The Government, A Treadmill, & Kelvin Sampson
I know what a combination. The first part of this will be about the government and a treadmill. You may ask “what’s the connection there”? Well here is the story. Before my heart transplant I was selected to participate in a government clinical trial for people who feel under a certain criteria with congestive heart failure and the benefit of cardiac rehab, and whether Medicare should help pay for this or not. For my participation in this clinical trial was, that I would receive a free treadmill. I was to have completed 32 sessions for this to happen. Well I only completed about 6 sessions, and then I had a heart transplant. I remember lying in my hospital bed one day thinking “no more congestive heart failure, means no treadmill”. Now don’t get me wrong I much rather have a new heart than a free treadmill. So I told my exercise nurse that now with a new heart I was out of the program. Well to make a long story short she was able to keep me in the program and the cardiac rehab I have been doing here since my transplant went toward the sessions I needed to get this treadmill. So on Valentine’s Day a big semi rolls up in front of the house with this new treadmill. Yesterday my son and I put it together. Now this is what I love about the government. They can spend thousands on new toilet seats and nonsense like that. I thought that I was going to get a pretty decent quality treadmill. Was I wrong! I have never heard of this brand, and the quality of the treadmill is really suspect. But I am not complaining just making an observation. It looks like we may get a year or two use out of it and hey it was free.
Ok Kelvin Sampson.
As much as I have enjoyed watching IU this year and see their success for a change, I can’t help be disappointed for guys like DJ White and Eric Gordon. If Sampson is found to have violated these rules then I think Sampson should be fired as well as the athletic director Greenspan. He knew in hiring Sampson he was hiring a coach with a lot of baggage. It was a bad hire from the start. I do not think however that IU should be banned from post season play. Why penalize the players who have worked hard for the actions of their coach? If the players violated NCAA rules then yes they should be banned from post-season play. But again as I said why make them suffer because of their coach. Not that I am a big Bobby Knight fan or that I would like to see him come back to IU which would be very doubtful. I still think the man is a genius as a basketball coach is concerned. He is a purest as to how the game should be played. And say what you want about Knight in 29 years he has not broken any NCAA rules….yes a chair or two but that about itJ. He is had one of the highest graduation rates among his players and has done great things in the community as well. But his behavior on and off the court has diminished those facts. Well that’s my ramble for the day. I hope the header now makes sense.
