11-11-2025, 12:37 PM
The part I'm having the hardest time buying is Taylor's contention that he's not a public figure. Pretty sure when you're a coach of a major D1 football program, provide literally weekly interviews with the national media, and are one of the university's highest paid employees, you're a public figure.
And yeah, the ticky tacky disputes about whether ESPN presented every detail correctly feels a little missing the forest for the trees. Ultimately, he doesn't, and he can't, dispute the overall thrust of their reporting. And the party that should be most embarrassed here is not ESPN, but Stanford, for knowing about all of this and not taking any action until it became public and they could avoid it no longer.
And yeah, the ticky tacky disputes about whether ESPN presented every detail correctly feels a little missing the forest for the trees. Ultimately, he doesn't, and he can't, dispute the overall thrust of their reporting. And the party that should be most embarrassed here is not ESPN, but Stanford, for knowing about all of this and not taking any action until it became public and they could avoid it no longer.