Like 88 says, Trooper Taylor is an assistant coach who worked for Fulmer a couple of years. He actually improved our RBs. So Phil put him on the WRs, which were playing badly, and they improved. He's a good position coach, imo, but a towel waver and chest bumper. He came by way of Tulane with a warning about shady recruiting. Troop wanted to get promoted to OC, and he might have done well. Phil didn't promote him, so he left for Okie State and a co-OC title, which did not last long. Then went to Auburn, which had some of the crookedest alumni in the country running recruiting. Trooper called one of our players, Gerald Jones, I think he was a senior and it was after the season, and put a recruit on the line. It was a player Tennessee and Auburn were both recruiting, and our guy Jones told the recruit what a great coach Trooper was, which p.o.ed a lot of Tennessee fans. So Trooper Taylor has a history with UT, both good and bad. He is at Arky State now. Word was that he was getting hot at Auburn with too much attention on their bad business. I think Malzahn cut him loose, after Malzahn came back to Auburn as HC.(Malzahn was OC at Auburn and then HC at Arkie State, and is now HC at Auburn). For whatever reasons, Troop landed at Arkie State after he left Auburn. We just played Arkie State, hence the pic with Troop and Butch.
