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After the dust settled in the NCAA's investigations of Kelvin Sampson, the former coach of Indiana and Oklahoma was virtually banned for five years from coaching college basketball.

It's not a hard-and-fast ban, but the process schools would have to go through to hire Sampson make it likely not worth the effort -- especially considering the baggage he already carries.

Today, the Indianapolis Star reported that Sampson is appealing his punishment. As you can expect, the grounds for appeal are quite lame, and don't appear to have much chance to stick.

Former Indiana basketball assistant Jeff Meyer says he's been cleared of any major violations in the NCAA's investigation into the program's infractions under former head coach Kelvin Sampson.

Meyer admits that he broke NCAA rules, but he said he did so only a few times, and only because of a misunderstanding of those rules. A statement he released said:

"In my nearly 30 years of coaching college basketball, I have always tried to do my work well and to do good work within the NCAA rules. ... I acknowledge making unintentional, isolated mistakes, which the Committee found to be secondary in nature. I take personal responsibility for my independent actions. If I have an opportunity to continue my coaching career, I will be better prepared to mentor student athletes and to work with a compliance staff as a result of the lessons I learned from this painful experience."

The NCAA is expected to announce sanctions against Indiana, Sampson and former assistant Rob Senderoff next month.