DAVE BLISS SHOULD NEVER COACH AGAIN

Coaches are human. They, like all of us other mortals, have sinned and come
up short.

Drinking, smoking, gambling and fooling around - hey, most us can understand
that kind of sinning. It cost coaches like Larry Eustachy, Mike Price and
Rick

Neuheisel some high-paying jobs, but all three will soon find steady
employment somewhere else.

Boys will be boys.

All will be forgiven.

But the Dave Bliss story is a whole different ballgame.

This is not "boys will be boys." It's snakes will be snakes.

Patrick Dennehy's killer stands a better chance getting a coaching job than
Dave Bliss.

The used-to-be Baylor basketball coach deserves the hottest spot in hell for
what he did - slander a dead kid in order to save his own rotten, stinking,
crooked butt.

The hero in this story is a guy many of us know.

Abar Rouse worked as a trainer for the Midwestern State basketball team back
when Gerald Stockton was the head coach and then came back and served as a
graduate assistant under Jeff Ray in the 1997-98 season.

Rouse had just joined the Baylor basketball staff on June 1. Two weeks later
was the last time anyone saw Dennehy alive, and the story just kept
snowballing into a murder mystery that intrigued a whole nation this summer.

The Bliss deal was just a nasty sidebar.

The Baylor coach had given Dennehy $7,000 for tuition and $2,000 for down
payment on an SUV. He knew that the murder mystery would have reporters
questioning how a college kid could come up with that kind of money.

Bliss reportedly threatened to fire Rouse if he didn't go along with a
scheme that would implicate the dead player as a drug dealer. Reportedly on
the advice of a lawyer, Rouse taped a conversation in which Bliss tried to
get his players to lie that Dennehy sold drugs to pay for his tuition.

That tape was given to Baylor officials and the NCAA.

Bliss quickly resigned.

Some are now saying that Rouse violated the so-called "code" of his
profession that says that coaches do not turn in other coaches. That will
hurt him his chances to finding a job.

Bull you-know-what!

Athletic directors and head coaches should be lining up to offer Abar Rouse
a job. He's an honest young man who did what was right.

He risked losing the best coaching job he had ever had to save his
integrity.

Abar Rouse is the good guy here. Dave Bliss is the snake.