ISU Hires New Director of Basketball Operations

[tornado]

John Marczak was hired by ISU on Tuesday, working just previously at Grayson County College (Dennison, TX) as an
assistant coach.

Prior to that, Marczak was the Director of Basketball Operations at
Baylor University under Dave Bliss.
He lost his job there in 2003 when the University cleaned house in the midst of the Carlton Dotson-murder scandal.
One little known fact that is not part of any of the press releases however,
is that John Marczak is Dave Bliss' nephew.

Another of John's credentials is that he was named on College Insider's "Colege Basketball's 50 Most Eligible Bachelors" List while at Baylor.

https://www.collegeinsider.com/the50/john_marczak.html

[WaylonJ]

The Pantagraph has coverage of this addition by Porter Moser, but it is a surprisingly
bad reprint of exactly what's in the cstv coverage.
If this guy Marczak was a part of one of the worst college basketball programs ever, then why is ISU hiring the guy?

[collegehoopjunkie]

Here's an article about Kansas' date with the NCAA infractions committe today, but it
has a recap of all the dirt that was uncovered at Baylor.

"An investigation into the 2003 shooting death of Bears forward Patrick Dennehy ???‚¬??? his teammate, Carlton Dotson, was convicted of the murder ???‚¬??? eventually uncovered much wrongdoing by Bliss.

Among the discoveries were that Bliss provided recruiting inducements ???‚¬??? including cash ???‚¬??? to 10 prospects. He also admitted to using his own money to pay the tuition of two players and to failing to report the results of his players???‚¬?„? drug tests to the school???‚¬?„?s judicial services office. It was also determined that Bliss lied about the violations when initially questioned by NCAA investigators.

So plentiful were the charges against Baylor that its meeting with the Infractions Committee lasted two days.

In Baylor???‚¬?„?s case, the NCAA deemed the Bears???‚¬?„? athletic department exhibited both a lack of institutional control and a failure to monitor. Baylor was placed on five years???‚¬?„? probation, scholarships in the men???‚¬?„?s basketball program were reduced and, in an unprecedented move, the Bears were banned from nonconference play in 2005-06.

Baylor was one step away from becoming just the second program in NCAA history to receive the death penalty, which would???‚¬?„?ve called for the banishment of the program altogether. SMU???‚¬?„?s football program got that sentence back in 1987.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/colleges/university_of_kansas/15261635.htm