Kelvin Sampson was forced out as Indiana's basketball coach last February amid a burgeoning scandal over NCAA recruiting violations.  Now, the NCAA is taking the step to ensure he can't coach a college program for at least five years.

Sampson received a five-year show-cause penalty -- one of the harshest the NCAA can levy against an individual.  The Hoosiers also received three years' probation.

In its report, the NCAA committee said: "A head coach does not promote compliance when he intentionally ignores committee penalties directed at him for intentional rules violations.  A head coach also does not promote compliance when he himself commits intentional violations."

Indiana was accused of four major NCAA violations that stemmed from more than 100 impermissible phone calls to recruits by Sampson and his assistant coaches during his first season in Bloomington.

The most serious charge against Sampson was that he provided false information to NCAA enforcement staff members and Indiana compliance officers.

The fallout also cost Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan his job.

There have been a number of coaches in a variety of sports who have received a show-cause punishment. Former Cal basketball coach Todd Bozeman was given an eight-year show cause, but it took him 10 years to finally get hired, by Morgan State. As Bozeman has said, getting a job after receiving such punishment is extremely difficult.