Tri-Umph
05-13-2008, 04:09 PM
How could Baylor have hired a guy like Dave Bliss?
They are either stupid, lack moral character like Bliss.......or both.
I'm choosing both.....based on my experience of others connected with Baylor.
May 13, 2008
Bliss gets chance to return to coaching
Bob McClellan
Rivals.com College Basketball Editor
Does everyone really deserve a second chance? Shouldn't it depend on what you did with your first one?
If so, this is the mother of all second chances: Dave Bliss will be coaching a team this summer for Athletes in Action.
Yes, that Dave Bliss, the former Baylor coach who shamed himself and the entire coaching profession. Yes, that Athletes in Action, the Christian organization whose mission is "building spiritual movements everywhere through the platform of sport."
Eric Nelson, AIA's director of basketball, told Rivals.com that Bliss will coach an AIA team at the Jones Cup in Taiwan in July. It will be his first coaching assignment for AIA.
Maybe AIA is the best place for Bliss to begin to make amends for his role in one of the most shocking scandals in sports history. It began when Baylor (http://baylor.rivals.com/) player Patrick Dennehy, a transfer from New Mexico, disappeared. Later, his body was found near an old gravel pit near Waco, Texas; he had been shot twice in the head.
Bears teammate/roommate Carlton Dotson, a junior college transfer, would wind up confessing to Dennehy's murder. Bliss, caught on tape by first-year assistant Abar Rouse, tried to persuade other Bears players to portray Dennehy as a drug dealer. Why would he do something so heinous? Because he was trying to cover up payments he had made to Dennehy and another player that he feared were about to come to light.
In an excerpt from one of the tapes, Bliss was addressing an unidentified player: "Take your time and try to piece some things together. Just remember that anything you can remember is going to help Baylor. We can get out of this. And, see, if Dotson hadn't killed Dennehy, we wouldn't be in this jam. So we don't deserve to be in this jam. The reason we're in this jam is because of a dead guy and a guy that murdered him, and that isn't fair for you and me and Abar to be in this jam, because we didn't do anything. It's not like we created this situation. We're the victims. If you read the papers, (expletive deleted), I'm the bad guy."
The comments are chilling.
They jar the sensibilities.
They're an affront to human decency.
A college basketball coach, a veteran at that, a man in charge of young men, portraying a player who had been murdered as a drug dealer to save himself.
Bliss was forced to resign, and the NCAA hit him with a 10-year "show-cause order," meaning no member institution can hire him in any athletic role without the permission of the NCAA infractions committee until 2015. By that time, Bliss will be 72.
It seems incongruous for the coach of an AIA team to have such a sordid past. Nelson understands people may be taken aback.
"I can understand the question, and I really don't have a problem with people asking the question," Nelson said. "We have 16 teams that go out in the summer. He spoke at an event at the Final Four that we hosted. After spending a considerable amount of time with him there, we believe we've seen a life change due to his faith. There is redemption in life. I don't in any way expect people to fully understand; therefore, the questions are coming.
They are either stupid, lack moral character like Bliss.......or both.
I'm choosing both.....based on my experience of others connected with Baylor.
May 13, 2008
Bliss gets chance to return to coaching
Bob McClellan
Rivals.com College Basketball Editor
Does everyone really deserve a second chance? Shouldn't it depend on what you did with your first one?
If so, this is the mother of all second chances: Dave Bliss will be coaching a team this summer for Athletes in Action.
Yes, that Dave Bliss, the former Baylor coach who shamed himself and the entire coaching profession. Yes, that Athletes in Action, the Christian organization whose mission is "building spiritual movements everywhere through the platform of sport."
Eric Nelson, AIA's director of basketball, told Rivals.com that Bliss will coach an AIA team at the Jones Cup in Taiwan in July. It will be his first coaching assignment for AIA.
Maybe AIA is the best place for Bliss to begin to make amends for his role in one of the most shocking scandals in sports history. It began when Baylor (http://baylor.rivals.com/) player Patrick Dennehy, a transfer from New Mexico, disappeared. Later, his body was found near an old gravel pit near Waco, Texas; he had been shot twice in the head.
Bears teammate/roommate Carlton Dotson, a junior college transfer, would wind up confessing to Dennehy's murder. Bliss, caught on tape by first-year assistant Abar Rouse, tried to persuade other Bears players to portray Dennehy as a drug dealer. Why would he do something so heinous? Because he was trying to cover up payments he had made to Dennehy and another player that he feared were about to come to light.
In an excerpt from one of the tapes, Bliss was addressing an unidentified player: "Take your time and try to piece some things together. Just remember that anything you can remember is going to help Baylor. We can get out of this. And, see, if Dotson hadn't killed Dennehy, we wouldn't be in this jam. So we don't deserve to be in this jam. The reason we're in this jam is because of a dead guy and a guy that murdered him, and that isn't fair for you and me and Abar to be in this jam, because we didn't do anything. It's not like we created this situation. We're the victims. If you read the papers, (expletive deleted), I'm the bad guy."
The comments are chilling.
They jar the sensibilities.
They're an affront to human decency.
A college basketball coach, a veteran at that, a man in charge of young men, portraying a player who had been murdered as a drug dealer to save himself.
Bliss was forced to resign, and the NCAA hit him with a 10-year "show-cause order," meaning no member institution can hire him in any athletic role without the permission of the NCAA infractions committee until 2015. By that time, Bliss will be 72.
It seems incongruous for the coach of an AIA team to have such a sordid past. Nelson understands people may be taken aback.
"I can understand the question, and I really don't have a problem with people asking the question," Nelson said. "We have 16 teams that go out in the summer. He spoke at an event at the Final Four that we hosted. After spending a considerable amount of time with him there, we believe we've seen a life change due to his faith. There is redemption in life. I don't in any way expect people to fully understand; therefore, the questions are coming.