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In a reply to '''Kelvin Sampson & NCAA Violations''', Josh writes: ''You're right, Sampson's violations are not severe. '' Josh, this is not going to become true just because you say it over and over. Nate0 has been playing this record for months, but '''it is still untrue'''. I will lift this paragraph from my thread titled '''Coaches and Violations:''' Really, is it so hard to understand that '''no violation is secondary when you're on probation''' -- that is the definition of probation. The non-secondary ('''major''') violations at OU included "Fostering an atmosphere of non-compliance." That doesn't mean he failed to keep everyone else from doing bad -- it means ''he encouraged (required?) them to go on cheating''. [This finding was agreed to by both the school and the coach. They admitted to both the cheating and the atmosphere in which it occurred.] In the newly released summary of violations (pertaining to activities on behalf of IU), the phrase is softened to "Failing to maintain an atmosphere of compliance." Still '''not a secondary violation'''. The NCAA document in fact accuses your poor martyr of repeated, willful, arrogant conduct. The NCAA regulations on recruiting are not a pick-and-choose menu which leaves a coach the option of selecting which ones he will follow and which ones will be surreptitiously ignored. The amateurish attempts to mask the violations confirm awareness that the conduct was outside the stipulations of probation. '''If I were trying to champion a program's integrity, I wouldn't start by crying, "We only cheat a little bit," when that itself is a blatant lie. When you climb on your white horse, make sure you are facing the front.''' The longer you keep trying to justify/minimize these events, the longer you will have to deal with the fact that they '''did''' occur. Admit what happened. Deal with it. Move on.