I'm starting to see a UT-Austin running back trend develop: Ricky Williams --> Cedric ("Cbong") Benson --> Erik Hardeman --> Ramonce Taylor --> who's next? Smokey?
bigtexxx, I'm trying to be your friend but if you didn't have a complex with the longhorns you wouldn't have made sure to reference them in the title. i mean com'on, that's like me saying I'm really not a steve francis fan.
Wtf is having a single "live" bullet in your possession newsworthy? Nothing illegal or wrong with it.
I thought I was missing something about that part, but you're right. it just makes the story more sensational
Here's a new article, with some new facts and quotes on the situation... http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...xas/stories/051506dnspoutarrest.3fd23d48.html UT's Taylor charged with mar1juana possession 10:34 PM CDT on Sunday, May 14, 2006 By CHIP BROWN / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN - The attorney for Texas running back Ramonce Taylor, the all-purpose yardage leader for the national champion Longhorns in 2005, said roughly five pounds of mar1juana found in Taylor’s car early Sunday didn’t belong to Taylor. The Bell County district attorney’s office charged Taylor with state jail felony possession of mar1juana Sunday night, pending a final lab analysis for the total weight of the drugs. If convicted, Taylor could face up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine. If the weight exceeds five pounds, the charge could be upgraded to a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Taylor will be arraigned today, when bail will be set. Ramonce Taylor Deputies said they found an unfired .40 caliber bullet in the center console of Taylor’s vehicle. They said while searching the rear of the vehicle they also found a backpack with the mar1juana in it. According to a news release from the Bell County sheriff’s department, “further investigation indicates the backpack belongs to Ramonce Taylor.” Taylor’s attorney, Buck Harris of Killeen, said Taylor would never have been charged if Taylor hadn’t called 911 at about 1:30 a.m. to report the back window of his sports utility vehicle being broken out while leaving a party. Harris said there were three other people in the car with Taylor when authorities found the mar1juana in the back of Taylor’s Chevrolet Tahoe. The identities of the others weren’t immediately known. “More information will be forthcoming about whom the mar1juana belonged to, but it didn’t belong to Ramonce,” said Harris, adding that Taylor is willing to take a polygraph test to prove his innocence. “Rarely do people who have large quantities of controlled substance call the police and or offer the right for them to search their car,” Harris said. “Generally the last person you want to see at that point is an officer searching your vehicle. I’m not trying to beg the question, I’m just trying to say, this is not a routine traffic stop.” Taylor totaled 15 touchdowns last season, including a score in Texas’ 41-38 victory over USC in the Rose Bowl. He had been excused from the team during the spring semester to work on his academics. “We are aware of this recent situation and will follow it as the legal system runs its course,” coach Mack Brown said in a statement released Sunday. “At this time, we will not consider reinstating him to the team.” According to the Bell County sheriff’s office, deputies received a report of a fight involving as many as 100 people at a pecan farm on Highway 95 in Little River. Little River is nine miles south of Belton, where Taylor went to high school. Authorities said they were told by witnesses at the scene that Taylor was involved in the fight and had threatened to return with a firearm. Harris said Taylor was the target of racial slurs and left the party without fighting, only to have his car’s window broken out. After deputies responded to Taylor’s 911 call, he was handcuffed in the parking lot of the Cefco Convenience Store in Academy, two miles from Little River. Taylor granted the deputies’ request to search his vehicle, authorities said, adding that Taylor was totally cooperative. Harris said Taylor was in Austin on Saturday studying for a final at Texas on Monday when he headed home to Central Texas for Mother’s Day. On his way home, a friend told Taylor of a party in Little River, Harris said. Harris said Taylor stopped home to visit with his mother before picking up the three friends and going to the party. Harris said Taylor was met with racial slurs by some people attending the party. “Unfortunately, at the party, there are some local folks who are not racially tolerant,” Harris said “These people directed some rather derogatory comments to Ramonce. And rather than have an issue and because he’s smart enough not to fight with the people, he just left. In the process of leaving, either a gunshot, a brick or cinder block was propelled into the back window of his car, shattering it. “He then drove to the town of Academy, a distance of two miles, and went to the first place that was open, where there were lights and called 911. That’s how the sheriff’s office got involved at all.” Harris said Taylor “did exactly what we teach our children to do” when he called 911 at about to report that someone had broken out the back window of his vehicle. Taylor told Harris that if authorities dust for his finger prints on the bags of mar1juana found inside the backpack, they won’t find Taylor’s. Taylor’s mother, Ramona Clark, is a former state prison guard, including two years working on Death Row in Huntsville. “If whatever was found in his car was his fault, then he made a big mistake by calling the police,” Clark said. “All I know is my son told me he called 911 at 1:30 a.m. Sunday because the back window of his Tahoe had been destroyed. I would find it hard to believe he’d call the police and allow them to search his truck if he had something to hide.” Taylor and former Texas cornerback Cedric Griffin were the subjects of a criminal investigation by the Austin Police Department in December. Police looked into whether Taylor and Griffin were involved in an alleged assault in Austin’s Sixth Street entertainment district on Dec. 10, 2005. No charges were filed in that case. Taylor rushed for 797 yards and 13 touchdowns and caught 30 passes for 329 yards and three TDs in 23 career games. He averaged 11.1 yards every time he touched the ball. He ran for 513 yards and 12 TDs last season, while catching 27 passes for 265 yards and three scores. He averaged 29.4 yards per kick return – among the best in the nation.
It's sad that they're letting their athletics program devolve into something that disgraces the other parts of the university, but the pace it's on isn't good...especially football and basketball of late
has the athletics department devolved? has the university been disgraced? Duke players getting accused of rape, that disgraces a university and has actually affected the athletics program... this is a blip on the collegiate radar...
It's been front page espn, cnnsi and yahoo sports all day. Not the news you want coming out of an institution of higher learning
guy got busted with some pot... this happens in colleges across the country every semester,... they deal with it, they move on... this is nothing compared to the Duke scandal or the University of Colorado scandal a few years back...
Are you really incapable of separating sports and academics? You just listed 3 sports sites. Gee, a player on a national champion gets in trouble, of course it's a big deal. The Duke Lacrosse scandal made headlines in news. Not just sports news.
Have you ever EVER smoked mar1juana bigtexxx? If so then shut up. If not, you're still the opposite and just as bad as a t-shirt fan.
RT is ann ahole though. If anyone has ever seen him at Gregory gym playing ball they can attest to that. He constantly bullies people at UT even though they are fans and support him. He has to be one of the dumbest athletes here to pick on his own fans. I hope he gets some jail time for this, cause he does deserve it. Also from the way I hear it he did assault people on 6th street but wasnt charged because the people were too damn scared to press charges.
