Virginia Football Recruit Taquan Mizzell Arrested During Campus Visit For Trying to Kick a Moving Car

All, College Football, Heavy Drinking, Legal Stephen Douglas January 22nd. 2013, 12:02pm

Taquan Mizzell, a senior at Bayside High in Virginia Beach, was on an official visit to the University of Virginia when he was arrested Sunday morning. Mizzell, who made a verbal commitment to Virginia in August, is expected to make it official on February 6th – if Virginia still wants the running back who apparently also wants to kick. From the Washington Post:

An officer spotted Mizzell, 19, standing in the middle of the street trying to kick a moving vehicle, Lt. Ronnie Roberts said, before determining Mizzell had been drinking.

Get it? He wants to kick moving vehicles. Mizzell, a five-star recruit who rushed for 1,200 yards and 26 touchdowns this season, was arrested at 2:30 in the morning.

[Washington Post, Charlotte Newsplex]

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29 Responses to “Virginia Football Recruit Taquan Mizzell Arrested During Campus Visit For Trying to Kick a Moving Car”

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KC Resident Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Money line from The Following review…
And, okay, here’s a personal reaction: I watched four episodes of this thing, and it made me feel like dog shit.
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geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate! Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Grrrrrreat. We finally get a 5-star recruit and he does this.
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A.P. Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:07 PM
Good job, Good effort
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Nada Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:09 PM
trying to kick a moving vehicle
I say if this kid can kick a vehicle whizzing past while he’s staggering drunk in the middle of the street, sign him up as a kicker, because he won’t have any problem booting a stationary football while sober.
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ms621 Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Grrrrrreat. We finally get a 5-star recruit and he does this.
I know Virginia is a state school but if your alumni base is anything like ours then they would be happy to hear this as they believe that there is a direct correlation between a recruit’s “thuggishness” and his athletic talent. The natural conclusion to be drawn from that is that we need to recruit more “thugs”.
White people……
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Mr. C Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Go ‘Hoos!
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spencer096 Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Mizzell, who made a verbal commitment to Virginia in August, is expected to make it official on February 6th – if Virginia still wants the running back who apparently also wants to kick.
i always thought more players should try this out…why pay for a spot on a kicker when you can have an actual athlete play the position?
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:10 PM
that’s all it takes to get nabbed? that’s a warning or a ticket. now being drunk and under 21? might be an issue
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Nada Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:11 PM
Money line from The Following review…
The AV Club has dropped its weekly Burn Notice reviews. It can go suck a bag of dicks.
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sctrojans Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:11 PM
19 in high school. Quite the advantage.
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otis sistrunk Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:12 PM
i always thought more players should try this out…why pay for a spot on a kicker when you can have an actual athlete play the position?
i was our kickoff guy/PK. never missed an ep, never tried a FG. never kicked OB, had fun practicing onsides
slayed poon
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cracker jack Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:13 PM
i always thought more players should try this out…why pay for a spot on a kicker when you can have an actual athlete play the position?
I like this, theoretically they’d save more touchdowns tackling the runner than awkward flailing kicker would
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Nada Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Charlotte Newsplex
Just FYI, Charlotte is a city in southwestern North Carolina that is home to a bad pro football team; Charlottesville is a city in middle Virginia that is home to a bad college football team.
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A.P. Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:16 PM
The AV Club has dropped its weekly Burn Notice reviews. It can go suck a bag of dicks.
why would they review the show when its not on at the moment?
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Nada Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:16 PM
i was our kickoff guy/PK. never missed an ep, never tried a FG
My junior high team in three years never attempted a field goal and always went for the 2-point conversion. I think our coach did not trust kickers.
High school, we had only straight-on kickers. Our coach did not trust soccer-style kickers.
/ Kickin’ it old school
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Nada Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:20 PM
why would they review the show when its not on at the moment?
When they reviewed the mid-season finale, they announced they would not resume the weekly reviews when it returns. But they run reviews on umpteen “classic” shows that stopped airing decades ago. Nerds.
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Milk Steak To Go Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:20 PM
The natural conclusion to be drawn from that is that we need to recruit more “thugs”.
Only UVa football would kicking a car be considered thuggish. UVa lacrosse knows thuggish.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Nobody commented on it being Bayside High?
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ms621 Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Nobody commented on it being Bayside High?
If cleet was here he would have nailed it.
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geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate! Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Just FYI, Charlotte is a city in southwestern North Carolina that is home to a bad pro football team; Charlottesville is a city in middle Virginia that is home to a bad college football team.
Charlottesville Newsplex is going to be displeased by this error.
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A.P. Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:29 PM
if one more UVA person says “It’s not called campus, it’s called the grounds”, i will shove an ice pick in their face.
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Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Just FYI, Charlotte is a city in southwestern North Carolina that is home to a bad pro football team; Charlottesville is a city in middle Virginia that is home to a bad college football team.
To be fair, that kind of investigative fact checking is only found at Deadspin.
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ms621 Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:36 PM
if one more UVA person says “It’s not called campus, it’s called the grounds”, i will shove an ice pick in their face.
Someone sounds eager to add to their permanent record.
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kaiserwilhelmreems is commenting too quickly Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Taquan Mizzell, a senior at Bayside High in Virginia Beach, was on an official visit to the University of Virginia when he was arrested Sunday morning.
I missed this episode of SBTB, maybe the car was aiming for Becky the duck?
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ms621 Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:41 PM
I missed this episode of SBTB, maybe the car was aiming for Becky the duck?
Or maybe it was an evil oil company executive who wanted to plant oil derricks all over their beautiful campus.
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cleet Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Nobody commented on it being Bayside High?
Beat b-beat, b-b-b-beat
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kazzythekid Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:53 PM
19 in high school. Quite the advantage.
At least he is still a teenager.
http://deadspin.com/5976955/dcs-newest-high-school-basketball-star-will-turn-21-this-year-according-to-fiba
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Jay V Of Considerable Influence Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:02 PM
i always thought more players should try this out…why pay for a spot on a kicker when you can have an actual athlete play the position?
This was pretty much the standard until the 60s, right?
When they reviewed the mid-season finale, they announced they would not resume the weekly reviews when it returns. But they run reviews on umpteen “classic” shows that stopped airing decades ago. Nerds.
Shows that are only averaging 20-30 comments per review ain’t gonna stick around at the AV Club.
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Average_Joe Says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 1:38 PM
So…isn’t the bigger story who got him drunk? He’s 19, so he may have had some buddies already in school there who hooked him up. But it would be a bigger story if “taking him out for a good time” was part of his recruiting visit. I wonder how common that is.
That type of thing may fly in Miami, but I don’t know if it would be well received at UVA.