{"id":1715,"date":"2011-11-09T17:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T22:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/returntorome\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T01:11:58","slug":"dukes-coach-k-on-uncompromising-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/returntorome\/2011\/11\/dukes-coach-k-on-uncompromising-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke’s Coach K on uncompromising morality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In an article about the Penn State case, ESPN reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Paterno\u2019s requirement that his players not just achieve success but adhere to a moral code, that they win with honor, transcended his sport. Mike Krzyzewski, the Duke basketball coach, said in June for an ESPN special on Paterno: \u201cValues are never compromised. That\u2019s the bottom line.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, when a very courageous assistant coach at Baylor, Abar Rouse, had\u00a0surreptitiously audio-taped his superior, disgraced head basketball coach Dave Bliss, telling Rouse of his plan to falsely depict a murdered Baylor player as a drug dealer so that \u00a0Bliss\u2019 under-the-table payments to the player were not exposed to NCAA scrutiny, this is what ESPN reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Many coaches, including Hall of Famers Jim Boeheim and Mike Krzyzewski, have said that Rouse had crossed the line. \u201cIf one of my assistants would tape every one of my conversations with me not knowing it, there\u2019s no way he would be on my staff,\u201d Krzyzewski told \u201cOutside the Lines\u201d in 2003.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If a sainted coach like Krzyzewski\u00a0can see only disloyalty, and not heroism, in Rouse\u2019s catching and turning in Dave Bliss for defaming a murder victim for whom Bliss had special care as the young man\u2019s head coach, is the harboring of a child rapist by Penn State University not so unimaginable? \u201cValues are never compromised\u201d? What a pile of horsesh*t.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an article about the Penn State case, ESPN reports: Paterno\u2019s requirement that his players not just achieve success but adhere to a moral code, that they win with honor, transcended his sport. Mike Krzyzewski, the Duke basketball coach, said in June for an ESPN special on Paterno: \u201cValues are never compromised. 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