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UF OL Ronnie "Taz" Wilson (official thread)

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buckiprof;805273; said:
Why? Because of this incident? If true, it is a bad mistake on Taz's part. Hopefully one that will teach him a valuable lesson. I try not to toss anyone under the bus for one bad decision in their life because quite frankly, if we did so, everyone would be under the bus!

IIRC, Troy Smith made more than one bad decision during his stay at OSU. I think he learned valuable lessons from those mistakes and is a wonderful representative for OSU on AND off the field.
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Shooting a gun in the air is a "bad decision"

What would you call it if it was fired in your direction?

Equating what Taz is accused of doing to what Troy did at OSU is an absolute slap in the face to Troy and other law abiding citizens.
 
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Steve19;805550; said:
I just read this entire thread, from the first post about this arrest. Taz chose to go to Florida but remained in touch here from time to time. So, it' s natural that some folks here feel a real attachment to someone playing, even if they never met him. During the recruiting process, some here did meet him. Yet, others know him. I wonder if we need to think about how that shapes our perceptions of Taz?

I am most influenced by the points that Vince and Mili made.

IF Taz is guilty, he carries automatic weapons in his trunk and is not afraid to use them. Furthermore, he is not afraid to use them in anger.

Buying an automatic weapon and carrying it as a concealed weapon in one's car may be at the limit, but you can still call that a "bad decision".

Stepping out of your car and firing that weapon into the air, because you feel threatened by someone following you after an altercation, can be explained as a "bad decision".

Chasing that person and breaking off only when police cars interfere is something much more serious than a "bad decision".

And, if people want to say that on BP, mindful that these are allegations at this point, then I think they should be able to do so.
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Excellent post.
 
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holybuckeye33;805780; said:
Taz is getting killed over on the Florida boards. I guess that the "family atomosphere" with the team that their fans talked about following Jan. 8th does not extend from the team to the fans.
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C'mon Holy - He's getting killed because if there is one rule that is stressed and re-stressed it is the "no guns" rule at UF. It has been a recent problem at the U of Miami, and so it was AGAIN reiterated that you cannot have a weapon. While it is a Meyer rule, it is a freaking UF Rule, and as such it is largely out of Urban's hands. As there really is no defense to having a gun on campus, let alone firing one, he is likely gone. Also, we had a recent arrest for a player fighting. Multiple arrests in a week reflect poorly on the University as a whole. That makes for some pissed off comments. FWIW, why does a guy that freaking huge have to be scared of anyone so that a gun has to be used?? The guys is a monster!

His family is top notch, and he is known as a really good kid. I fear that his time at UF is over, as the University penalty of expulsion seems like a "have to" deal. We should not give exceptions to him because of football player status. It is just a damn shame. I think he is like I was at that age. A good kid that is one or two beers away from a stupid one time act that can screw you up for life. I drove drunk at that age and could have killed someone, save God's mercy. I feel for him a lot, but I resent his stupidity in ignoring a rule that has been hammered on so many times. That pisses me off.
 
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I don't think that there's a conflict between liking the kid, feeling bad for him that he's done a lot of damage to his life and wasted a lot of his potential, yet also feeling that this is beyond felony stupid.

Sometimes what happens with young men is that they think that they can keep settling things like they did "back home". When I was at OU, I had a roommate who was from a very small town in eastern Ohio. Apparently, it was the kind of place where if the "boys" had trouble with each other, it was accepted that they'd settle it by throwing a few punches and no one thought anything of it.

Fast forward to his life as a college junior in a town where the police look for any excuse to give a student free room and board for a night, courtesy of the county. He ends up doing just that for misdemeanor assault. After bailing him out, I tried explaining to him over and over that the real world isn't a John Wayne movie. He didn't get it, and just wanted to go "back home" where things were "normal". Over and over, he kept trying to justify that there shouldn't be any problem with a guy 265 pounds punching another guy half his size, and that this should be perfectly legal, because the other guy was a "smart ass".

I see the same thing in Taz's statement to the police about wanting the guy to "feel scared". He doesn't realize AT ALL that the world doesn't work that way. Somehow he's gotten the idea that it does, and that's sad.
 
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For once I agree with the good doctorb...none of know Taz and the fact that he hung around our board after being recruiting by OSU and then choosing to go to Florida makes many of us extra-empathetic. The fact of the matter is that he is still innocent until proven guilty...but should he be proven guilty then that is something that reflects more than a "bad decision" and is a character issue for Ronnie...not the University of Florida, the UF football team or Urban Meyer.
 
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vrbryant;805308; said:
The fact that he was a prospective recruit of Ohio State and a member of this online forum should have literally zero impact on people's perception of the situation. Obviously, he (like every other person in such a position) is 'innocent until proven guilty', but the fact remains that every indication is that the guy not only drives around with automatic weapons in tow, but has no qualms with taking them out and using them. I, like anyone else, hope that this is an isolated incident and that he is able to right his personal ship--but let's not start crucifying people here for calling things how they see them.
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Hello all,
This is Dad.
Taz will be just fine when all is said and done.
I just want to clear up a few things for the record.

1. Taz does not drive around with automatic weapons in tow.
In fact it wasn't even an automatic, it was a semi-automatic which is legal.

2. If he was so gun happy as you make it appear, he would have shot the guy insted of shooting in the air.

Yes, he made a bad mistake, but remember you only heard part of the story.

I don't uphold any of my kids in any wrong doings.
With that being said, given the situation at the time I don't see where he did anything wrong.
Sometimes the best of us find ourselves in situations and don't even know how the hell we even got there ourselves.
 
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NJ-Buckeye;805385; said:
I'm sure we'll get the inside skinny from THE SOURCE... but I believe this implies that Taz had no idea what the intentions of 'the victim' was when 'the victim' was following Taz with his car... Taz may very well have thought 'the victim' could have a gun in that car and was preparing to shoot him... and Taz was indeed afraid himself.. so when he got to his car.. he wanted to let 'the victim' know what it felt like to be on the other end of the fear...

If this is the case, I can empathize.. being in a very similar situation myself in college... the only twist was.. my future bro-in-law took a shotgun away from the other fella.. who had fetched it from his car... and bro-in-law proceeded to harass him back.. pointing it at him till he left the parking lot... and kept the shotgun !!!
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Dad again,
Without saying more than I should, you pretty much hit the nail on the head.They didn't mention that this guy had been following him at 2-2:30 am all over town and he ducked into the parking lot to lose the guy.
 
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