Bliss is back but Rouse is dirty

So Dave Bliss is back college coaching and Abar Rouse remains blackballed.

From this link:

"...Coach Bliss try to hide the fact that he had made illegal under-the-table payments to Dennehy to get him to come to Baylor. 

The plan cooked up by Bliss was that the coaching staff would paint Dennehy, pictured above, as a drug dealer, thereby providing an explanation for any money that Bliss had given Dennehy.

Rouse told Bliss that he wasn’t comfortable with the plan suggested by Bliss.  According to one newspaper account, Bliss showed Rouse a copy of his contract, the language of Rouse’s contract where it clearly stated that Bliss could hire and fire assistant coaches at his sole discretion was highlighted.

Rouse fearing that he might be fired, did what many employees would do in a situation in which their boss told them to engage in illegal or unethical behavior. Rouse tape-recorded his conversation with Bliss.

Bliss, on tape, told Rouse, “Our whole thing right now, we can get out of this. Reasonable doubt is there's nobody right now that can say we paid Pat Dennehy because he's dead. So what we need to do is create reasonable doubt..."

Plus:

"...In 2003, on “Outside the Lines,” Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski was quoted as saying, “If one of my assistants would tape every one of my conversation with me not knowing it, there’s no way he would be on my staff.” 

Of course, Rouse didn't tape every one of his conversations with his boss (and Krzyzewski knew that), only those after Rouse was directed to lie and impugn the dignity of a dead person. What would Krzyzewski have done?

From another article:

"Abar Rouse was one of those assistants, just 27 years old, on the job for only a few months. He didn't want to lie. He thought Bliss was crazy, that he would come to his senses. He told Bliss as much; according to Rouse, Bliss responded by asking him if he wanted to be fired. Rouse surreptitiously audiotaped his subsequent meetings with Bliss, in part to protect himself, in part because he felt a duty to the truth and to the slain Dennehy's memory. When the tapes were made public, scandal engulfed the school. Bliss already had resigned. A Baylor graduate, Rouse thought he was doing the right thing by his alma mater. He was let go, asked to drop off his basketball office keys. On an ESPN broadcast, he was condemned by Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, then-Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson -- Kelvin Sampson! -- and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski..."

Dave Zirin recently labeled Coach K a coward over another matter. Do click on the link.

Now Mike Krzyzewski is a West Point graduate. Granted, he is no longer a cadet but:

West Point's Cadet Honor Code simply reads:

"A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do."

Definitions of the tenets of the Honor Code

LYING: Cadets violate the Honor Code by lying if they deliberately deceive another by stating an untruth or by any direct form of communication to include the telling of a partial truth and the vague or ambiguous use of information or language with the intent to deceive or mislead.

CHEATING: A violation of cheating would occur if a Cadet fraudulently acted out of self-interest or assisted another to do so with the intent to gain or to give an unfair advantage. Cheating includes such acts as plagiarism (presenting someone else's ideas, words, data, or work as one's own without documentation), misrepresentation (failing to document the assistance of another in the preparation, revision, or proofreading of an assignment), and using unauthorized notes.

STEALING: The wrongful taking, obtaining, or withholding by any means from the possession of the owner or any other person any money, personal property, article, or service of value of any kind, with intent to permanently deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of the property, or to appropriate it to either their own use or the use of any person other than the owner.

TOLERATION: Cadets violate the Honor Code by tolerating if they fail to report an unresolved incident with honor implications to proper authority within a reasonable length of time. "Proper authority" includes the Commandant, the Assistant Commandant, the Director of Military Training, the Athletic Director, a tactical officer, teacher or coach. A "reasonable length of time" is the time it takes to confront the Cadet candidate suspected of the honor violation and decide whether the incident was a misunderstanding or a possible violation of the Honor Code. A reasonable length of time is usually considered not to exceed 24 hours.
To have violated the honor code, a Cadet must have lied, cheated, stolen, or attempted to do so, or tolerated such action on the part of another Cadet. The procedural element of the Honor System examines the two elements that must be present for a Cadet to have committed an honor violation: the act and the intent to commit that act. The latter does not mean intent to violate the Honor Code, but rather the intent to commit the act itself.

Three rules of thumb

Does this action attempt to deceive anyone or allow anyone to be deceived?

Does this action gain or allow the gain of privilege or advantage to which I or someone else would not otherwise be entitled?

Would I be dissatisfied by the outcome if I were on the receiving end of this action?

So Mike Krzyzewski failed back when he incorrectly framed Abar Rouse's actions and situation. He did so again recently.

Maybe it's time for an addendum to "Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life."Like 'harm others and don't make waves, fall on your sword when superiors order you to do so regardless of the command and stay silent when oppression is codified.'