For Texas Longhorns redshirt senior safety Michael Taaffe, being significant is more important than being successful.
So even though head coach Steve Sarkisian rightfully called Taaffe’s ascension from walk on to second-team All-American “probably the coolest story on our team right now,” the Austin Westlake product arrived in Atlanta at SEC Media Days with the flood victims of Camp Mystic on his mind and on his tie.
Quite literally — the tie monogramed by Anderson Parker in Austin featured the initials of the camp director, counselors, and campers who tragically passed away in the Fourth of July Flooding in Texas Hill Country.