Nice Joe but I think one large puff of smoke followed by two smaller puffs means he is on a three way puff signal with a recruit and one of his other coach's. But then again those kids are IU kids so they probably thought the smoke was from something else.... :)

Hope that fire is from clean, creasote free wood products or Coach Sampson just committed a Felony! Bud Mackey heard about all the smoke and called Coach and asked if he could still come to IU without playing basketball...

Mike Davis tried that one time...stuttered... and burnt up the blanket.

Bob Knight tried it also, but he used a jersey instead of a blanket. Unfortunately, Neil Reed was still in it.

Mike47424,

Burning is any oxidative process occurring at a high temperature. What you get from any given material during a combustion process depends not only on the substance being burned, but also on temperature, and, of course, oxygen supply. The fire's demand for precise delivery of the oxygen availability is the critical point, the lack of which causes the fire not to exclusively produce H2O and C2O (water and carbon dioxide), so unfortunately most fires burn "dirty". And that is why almost any kind of smoke, even from the burning of "clean wood", will contain some products of incomplete combustion, many of which tend to have a high degree of toxicity. Smoke signals, like cigarettes, can be lethal.

I hope the weathers not stopped his smoke signals... like its stopped my work progress.

Toilet paper can provide some absorbing reading.

Something keeps telling me that Sampson is not telling the truth about these calls. I find it hard to believe that his assistant set up three-way calls and was so quiet that Sampson didn't know he was on the phone.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave,

When first we practise to deceive!"

Sir Walter Scott

SilerCityDude, to most schools it isnt a problem, but when the Coach at one time was the head of the NCAA rules committee, and he broke so many rules that they had to put him on probation, it becomes a problem. And now this is starting to look like Vice President Chaney when he shot the friend in the face, "which by the way in Indiana is a felony", they are now making the asst. coach take the blame.

SilerCityDude, it isnt a Sampson rule, it is just a rule that applies to Sampson since he was caught skirting the same rules at his previous school. But using your logic reminds me of the time I was issued a speeding ticket, my responce to the State Trooper was, why do you write me a ticket everyone speeds, his answer was I know, I just dont catch all of them, and then he ask, should he just not write any or should I write the ones I catch. Well Sampson is not very good at the phone thing, he gets caught to often.

The fact that Sampson and his staff have trimmed the illegal phone calls from the 577 made at Oklahoma to just 35 at IU is either an indication that he has been (like a smoker) cutting back on cheating or he has been successful with an alternative form of communication. Does anyone know how many emails a coach can send to a recruit? How about telegrams?

"As far as the rule, you get to call (high school seniors) twice a week. It's not that difficult." Purdue Coach Matt Painter

Of course, Purdue is an Engineering school, but they are still somewhat short on NCAA banners. Maybe Matt should take some creative math classes from Kelvin. Brother Steve could explain it better, but I'll bet Kelvin probably took some calculus classes back in college and got confused while differentiating an infinite harmonic series.