VideoEagle

I doubt Baylor’s team this year will be better than an intramural team.

I’m not sure that would solve any problems. It appears the Bliss was the source of most of the direct problems. Of course, the AD (what’shisname) either gave tacit approval or was completely derelict in his duties as a supervisor. I’m curious about what’s going to happen to Abar Rouse, the assistant coach who secretly taped Bliss. While ethically, Rouse is a hero, assistant coaches who turn on their head coaches probably have a hard time finding jobs. BTW, you something had to be rotten before the taping to make Rouse want to make those secret recordings to cover his own butt. But shutting down the program for a year or two mostly hurts the other players on the team. It kills recruiting for a several years, although I really think SMU’s self imposed recruiting limits hurt more than the death penalty itself. This has got to hurt Baylor’s ongoing capital campaign.

I don’t think we want someone of Bliss’ ilk. It’s coming out that he was working on covering up the phoney tuition scheme by claiming Donnelly was a drug dealer, when Bliss knew that was not true. How low can one sink!

Looks like things are getting much, much worse for Dave Bliss. An article in the FWST for Saturday shows that Bliss was working on a cover up for his tuition deal. Bliss appears to have wanted to spread the word the Donnelly was involved in drug dealing to pay his tuition. Here’s the link!

I grew up in Edinburg and can tell you it's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there! It's about a 10 hour drive if you stay 70 or under. You can fly into McAllen on American or Harlingen on Southwest. Harlingen about the same distance as Denton to DFW and a little closer than Denton to Love Field. You can usually get a better car rental in Harlingen. UTPA does have a strong basketball tradition. Back when I was in school, Abe Lemmons was the coach. Also was a strong baseball school.

I had lunch with Chuck on Thursday. He has some good things to say. I signed up! By the way, it's Chuck Vinson, not Benson. I kept wanting to say "Carl Vinson," thinking of the aircraft carrier. It turns out the aircraft carrier is named for Chuck's great-uncle.