We bumped into Trooper Taylor, who is Auburn’s wide receiver coach, assistant-head coach and a top-notch recruiter. When you talk to him for more than two minutes and get a sense of his enthusiasm it isn’t hard to see why. We’re going to celebrate Thanksgiving with him this year, the joke goes. He just doesn’t know it yet.
He’s seen The Yankee cycling around town, and remembers where. He works with young men for a living, he’s clearly having a ball and it is hard not to see, and reflect, his enthusiasm when you’re around him.
And if you take a picture with him, he insists you wear his championship ring.
“Hold it up like bling,” Taylor said. He knows my personality so well.
I looked at him, he is a former college wide receiver himself, and wondered Can you outrun me?
Trooper Taylor gives off the impression of a man living the dream, who likes to share it with everyone around him.
