Wonder what happened to Oronde Taliaferro

[SoonerTraveler]

It is the off-season, so the mind does wander. I was thinking this morning about recent history, and a question arose in my mind.

Does anyone know what happened to Oronde Taliaferro?
What is he doing now?

He was an OU assistant coach for three seasons (2008, 2009, 2010). After the Tiny Gallon affair, he seems to have disappeared. Thankfully, the following history now seems like ancient history, even though it was not so very long ago.

SUMMARY REPORT FROM NCAA (PDF FILE):
http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.newsok.com/documents/OU Basketball Investigation 2011.pdf

http://www.normantranscript.com/hea...ctions-OU-men-s-basketball-on-probation-fined

NORMAN TRANSCRIPT / NOVEMBER 2011
EXCERPTS FROM ARTICLE:

NORMAN — The NCAA placed Oklahoma men’s basketball program on three years probation and fined it $15,000 on Friday for major violations committed in the 2009-10 season. The Division I infractions committee also vacated all 13 wins from the Sooners’ 2009-10 season and placed recruiting restrictions on the program. OU avoided being labeled a “repeat violator” and much stiffer penalties. Most of the sanctions already were self-imposed by the school.

After an investigation concluded by OU and NCAA enforcement staff, OU announced in July that former assistant coach Oronde Taliaferro broke NCAA rules by failing to report former Sooner forward Tiny Gallon’s impermissible loan and lied to investigators.

Gallon admitted in interviews that he accepted $3,000 from Florida financial adviser Jeffrey Hausinger before enrolling at OU in 2009. The loan was so Gallon could pay a debt owed to his high school so his official academic transcript could be released to the university. Phone and email records showed Taliaferro had a relationship with Hausinger. Taliaferro resigned at the end of the 2009-10 season. He maintained that he knew nothing about the violations initially, but told NCAA investigators in March that he knew about the loan.

Taliaferro received a two-year, show-cause penalty Friday for unethical conduct. It means any school wanting to hire him during that period would have to appear before the infractions committee and could face sanctions. Former head coach Jeff Capel was not implicated in the violations. He was fired in March (2011) and replaced by Lon Kruger.

A promising coaching career seems to have come to a tragic end. Better days, before coming to Oklahoma (Biography):
http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=187268

 

[psk2080]

According to RealGM.com, he is now a scout for the Detroit Pistons.


http://basketball.realgm.com/staff/Oronde-Taliaferro/Summary/815

 

[usedtobe1]

That makes sense. It was a HS coach at Detroit Central for 6 years, winning the state title in 1998 at Central.