Mike Taylor Arrested (Twice Now)

[ISUFan22]

Doesn't stuff like this happen at every apartment complex every weekend in college towns?

Does that suddenly make it ok? Heck...people are murdered every day. Things are stolen every day. Each day someone is charged with an OWI.

Just because it happens frequently does not justify the action. I'm quite sick of that.

No, I'm not comparing Mike to a murderer. I'm just saying, the frequency of the crime should have little to no impact on its merit.

The old "everyone else is doing it" won't hold up in court and it had better not hold up in the "court" of Pollard/G-Mac.

 

[Cyfan322]

I can't think of any UNI BB players getting into trouble. UNI Football yes, but BB no.

Didn't Eric Coleman have a brush with the law while McD was there?

 

[BryceC]

Do you have a link for that Doofus?

 

[C.John]

Here is a link to the simple case search in WI. LINK

 

[doofus_king]

http://tinyurl.com/2lwgfe

 

[lomashad]

Well, it happened on Feb. 4th, so Coach Mc D probably knew about it shortly after. Our season didn't end till March. I don't know if that tells us about Greg's style of discipline or not, though it should have at least been handled from a discipline standpoint before now if he did know!

 

[benjay]

If the allegations are true and Taylor is convicted, I would be quite surprised if McDermott did not kick him off the team.

 

[TykeClone]

Honorable Mention: Adam Haluska (treason)

But isn't treason a capital offense?

 

[Bwalk]

Sure doesn't sound like Wisconsin treats OWI as seriously as Iowa does. Its not even a criminal offense; sounds like just a fine with no add'l jail time.

 

[CyRocket]

I still question this OWI. So Mac decided to either not punish Mike at all for this OWI before he showed up or he decided to write it off as academic problems when Mike first got here? Not exactly a great way for Mac to start his new job, with a lie. Also I don't hink you would want to put into the news that a player is having problems with his grades when he really isn't. Whole thing just sounds fishy on this side of it.

I don't quite understand, are you saying Mac is a liar? If you are on what basis? Do we know if coach even knew about the OWI since it isn't considered a crime in Wisconsin. Also if Taylor was not arrested until this week how do we know that Coaching staff knew what happened. You are making alot of assumptions with very little evidence.

 

[crooksie_26]

Well if the date is right on his arrest, he wasn't a student @ ISU when he got the OWI, so why are we talking about this. There is nothing the university could do if he wasn't a student. Of course if GMac felt the need to relinquish his offer he could have but didn't. This is obviously something that no one here really knows what happened, so instead of being a place to spread rumors why not shut this thread down and report the truth when the truth comes out.

 

[Jeremy]

Well if the date is right on his arrest, he wasn't a student @ ISU when he got the OWI, so why are we talking about this. There is nothing the university could do if he wasn't a student. Of course if GMac felt the need to relinquish his offer he could have but didn't. This is obviously something that no one here really knows what happened, so instead of being a place to spread rumors why not shut this thread down and report the truth when the truth comes out.

He had already committed to ISU and was a member of the team regardless of how you try to spin it.

 

[Mr Janny]

If I recall correctly, it happened after he had commmitted, but before he came to school. I remember that it was shortly after Jeremy did the interview with Taylor when he committed.

 

[Mr Janny]

it doesn't matter anyway.

 

[ISUFan22]

He had already committed to ISU and was a member of the team regardless of how you try to spin it.

Thank you.

I swear, in some eyes our players could commit murder and we'd say "give them another chance".

However, when someone from another program commits even the smallest offense - we jump all over 'em.

 

[jdoggivjc]

What do we want to become? Pierre Pierce U?

 

[CHim]

What do we want to become? Pierre Pierce U?

How can you even compare smashing a light to rape? Not saying it was ok for Taylor but that isn't even close.

 

[jdoggivjc]

How can you even compare smashing a light to rape? Not saying it was ok for Taylor but that isn't even close.

Not saying it compares to rape. At all. Just saying we don't need a team full of criminals (whether OWIs, destructive behavior, or Pierce-like behaviors)

 

[ISUFan22]

What do we want to become? Pierre Pierce U?

Or ThugU (Miami)?

When people think of Miami, Florida State and a few other schools - they have history. History of winning and history of problem children.

If we want to enshrine ourselves with the latter history - then just ignore this thing, give Mike a couple games on the bench and wait for him to mess up again.

Yet don't come on here complaining when he does something stupid in the middle of the season that not only gets our name in the paper again (and not in the good way) yet forces him to sit before a big game - putting our team in a tough spot.

This is damn close to the Jason Berryman situation - a big part of the team that hurt us by pulling the rug from beneath our feet after another chance. I'd much rather not have that history repeat itself.

 

[Jeremy]

Remember, we had a coach fired for stupidity while drinking, are the players not held to that same standard?