Dave Bliss is at it again...smh

[BaseballUmp]

This time at a TAPPS school

Link (http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Former_BU_Coach_Dave_Bliss_Again_At_The_Center_Of_ Controversy_111008969.html)

[LH Panther Mom]

LOL @ the Head of School - it's unfair because they changed the rules? :doh:

[bigwood33]

Wow! I really thought that he might have learned SOMETHING along the way.

[NastySlot]

I thought I read a few weeks ago Allen Academy was going to drop of TAPPS.........maybe look to join SPC..........good luck with that ...SPC is like the Ivy League of Private schools in Texas.


maybe Allen Academy and Cornerstone in San Antonio can form a league.

[slingshot]

nm

[Ernest T Bass]

Link no work :(

[defense51]

:o

[BaseballUmp]

SALADO (November 29, 2010) - More than seven years after the scandal that brought Baylor University to the brink of NCAA death penalty, former basketball coach Dave Bliss is once again at the center of a controversy.

Bliss has served as dean of students, athletic director and boys’ basketball coach at Allen Academy in Bryan since May.

Last week, the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, or TAPPS, ruled that Bliss acted in violation of several TAPPS by-laws.

TAPPS director Edd Burleson told News 10 Monday that those rules deal with the eligibility of boarding students, transfer rules, and the solicitation of students.

He said that two student athletes were allowed to pay "considerably less" than similar non-athlete students.

The disparity, Burleson said, led to sanctions including Bliss’ suspension from all coaching activities and administrative duties in TAPPS for one year.

TAPPS also placed Allen Academy on a two-year probation, and it issued a public reprimand for lack of institutional control in establishing the eligibility of student athletes.

Finally, TAPPS ruled the two student athletes in question should be denied varsity eligibility, and that any contest in which the students participated would be forfeited.

Allen Academy's Head of School John P. Rouse sent out a letter to parents Monday saying because those sanctions were too harsh and unfair to the students, the school is withdrawing its membership with TAPPS.

Rouse claimed the sanctions came because TAPPS changed rules this year, which prohibits boarding school students from varsity eligibility for one year.

"We are currently in the process of applying for admission to (the Texas Christian Academic League)," Rouse said.

"When TCAL accepts our application, Allen Academy students can compete in all TCAL activities."

On Monday, Rouse said the school stands by Bliss and believes Bliss did nothing wrong.

In the letter to parents Monday, Rouse said that Coach Bliss did improperly sign a prior athletic participation form for one student who was being considered for enrollment at Allen, but was never enrolled.

Rouse wrote, "To expedite the paperwork, Mr. Bliss signed the form with Mr. Rouse's name. Although they had been discussing the student's admission process over the phone, the paper was signed without Mr. Rouse's permission and this matter has been addressed internally with Mr. Bliss."

Read The Nov. 29 Letter
Bliss left Baylor University in a swirl of controversy in after word of alleged NCAA violations surfaced in the summer of 2003 in the wake of the murder of player Patrick Dennehy and the arrest of former player Carlton Dotson.

Tape recordings made by a former assistant coach revealed that Bliss tried to persuade others to portray Dennehy as a drug dealer to cover up illegal payments to players and other NCAA violations.


Via KWTX

[sahen]

i dont understand why any school, esp a highschool would let that piece of scum coach there...talk about a horrible role model...

[Red&White_9x5]

I got family around the Llano area and supposedly there was a big article in their local paper in May or June about how this guy wanted to Llano basketball job when it was open in the spring.