Taylor is in his seventh year as a lecturer in the Telecommunications Department and leads its digital sports-production and immersion efforts. He founded Ball State Sports Link, the nation's first fully immersive sports-production program, in 2009 following a successful pilot program that ran before his return to campus following a short hiatus. Sports Link has trained countless students who have gone on to work in the industry and radically redefined the content-creation relationship between athletics and academics.
"When I started working in athletics I had a little note on my desk that says 'remember why you are in it.