IU AD Rick Greenspan To Resign Amid New Charges Facing School
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Indiana's Greenspan To
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Indiana Univ. (IU) AD Rick Greenspan Thursday announced his resignation, effective at the end of '08, according to Alesia & Hutchens of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. The news came "almost immediately after IU revealed that the NCAA infractions committee had added a 'failure to monitor' charge against the school" for violations surrounding the men's basketball program. The charge, IU's fifth major allegation, is "less serious than 'lack of institutional control' but still could bring serious penalties, including a postseason ban." Greenspan and IU President Michael McRobbie at the news conference said that it was Greenspan's choice to resign. IU Assistant VP/University Communications Larry MacIntyre said that Greenspan will receive a "severance package worth $441,000" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 6/27). Greenspan said that he "hopes to continue in athletics and would like to be an [AD] again." Greenspan: "Some of the charges I was given when I came here were to balance our budget, improve our academic facilities and our athletic facilities overall, and I think I was able to do that" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 6/27).
TECHNICAL FOUL: ESPN.com's Dana O'Neil wrote the scandal surrounding IU and former men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson "has been a protracted program killer." It has "cost Sampson, Greenspan and former [basketball] assistants Rob Senderoff and Jeff Meyer their jobs; torpedoed a top-10 program into a NCAA tournament first-round crash and burn; and left the new coach Tom Crean with a disaster to clean up" (ESPN.com, 6/26). In Indianapolis, Bob Kravitz writes the "epitaph can be written on Rick Greenspan's reign of (t)error" at IU. Greenspan "may not have completely destroyed IU's basketball program -- he had some help -- but the misguided [AD] brought one of the nation's legendary programs to its knees." Kravitz writes of Greenspan's resignation, "Will this help IU's position when the NCAA decides what additional penalties it might levy? That's clearly the hope" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 6/27).
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