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Here's some info on Sampson:
He was a grad assistant for one year at Michigan State under Jud Healthcote. Then to MT Tech as an assistant one year, and 4 years as head coach. Won 3 conference championships.
"He’d be the assistant to Fred Paulsen [at Tech] and he was ready to get started.
There was a catch, though. The pay for the job was $1,000.
Not per month. Total.
“They were going to give me $100 a month for 10 months,” Kelvin says, laughing. “The math wasn’t good.”
"In addition to being the assistant coach of the university’s basketball team, he also became manager of The Greens, an apartment complex for students on campus."
“My pay went from $1,000 to $11,000 that day, and we got to live there rent-free,” Kelvin said. “That was a big day, biggest raise percentage I ever got, I think.”
[While in Montana, he never left The Greens. They had their kids, or at least one, when they were at the The Greens.]
“As long as we were there, I was still getting those apartments cleaned up,” he said.
"He was in charge of getting people moved in and cleaning up the apartments and preparing them for new tenants when people moved out."
“We had a system,” Kelvin said. “I would vacuum and steam the carpets and Karen would take the kitchen. You wouldn’t believe how gross some of the refrigerators were when people moved out. I would clean the toilets and we would get the place ready for the next residents.”
"Kelvin was also in charge of keeping the peace among the residents."
“I have a lot of really great memories from Montana Tech. I really learned to coach my own team, learned to build a program and learned to deal with a lot of personalities. It was a special time.”
www.nytimes.com
[Sampson is Native American and a tribal member. Both of his parents were Native American. He dad was a coach.]
"Sampson faced racism firsthand in North Carolina. Sampson was born in the Lumbee Tribe in Pembroke, North Carolina. The tribe, he said, “fought prejudice and racism our entire lives.”
"Sampson’s father, John Willie Sampson, taught him about the struggle for justice and he had not insulated him from bigotry."
“He was a rock,” Sampson said, “and a foundation piece for that community. My dad’s reputation was somebody that you looked up to. He was The Coach. He was a pretty good person to have as a role model and a hero.”
"In 1958, when Sampson was 3, his father was one of 500 Lumbees who drove the Ku Klux Klan out of Maxton, North Carolina. There is a plaque that commemorates the Battle of Hayes Pond.
“The KKK was huge in that area,” Sampson told reporters Friday afternoon during a Zoom conference call. “That’s a vivid, vivid memory, very clear memory for me.”
"Sampson was captain of the basketball team at Pembroke High School and played for his father. As a successful high school coach, Sampson’s father endured the humiliation of segregation."
“I remember going to high school clinics with him and all the minority coaches had to sit upstairs in metal folding chairs. All the white coaches sat down in the balcony in the theater chairs. I didn’t think much of it. That’s just the way it was in the mid-1960s.”
"Perhaps this is why Sampson identifies with the plight of African American coaches and became active in the Black Coaches Association. “I always identified with the brothers — and still do,” he said."
"Besides coaching, his father sold World Book Encyclopedias, life insurance, taught driver’s education and “he worked in a tobacco market.”
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[I was told that his kids, when asked where they are from, say Butte MT.]
He was a grad assistant for one year at Michigan State under Jud Healthcote. Then to MT Tech as an assistant one year, and 4 years as head coach. Won 3 conference championships.
"He’d be the assistant to Fred Paulsen [at Tech] and he was ready to get started.
There was a catch, though. The pay for the job was $1,000.
Not per month. Total.
“They were going to give me $100 a month for 10 months,” Kelvin says, laughing. “The math wasn’t good.”
"In addition to being the assistant coach of the university’s basketball team, he also became manager of The Greens, an apartment complex for students on campus."
“My pay went from $1,000 to $11,000 that day, and we got to live there rent-free,” Kelvin said. “That was a big day, biggest raise percentage I ever got, I think.”
[While in Montana, he never left The Greens. They had their kids, or at least one, when they were at the The Greens.]
“As long as we were there, I was still getting those apartments cleaned up,” he said.
"He was in charge of getting people moved in and cleaning up the apartments and preparing them for new tenants when people moved out."
“We had a system,” Kelvin said. “I would vacuum and steam the carpets and Karen would take the kitchen. You wouldn’t believe how gross some of the refrigerators were when people moved out. I would clean the toilets and we would get the place ready for the next residents.”
"Kelvin was also in charge of keeping the peace among the residents."
“I have a lot of really great memories from Montana Tech. I really learned to coach my own team, learned to build a program and learned to deal with a lot of personalities. It was a special time.”
Basketball, the dungeon and cleaning toilets: Kelvin Sampson’s Montana Tech days
Before becoming a head coach and athletic director, Sampson managed a student apartment complex at the university.
www.nytimes.com
[Sampson is Native American and a tribal member. Both of his parents were Native American. He dad was a coach.]
"Sampson faced racism firsthand in North Carolina. Sampson was born in the Lumbee Tribe in Pembroke, North Carolina. The tribe, he said, “fought prejudice and racism our entire lives.”
"Sampson’s father, John Willie Sampson, taught him about the struggle for justice and he had not insulated him from bigotry."
“He was a rock,” Sampson said, “and a foundation piece for that community. My dad’s reputation was somebody that you looked up to. He was The Coach. He was a pretty good person to have as a role model and a hero.”
"In 1958, when Sampson was 3, his father was one of 500 Lumbees who drove the Ku Klux Klan out of Maxton, North Carolina. There is a plaque that commemorates the Battle of Hayes Pond.
“The KKK was huge in that area,” Sampson told reporters Friday afternoon during a Zoom conference call. “That’s a vivid, vivid memory, very clear memory for me.”
"Sampson was captain of the basketball team at Pembroke High School and played for his father. As a successful high school coach, Sampson’s father endured the humiliation of segregation."
“I remember going to high school clinics with him and all the minority coaches had to sit upstairs in metal folding chairs. All the white coaches sat down in the balcony in the theater chairs. I didn’t think much of it. That’s just the way it was in the mid-1960s.”
"Perhaps this is why Sampson identifies with the plight of African American coaches and became active in the Black Coaches Association. “I always identified with the brothers — and still do,” he said."
"Besides coaching, his father sold World Book Encyclopedias, life insurance, taught driver’s education and “he worked in a tobacco market.”
Kelvin Sampson recalls racism he fought growing up in North Carolina
INDIANAPOLIS — I’ve always been a fan of Houston head men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson. The same way I was a fan of John Thompson, John Chaney, Nolan Rich…
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[I was told that his kids, when asked where they are from, say Butte MT.]
