March Madness at Sea

Above: Regent Cruise ship Grandeur. March Madness. Essential activity on a transatlantic cruise. BYU beats VCU. 20 March 2025.
SDT a BYU fair weather fan. And, today, the weather was fair.
I don't usually engage in puffery, but many BYU fans will recall the key role I played in building BYU's basketball program into the powerhouse it has become today. I was a scholarship player on BYU's freshman team during the 1968/69 basketball season. I played from the bench... eight minutes a game and averaged four points a game. Former BYU basketball coach Roger Reid was on the BYU 1968/69 freshman team and later a starter for BYU's varsity basketball program. But any contribution Reid made to BYU's basketball program paled relative to the lasting impact I had on the BYU basketball program. The key was this. Coming from left to right, I had an awe-inspiring jump shot, coming from left to right, from the top of the key. The BYU freshman team coach, former BYU great, Gary Earnest, famously commented on that shot, made on the home floor of the BYU Fieldhouse, against the Utah State University freshman team: "That damn Taylor. That shot is the only thing he can do." I'm proud to have played a seminal role in making BYU the great basketball team it is today.