Trooper Taylor speaks
Hey everyone. Trooper Taylor, one of the Tigers' assistant coaches, spent 35 minutes speaking about a variety of topics. Here is an overview of the most intriguing things I heard.
- NEW @ 4:45 p.m. On recruiting: "I like the ones that my wife can pick out. That's pretty good, you know, when she can put the tape on and say, 'Sign him, baby.' We're good."
- On how difficult recruiting was: "I used to have an afro."
- On DeAngelo Benton: "You don't go to bed a circle and wake up a square. If you can play ball, you can play ball."
- He said Benton is fully qualified and will report to campus this summer.
- He said Curtis Luper is the team's recruiting coordinator.
- He said as assistant head coach, he handles team matters when head coach Gene Chizik is away. Taylor indicated that Chizik already has brought in outside experts to help Taylor (and perhaps other coaches) with their leadership and interview skills. Not media interviews. I think he meant job interviews.
- He said Chizik, who projects an all-business aura, isn't duplicitous. He really is all-business, even behind closed doors.
- He apparently turned down other offers, including a coordinator job, to work at Auburn. His primary Auburn contact was fellow assistant Curtis Luper, who already knew Chizik from his days at Stephen F. Austin. Luper warmed Taylor to the Auburn idea and Chizik took it from there.
- He wants to be a head coach within five years.
- He doesn't seem real geeked about recruits who wait until after NSD to make a decision. He's OK with the general concept, but clarified his position with an anecdote. Taylor said each player is the CEO of his own career and has vice presidents (ie family members or school/athletic contacts) who help. Once "other members of the board get in there," the situation can get murky.
- Asked to assess his current players, Taylor's first dose of praise went to Montez Billings.
- He seemed unsure about what to expect from PPL ... and when.
41 Comments:
Doh! I wasn't signed in. Hey DL!
WHazz up.... I like Troop.
Trooper speaks, we listen.
I hope we can keep him for 5 years; then I hope his HC gig isn't in the SEC.
Trooper for coach-in-waiting!
Thanks, Jay G.
Again, you have given the Hotties a good perception of what is going on in the loveliest village.
OK what is PPL?
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philip pierre louis
Okay, this has just been bothering me so I'm putting it out there. Pardon my ignorance (I have it in abundance) if it's foolish, but, why do I regularly see "Comment deleted..."? Is someone really posting something and then deleting it shortly afterwards or are they deleted for some egregious offense of our well-established rules of decorum here?
Inquiring mind wants to know.
PPL had bad ACL opening kickoff of '08
Yea, him.
I knew there was a DOH.. in my future...
Thanks THT
Gotta go talk with Ted Roof Rusted now.
I'll check back in 30 minutes or so.
i delete mine occasionally when i realized how stupid a comment I made. Other times JGT will delete comments that don't abide by the rules. But his deletions are completely vaporized, i.e. no remnant whatsoever.
Gatiger.... I delete a comment many times because I hit enter twice and post the same message twice.
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"Deleting" is my specialty
Gatiger.... I delete a comment many times because I hit enter twice and post the same message twice.
Although i prefer to call it murdering...watch
Gatiger.... I delete a comment many times because I hit enter twice and post the same message twice.
Yes, well played Gov.
Gatiger.... I delete a comment many times because I hit enter twice and post the same message twice.
Gatiger.... I delete a comment many times because I hit enter twice and post the same message twice.
Wait...what?
I'm leaving. call me when taylor arrives.
J-Z ...
Trooper waits for no one.
I hate it when I double post...
Not as much as the rest of us hate it, FSJ, you Bammer.
Just kidding ... not about the Bammer part.
You are a Bammer. Unless you decide to be cleansed of your Crimson sin.
The great Billy Joel said that he would "rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints...The sinners are much more fun."
Sinners are much more fun,
But ol' Jet's packin' a gun!
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
Come out Virginia...
Some basic comments from Ted Roof Rusted are up. I'll come back with more quotes -- for him and Taylor -- around 4:30 CST.
I had always wondered why it was a big deal for Billy Joel to walk through Bedford-Stuy alone. Evidently it is/was a very shady part of Brooklyn. Maybe I was the only one that didn't know.
good thing he had his motorcycle to get him through the rain quickly.
tough dude that Billy Joel, eh?
Calling him "Ted Roof Rusted" has me singing "Love sacks, baby love sacks."
A great story about Trooper and the impression Coach Chizik made on a cleaning lady years back at Auburn. A good read I thought and makes you think Chizik is a class act.
Tigercowboy, I didn't include that tangent for space concerns.
Yes, it was an interesting tale.
Super work Jay. I hope we can hang onto Trooper until he finds a really good HC job.
Since I missed the TV show discussion earlier;
Smallville is the show the family watches together. The treatment of Lex has been great since the start. We keep hoping for Lana to get permanently killed off.
Big Bang is my show. I know those guys. I work with them. I'm one of them.
I was worried that Taylor might want to be a HC soon, within 5 years was a bit of a surprise. Maybe he can wait 7-8 if he is an OC???
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