If all else fails, Kelvin Sampson can always return to Montana Tech

February 26th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

We’ve kept most — if not all — of our thoughts about now former IU coach Kelvin Sampson over at ITH, because well, it’s an Indiana basketball blog we write for. (Confusing, twisty logic — I know!) But hey, time to throw the guy a bone here. Even if it’s a small bone, devoid of meat and from the leg of a hen. (Huh?!?) You may not know this, but before Sampson claimed asshole-ish authority over beat reports in Norman, OK. and Bloomington, IN. on a daily basis, he coached at Montana Tech.

Turns out he’s still got much love for them, donating enough scrill to get his name on the court. And they, in turn, have much love for him.

“He’s a great man and did a tremendous amount for our university,” Joe McClafferty, Montana Tech athletics director, said last week. “For me, especially as a player here, I learned life lessons from him I’ll never forget. He’ll always be someone I think of fondly in my heart.”

At a time when Sampson is being butchered by the national media - he’s been called everything from a “cheater” to a “very bad man” to “flat-out dumb” - McClafferty’s loyalty is intriguing.

“Our court will stay Kelvin Sampson Court,” McClafferty said. “We still love the guy and if he wants to come back, we’d sure take him.

“He came here, thought he was taking a job for $1,100 a week, and it was actually $1,100 a month. He took over a program in shambles and within one season he turned it into a winning program.”

Now friends, it’s time for a predictable, played-out, unimaginative and unoriginal joke: I bet Sampson has been calling the AD to inquire about a job all week just like he called all those recruits! *Laugh track from Full House because this is the type of humor we’re dealing with here*

{Via FanHouse.}