Former Indiana basketball star Eric Gordon decided to get something big off his chest. Gordon, who is now with the Los Angeles Clippers, said there was some major dissension in Bloomington and it was based around drugs.
"It was a well-known fact that it was displayed, guys using drugs and things like that. I really wasn't really worried about it, I was just worried about playing."
He also went onto to say that then coach Kelvin Sampson knew about the drug use but decided to concentrate on winning instead of doing what was truly best for the team.
Well this Kelvin Sampson fellow turned out to be a real class act. The best thing the school did was get rid of him. While I am not surprised that college kids are using or just dabbling with drugs, I am upset that the coach knew what was going on and did nothing about it. Just sat idly by, texting away while his own team was crumbling around him. Shame on him. And shame on the University. This type of behavior should not be condoned, especially in an atmosphere that is supposed to nurture its student body. A coach doesn’t have to be your best friend, but when he knows about a situation like this, he should discipline his players, either benching them or kicking them off the team. Winning is great, it brings in lots of money, I get it. In the end, if you put money in front of the students's well being then you are blatantly going against any University’s mission statement and that cannot be tolerated.
(Photo: Darron Cummings/AP; source)
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