INDIANAPOLIS
Indiana assistant Rob Senderoff, the focus of an investigation into improper telephone calls to recruits that already has cost the Hoosiers one basketball scholarship and coach Kelvin Sampson a $500,000 pay raise, resigned Tuesday.
The NCAA is still conducting its own investigation, which could lead to further sanctions.
The resignation of Senderoff is effective immediately, IU said in a brief statement from the school’s sports media relations office.
“Rob Senderoff has decided it is in his and Indiana University’s best interests that he voluntarily resign,” the statement said.
Athletic director Rick Greenspan and an attorney with the Indianapolis law firm Ice Miller, which conducted the school’s review of the phone calls for a report to the NCAA, were to speak with reporters Tuesday afternoon.
Senderoff, a former assistant at Kent State, was hired by Sampson in May 2006, the same month the NCAA sanctioned Sampson for making 577 impermissible phone calls between 2000 to 2004 while he was the coach at Oklahoma.
