Athletic Department sanctions Sampson, staff

The IU Department of Athletics will announce today it will self-impose more sanctions on men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and his staff for exceeding the amount of permissible phone calls to recruits. \nIU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan said in a release that Sampson and his staff exceeded the limited number of phone calls allowed after a set of NCAA sanctions had already limited the number of calls his staff was allowed to make. \nBefore arriving at IU, Sampson and his staff made more than 500 impermissible phone calls while at Oklahoma and was sanctioned by the NCAA.\nThe team will lose one scholarship next season, and assistant coach Rob Senderoff is prohibited from making phone calls and traveling off campus for recruiting. He won’t receive a bonus this year or an increase in salary next year, according to the release. \nSampson will not receive a $500,000 raise this year. He made two impermissible phone calls, according to the release. \nA teleconference is scheduled for 1 p.m. \nCheck www.idsnews.com/basketblog and tomorrow’s paper for further coverage of this developing story.