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On the heels of Brady Morningstar's DWI and the much talked about Kansas hoops-football feuding comes the latest strange off-the-court bit of news.
Former Jayhawks star Scot Pollard sold a car to guard Tyshawn Taylor -- the same player who ended up in the hospital as a result of that football-basketball feud. Taylor then loaned that car to forward Markieff Morris. On Sept. 13, Morris hit another car while driving Taylor's vehicle. Then, in the police report, it was shown that the car was still in Pollard's name. Any time you've got a former player selling a car to a current player, it can raise some red flags.
“I Blue-Booked it, gave him a fair price,” Pollard said. “He was complaining a little bit. I said, ‘I’m not going to get you in trouble. We’re going to do it fair and legal or you can come up with a cheaper."Pollard and [KU associate athletics director for external relations Jim] Marchiony both said the car sale was approved by KU’s compliance office
OK, fine. Sounds like it's on the up and up, but why even put yourself into this position where questions would arise? Why wasn't the title taken care of immediately and transferred to Taylor from Pollard? If it wasn't a good deal, why didn't Taylor just keep shopping around? Unless something more is found, I can't imagine any sort of penalty being levied against anyone involved, but it's another day and another story where the preseason No. 1 in college hoops is in the news for the wrong reasons.
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This blog has no logic, and is not well put together. There is nothing wrong with Pollard selling a car to Taylor. Not only that, but the car was sold to him shortly before the wreck. There is a grace period, and the title has little to do with it. The car would need to be registered. No one has even said that Taylor didn’t do it in a timely fashion. He could have, and the DMV could be taking it’s time processing the proper paperwork to where it would show up correctly if the police run the VIN. Your assumptions are ridiculous, not well researched, and make this blog appear to be a pile on, and not reporting all of the possibilities that surround the incident.
Pollard and Taylor did exactly what they should do in this transaction. Research fair value and confirm it with KU’s compliance office. That’s what happened here, a minor accident just made this appear much more than it is. Your blog, makes it worse.
by twhit on Oct 8, 2009 11:41 AM EDT reply actions
Unfortunately, the Blue-Book he used was a manual called How To Look Like You’re Paying Someone To Go To Kansas.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Oct 8, 2009 12:12 PM EDT reply actions
Taylor has 30 days to get it registered just like anyone else.
by goldenchild on Oct 8, 2009 4:36 PM EDT reply actions
the story also fails to mention that a 16 year old girl was in the car with Morris when he wrecked it at 1:30am. Hmmm, interesting.
by crazynick44 on Oct 8, 2009 5:03 PM EDT reply actions
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