He talked to us about everything from his playing days facing off with Boston Celtics big man Al Horford, trying to recruit Derrick Favors to the University of Georgia, the player developmental staff, and who will defend Jayson Tatum tonight. “Who knows what stories would have been spun which way? is now in charge of mentoring young men again.The Oklahoma City Thunder media met with the acting head ball coach, and it was a joy to talk with Bliss. “It makes it crystal clear to me that I had those tapes,” Rouse said. Rouse remains at peace with himself and what he did. Rouse was basically blackballed from the coaching profession after he gave the tapes to investigative reporter Danny Robbins who published their contents. There is far more damaging things we could have in the film that we did not.”īliss says during the film, “What I did was, I got in the mud with the pigs. “I feel like that is the real Dave the audience can see. I spent a lot of time telling him, ‘Don’t lie.’ “I was very, very honest with Dave and open with him. “If we didn’t show that, we were going to be a mouthpiece for Dave’s redemption story …,” said the Austin-based filmmaker. Kondelis was asked if he had any reservations about using the passages when Bliss believed they were off-camera. “There were people who said they saw him smoke marijuana,” Fuller said in the film, “but selling drugs? No.” “Bob Fuller thinks that got the money from dealing drugs,” Bliss says on the tapes. He was rampant and all the players knew it.” But in the film he says, “That’s why the police never went after me with a felony. That’s when I told them about the talking points, ‘You guys just tell these investigators what you know.’”īliss’ role in the scandal has always portrayed as a cover-up. The reason I jumped on it I wanted the players to come in. Kondelis went on to ask: “So they were thinking that was the case with Patrick so you just jumped on the bandwagon?”īliss: “I jumped on that bandwagon. “When I heard was chasing it I just dovetailed my excuse right in with him,” Bliss said. It’s not for a lot of money or anything like it was easier to make it go away …”īliss would not elaborate on that statement Friday with CBS Sports.īliss says he believed Dennehy was, in reality, selling drugs because Underwood “was chasing it.” Underwood is now the president at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Still believing his comments aren’t for the camera, Bliss adds, “I apologize. I’m going to knock his teeth in.”īliss says at one point, “Again, this isn’t right.
I don’t care how old he is, I don’t care how weak I am. That would be news to Brian Brabazon, Dennehy’s stepfather, who says of Bliss in the film, “If I ever meet him in public. But that’s why but you’ll never be able to use it.”īliss then acts out how Dennehy greeted visitors at his apartment and sold them drugs. Kondelis: “No I never found that out at all.”īliss: “I know but I’m telling you. Kondelis then says: “Patrick Dennehy was selling drugs?
“They thought paid for his scholarship because he was selling drugs because you know – this is off camera – he was selling drugs,” Bliss tells Kondelis during a sit-down interview in the film. I knew that it would be important for the NCAA investigation but also for the legal investigation.” “It took everything I had to maintain my composure. “The words are clear in my ears,” Rouse told CBS Sports. In them Bliss is heard coercing Rouse and players into the narrative about Dennehy to create “reasonable doubt” for investigators. The case broke in 2003 after Rouse secretly taped conversations with Bliss.