiana University at Bloomington revealed that the National Collegiate Athletic Association had accused its men’s basketball coach, Kelvin Sampson, of breaking rules much like those he broke in his previous job at the University of Oklahoma, university officials announced Thursday that the NCAA had added an additional charge — the dreaded “failure to monitor” allegation that accuses the university directly, and not just its underlings. Indiana officials said they would defend themselves “vigorously” against the additional charge, which tends to bring increased penalties against colleges that face it. Almost concurrently, the university’s athletics department announced that the athletics director, Rick Greenspan, would resign at the end of 2008. Greenspan has come under intense fire for hiring Sampson, and the additional NCAA accusation can’t have helped. For Article Links: Quick Takes: Insurance Refunds, Community College Formula Fairness, Pork Barrel Expands, More Woes for Indiana Athletics, Sign of Change for WVU, Reforming Adult Education, Elusive Pig :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views