COACH KELVIN CHARACTER

Kelvin Sampson's Website, twenty years removed from his first head college coaching position, reads like a resume.  His Website details his achievements at every stop in his coaching career, and as an added bonus, Sampson writes a short column entitled Passion and Intensity.  In the piece, Sampson declares he wants players who personify hard work, intensity "character, passion, commitment and a dedication and willingness to work hard and get better."  His column comes replete with the egotistical observation, "Many friends will comment to me that they are thoroughly impressed with our style of play."

Kelvin Sampson is all about Kelvin Sampson all the while pretending he is about something bigger than Kelvin Sampson. 

Kelvin Sampson was hired by Indiana University even after the NCAA concluded he and his assistant coaches made hundreds of illicit phone calls to attract potential recruits to play for him at the University of Oklahoma.

He professes to be a man of high character and solid judgment, molding student-athletes into men all under his watchful eye; as his other, more ambitious and self-serving eye, looks for dishonest ways of luring players to his program as his current and past players fail to graduate.  He had one hand on the pulse of his Oklahoma program; the other on his cell-phone making hundreds of impermissible calls to potential recruits begging them to join him in Norman.

Here are the facts: