Are you ready for a quick, pain-free NCAA resolution on the latest Kelvin Sampson phone indiscretion? Brace yourself. There’s no timetable for when the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions will make a decision on the Indiana basketball coach.

Should Hoosier fans worry?

You be the judge.

Stacey Osburn, NCAA associate director for public and media relations, said the committee has received the report and “Will be reviewing it in the near future. As far as the timing (of a decision), we haven’t determined that yet.”

The NCAA could decide that Indiana’s self-imposed penalties – Sampson losing a $500,000 bonus, a loss of one scholarship and assistant coach Rob Senderoff forfeiting a bonus and a raise, plus banning him from calling recruits or recruiting off campus for one year – are sufficient. Or, it could add additional sanctions.

“Penalties are assessed based on individual situations and violations,” Osburn said. “The committee tries to fit the punishment with the crime. There’s not a hard and fast rule.”

There are two issues to consider. First, Sampson participated in 10 unauthorized three-way calls along with Senderoff and recruits. That violated his year-long sanction for making 577 improper phone calls while at Oklahoma. He said he didn’t know nine of them were three-way calls. The other, well, maybe he hoped no one would notice.

Second, Hoosier assistant coaches made 35 undocumented calls that exceeded NCAA limits for calling recruits. That’s the same problem, only fewer calls, that got Sampson in trouble at Oklahoma.

And if the NCAA sees a pattern in behavior in that, well, things could get worse before they get better.

IU officials discovered the problem last July during an internal audit by the compliance department. An Indianapolis law firm, Ice Miller, conducted a two-month investigation.

IU officials called the 35 calls a “secondary violation,” but they don’t make the final decision. The Committee on Infractions does.

“A secondary violation is if it is inadvertent in nature or if it doesn’t represent a significant competitive advantage,” Osburn said. “A lot of these are self-reported. By the time they are reported to us, the school already has corrected the issue, which is the main outcome we’re looking for. We want to make sure it’s been corrected and a process put in place to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”

Osburn said that secondary violations can become a major violation if there are many of them. She added that there’s no guideline on how many calls it takes to go from a secondary to a major violation.

“The enforcement staff and the committee looks at each situation and any mitigating circumstances, and then determines the penalties,” she said.

IU officials said they hope the NCAA looks favorably on the fact the university self reported the problem and sanctioned the basketball program. Still, that doesn’t guarantee more penalties aren’t coming.

“The committee looks at whether it’s self reported, whether the school cooperated in any investigation, whether this is a pattern of behavior, if there was a failure to monitor the situation, if a system is in place at the institutional level to catch and correct problems,” Osburn said.

IU’s system caught the problems. Corrections presumably will prevent future ones, although we’ve heard that before.

The key point is pattern of behavior. How the NCAA views that will determine whether this ends in Hoosier relief, or misery.