Aaron Taylor was born in San Francisco, but his parents sent him to play high school football for the legendary Bob Ladoceur at DeLaSalle in Concord in the East Bay.
Taylor was a high profile recruit and once Joe Moore locked on to him, it was a multi-year, albeit occasionally tempestuous tough love-hate relationship.
Taylor originally “made his bones” in the Sugar Bowl after the ‘91 season when the Irish shocked haughty Florida 39-28. There in the Superdome Jerome Bettis punched in three TDS against the proud Gator defense, and on two of them he followed the blocks of the sophomore right guard, Aaron Taylor.