This really isn’t a surprise. If an assistant wants to eventually become a head coach, he is best served by working for a couple different coaches. Even better when you go to become an assistant on a team that lost the national championship in OT. Chris Dokish and Pittsburgh Sports Report have sent word that Orlando Antigua is heading to Memphis.
Pitt assistant and former player Orlando Antigua has accepted an assistant coaching position under John Calipari at Memphis.
He will join the Tigers staff pending approval by the school president and Board of Regents, which should happen very soon, but may delay an official announcement until Monday.
The Bronx native will be recruiting against his former team in New York once he officially starts.
Senderoff, who facilitated the three-way calls, said he didn’t remember reading an e-mail from an IU administrator June 13, 2006, stating the NCAA’s clarification that three-way calls were not allowed. Sampson acknowledged seeing the clarification but said he thought the subsequent three-way calls at issue were two-way calls.
In the case summary, the NCAA enforcement staff flatly challenges Sampson’s claim, citing several interviews with recruits.
Recruit DeJuan Blair, now a player at Pittsburgh, told an NCAA investigator he was “100 percent” sure he was on the phone with Sampson and Senderoff at the same time.
“If coach Sampson said something funny, coach Senderoff would laugh; or he would ask a question and coach Senderoff would answer; or coach Senderoff would ask a question and he would answer about Indiana,” Blair said.
