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UF OL Ronnie "Taz" Wilson (official thread)

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MililaniBuckeye;1169024; said:
Cut the kid some slack. He still has a chance to turn his life back around...
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Thanks Mili. When bad stuff happens to kids, even when it is their own darn fault, they can go two ways.. They can blame everyone but themselves, and get angry and vector off into self destructive behavior. They can also take the punishment, learn from it, and try their best to be the kind of guy he looked like from his recruitment, a good kid from a strong family.

The Gator board is divided about this, with many of us saying taking him back is a black eye and it looks like win at any cost. Others, and that included me, think that another chance without yanking his scholly and booting him is one thing, and allowing him to work his way on on his own dime is another. I assume that would be a tenuous deal with a launch for minor mistakes if he messes up.

He may not be allowed on the team again. But if he is willing to change his ways and bear the cost of student loans himself to pay for his own way while he proves himself, then I would find it hard not to cut himsome slack. We are not hurting in the O line now, so he is not a must have, but we will catch grief for it, if he is let back on. I am willing to put up with that if the kid does put his life back in order.
 
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Gatorubet;1169328; said:
The Gator board is divided about this, with many of us saying taking him back is a black eye and it looks like win at any cost. Others, and that included me, think that another chance without yanking his scholly and booting him is one thing, and allowing him to work his way on on his own dime is another. I assume that would be a tenuous deal with a launch for minor mistakes if he messes up.
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I agree wholeheartedly that making him earn his way back--without a scholarship--doesn't give your program a black eye or doesn't look like win at any cost. Making him pay his own way is the key here.
 
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If this kid turns his life around and is willing to pay his own way and work his way back onto the field, then I think it would be a great thing. He has the potential to be a success story that motivates many kids in bad situations to do the right thing.

Taz, don't screw it up.
 
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Taz, my 13 year old daughter got her only B this year in phys ed. she's a year-round swimmer and plays on a year-round basketball team with hs girls. Asked her why she is such a good athlete and got a B, and she told me she was mad at the teacher, so she didn't dress out for PE.....when I asked her who it ultimately hurt, she said "me".

Taz, don't know whether you got a raw deal, or you put your foot in it. Don't know, don't care. Either way, not meeting expectations is part of life. It's how you react/respond that determines whether it is a failure or merely a set-back. Adulthood is coping with these set-backs, and picking yourself up off the ground and continuing to move forward.

You have some God-given talent. Please pick yourself up off the ground and start again. Humble yourself and eat all the shit the coaches/community, etc. send your way. At the end of the day, whether you start at Florida, sit on the pine, it's how you react to the situation that will help determine future success. From reading your posts you've not only got talent, but brains......so you can do this.......

Just take this from another poster who is trying to help a young person, and hopes to try to help you gain from the experience that I've gained (I have the scars to prove it) through making mistakes.

What makes Good Judgement? Experience. What makes Experience? Bad Judgement. 'Nuff said.

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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Steve19;1175927; said:
If this kid turns his life around and is willing to pay his own way and work his way back onto the field, then I think it would be a great thing. He has the potential to be a success story that motivates many kids in bad situations to do the right thing.

Taz, don't screw it up.
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This is Taz's Dad.
This is a link to the 911 call from the night he got in trouble.
I think the other guy was more in the wrong, you decide.

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Taz;1183789; said:
This is Taz's Dad.
This is a link to the 911 call from the night he got in trouble.
I think the other guy was more in the wrong, you decide.

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Sorry, with all due respect, I understand your love for your son but I can't agree with your assessment.

We are well wishers here for Taz. We'd like to see him overcome this and go on to success. However, his involvement in this incident was inappropriate in the extreme.

Whether he was a Buckeye, a Gator, or someone who never touched a ball, it wouldn't matter. Any time you pull a weapon out of your car and discharge it after chasing someone, you are in the wrong.

I can't understand how a guy, who was driving away from an incident and not threatening Taz in any way can be in "more in the wrong". Perhaps you can explain why we shouldn't be thinking that Taz is very, very lucky that he is not in prison.

Taz needs to realize he can never be involved in something like this again, ever, not an assessment that the guy he chased and shot at is somehow "more at fault". So, I hope you'll understand if I disagree.
 
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Taz;1183789; said:
This is Taz's Dad.
This is a link to the 911 call from the night he got in trouble.
I think the other guy was more in the wrong, you decide.

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Are you kidding me?! I gotta agree with Steve, I have no clue how any unbiased listener could come to that conclusion.

Where were the cops during all this?! The kid was on the phone with dispatch for a long time. Considering he was giving them turn by turn directions from the moment Taz left the club, they should have had a squad car handling the situation long before it got the point where this thug pulled out a gun on him. Horribly handled situation all around.
 
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I'm surprised the caller didn't get laughed at when he told dispatch he was following a car full of football players around because he got punched at a nightclub. Why they didn't tell him to just stop following him is beyond me. They had the license plate and could send out a car.
 
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