Academic

"Sampson is gone"

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

That's Mark Schlabach on ESPN. From where I sit, the baffling thing about the Kelvin Sampson affair is that Indiana hired him in the first place. Reputation markets have dead spots where information doesn't circulate, but that was not the problem in this case. Everyone knew Sampson's history with Oklahoma. Why take on that baggage?

Full post as published by Conglomerate on February 16, 2008 (boomark / email).