re: Trooper Taylor remains unemployed

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Man, I never really understood all the trooper hate. The guy waved a towel on the sideline? BFD.

I have heard folks say he was dirty recruiting, but when has that been documented even down to a specific player?

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I'm not sure he was such a polarizing figure within the SEC fans when he coached at Tennessee. If he was, I can't remember it.

He is an oddity on the sideline, he appears unprofessional to some people with the towel waving/backwards hat/chumming it up with the players, etc. But I think that's just his personality, IDK.

I remember hearing some questionable recruiting rumors back in his Tulane days. So those probably carried over throughout his career.

The Cecil Newton stuff hit the fan, the NCAA investigation, the BigCat, the Memphis kid with the grade issues, etc. AU didn't even get sniffed by the NCAA the whole time Tubs was there. Then all of the sudden there were multiple NCAA issues that were pretty high profile (Newton) and folks started to look at the main recruiters.