USF football coach Willie Taggart described himself as “baffled” by the discovery that one of his players, freshman tackle Benjamin Knox, has been arrested for firing a gun on campus.
The incident happened early Sunday morning, at 4 a.m., when cameras caught Knox firing a gun at a wall.
“I woke up (Sunday), thought I was going to come to work with a smile, excited, then you get slapped in the face with that news,” Taggart told The Tampa Tribune. “To hear what’s happened, it’s like ‘you’ve got to be kidding me.’”
Knox, a recruit from Deland, has been released from jail on $32,500 bond. He has been suspended from team activities.
“He’s a good kid, a good football player,” Taggert said. “It was even more surprising when I heard it was him. I was ticked off, and a lot of our plaeyrs were ticked off.”
The Bulls travel to UConn Saturday.
“It’s sad because you can make a bad decision and it ends the rest of your life,” Taggert said. “Our guys have to learn. We all know right from wrong.”
