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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – A source close to the coaching staff at Indiana University said on Wednesday that Kelvin Sampson phoned university president Michael McRobbie 577 times to submit his resignation and tried to conceal all but one of those calls.

While Indiana University guidelines state that any employee of the university make only one phone call for the purpose of resignation, Sampson is purported to have drastically broken those rules.

Athletic Director Rick Greenspan ran an investigation that reportedly finds Sampson in violation of university policies and ethical standards. According to an Indiana University official, who wished to be unidentified, Sampson provided fake and deceptive information to university investigators and failed to promote the high ethical standards required of the coaching position.

“If there is some kind of issue here, having an ethics problem in a coaching position is something new to us,” said McRobbie. “In the history of Indiana University athletics, our coaches have been held to the highest standard of honesty and appropriate behavior.”

If Sampson is found to have participated in any kind of inappropriate resigning, it is likely the university will ask him to resign as early as this weekend.

Such problems are not new to Sampson, who faced allegations of resignation violations from Oklahoma University, the school he left to take the Indiana job. Before leaving Oklahoma, Sampson was accused of making as many as 100 impermissible calls to Oklahoma University officials in an attempt to discuss resigning with them.