As the fallout continues to spread from Dave Bliss' shocking orchestration of a cover-up evolving out of Patrick Dennehy's murder, everyone from Dennehy's stepfather to Baylor University's top officials is expressing outrage.

"I knew Bliss was hiding something, but I didn't know he was going to these lengths," Brian Brabazon, Dennehy's stepfather, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Saturday's editions. "God, what was he thinking?

"You know, I don't even know what I would say to him. All I can think right now is that I would like to grab the guy by the shirt collar and throw him up against the wall."

Baylor assistant basketball coach Abar Rouse secretly recorded Bliss as he talked about the scheme to mislead investigators. On the tapes, Bliss coached some players on what to say to Baylor's investigative committee looking into possible NCAA rule violations. He also discussed with one player what he could tell a police investigator. Bliss says at one point, "What we have to create here is drugs," according to the paper.

Rouse played the tapes Friday for the Baylor committee investigating the basketball program and a representative of the NCAA.

Baylor president Robert B. Sloan, in a statement released Saturday, said the cover-up revelations "are a sobering and disturbing development in an already tragic story. Dave Bliss' attempts to conceal from investigators the truth about improprieties in our men's basketball program represent a profound betrayal of the trust that Baylor University and our players placed in him.

"I am outraged not only by his own deception, but his efforts to enlist players and assistant coaches in this scheme."

Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane Jr., chairman of Baylor's Board of Regents and a member of the search committee that brough Bliss to Baylor, also released a statement Saturday in which he described "a huge sense of betrayal and anger about the actions taken by the former men's basketball coach. This summer the university has characterized the series of events in the men's basketball program as unimaginable and unbelievable.

"I have had discussions this morning with regents, alumni, our leadership team and our legal team. I can tell you that in addition to anger, they are crushed, disappointed and absolutely perplexed regarding these new revelations."

Jim Turner, CEO of Dr. Pepper and a Baylor regent who is leading the search for a new basketball coach, would not comment directly about the tapes, nor would athletics director Tom Stanton, according to the Star-Telegram, but other members of Baylor's administration and investigation team were as shocked as Brabazon when they heard what Bliss had said.

"Maybe the worst of this is an authority figure putting a kid in that position," said William Underwood, a member of the Baylor committee investigating possible NCAA violations in the basketball program.

"I felt that last Friday [ Aug. 8], Bliss showed real integrity," Underwood told the Star-Telegram. "He came clean with what he had done, and as bad as that was, I had positive feelings that now we knew what happened. I can't tell you how deep my disappointment is [with the latest revelations]."

Bliss resigned Aug. 8 after a three-week internal investigation by Baylor found that improper payments had been made to two basketball players. Sloan would not identify the players, but Dennehy's parents said they did not pay his $7,000 tuition and their son did not have any means of paying it.

After the investigation into Dennehy's disappearance began and the first allegations about improper payments and drug use surfaced, Bliss on more than one occasion talked about the integrity of his basketball programs and that he had never been cited for an NCAA violation in 30 years.

After the revelations surfaced, Brabazon almost could not believe the lurid tale and the gall of the coach who, just last week, had attended Dennehy's funeral services in San Jose, Calif.

"You know, that guy shook my hand at Patrick's memorial and I thanked him for coming," Brabazon said. "He's just a two-faced, bald-ass liar."

Sloan said in his statement Saturday that questions still remain about the program, and that the investigation will continue "until we are satisfied that a thorough and credible examination of our men's basketball program has been completed. We are committed to restoring trust and integrity in our basketball program and look forward to competing this fall in a manner that is consistent with the values of this university."

Added McLane: "Is this the end of stunning revelations? I hope so. I don't know. All I can tell you is that the investigative committee and the university's leadership are resolute that we will get the answers, and we won't rest until we do."