So the high-and-mighty NABC has ruled.

It's a rare occurrence... but today I again agree with Bob Kravitz.

This is just plain ridiculous.

NABC goes a little overboard - Bob Kravitz at the IndyStar

I do like the following...

But here's where I get lost: If the NABC board of directors gave the ethics committee the power to sanction misbehaving coaches as early as 2003, why was Sampson the first and only coach to feel their wrath? Wasn't there misconduct elsewhere in 2004 and '05?

Let me save you the effort of researching the answer: It's "yes."

I'm further puzzled by the chronology of events. It's not like they made jaywalking illegal on Monday and caught Sampson jaywalking on Tuesday. The NCAA dropped the bomb on Sampson and IU in May. The NABC's new ethics charter wasn't completed until July 12, 2006.

If this is going to be retroactive, it seems to me beloved UCLA coach John Wooden might be taken to the woodshed for his program's association with booster Sam Gilbert.

Some of the NABC's tactics here strike me as not only self-aggrandizing, but inspired by an increasingly personal desire to knock Sampson down a few pegs.

Ding Ding Ding... we have a winner! The trip back to the top of the Basketball mountain is going to be a sweet ride. Seems we have another coach that everyone wants to hate.

The original star article about the NABC and their repremand on Sampson...

IU's Sampson reprimanded by coaches' group - indystar.com