Dr. Bill Kibler, Vice President of Student Affairs at Mississippi State, has released a statement regarding the school’s reaction to MSU cheerleader Taylor Corley posing nude in Playboy.
Kibler:
“If she had identified herself as an MSU Cheerleader or used any of our marks, then the university might have pursued action. However, she was not identified as an MSU student or a cheerleader. The university did not pursue any action when this came to our attention last fall.”
As I reported Monday, Corley remains a current member of the school’s cheerleading squad.
In talking to several sources this morning about the situation, I’ve learned why MSU chose not to remove Corley from the school’s cheerleading squad.
It turns out that Corley posed for Playboy before she enrolled at Mississippi State. By the time anyone at the school knew about Corley’s modeling past - after the Playboy photos came out in November - she was already an upstanding member of the MSU cheer squad.
Corley did sign an agreement, as all cheerleaders at every school do, to not conduct herself in a manner unbecoming an official representative of Mississippi State. But because she posed for Playboy before she enrolled at Mississippi State and, from my sources, has conducted herself as a respectful and responsible member of the MSU cheer squad, the school never seriously considered removing her from the squad.
That isn’t to say there haven’t been complaints lodged to school officials since Corley’s appearance in Playboy. But even if Mississippi State officials wanted to cut her from the squad, because Corley modeled for Playboy before she entered school, the school may have faced a possible uphill legal and public relations battle.
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1:50 pm on January 19th, 2011
I’d ring a cowbell for her.
2:02 pm on January 19th, 2011
Good for her and for the school for not overreacting.
2:17 pm on January 19th, 2011
pics are out there (LOTS of them) google is your friend.
2:33 pm on January 19th, 2011
Did someone say bell ringing?
http://tentonweb.com/coachjim/i/ttbellringer.gif
6:18 pm on January 19th, 2011
on your earlier post, was gonna say looked like she had whipped herself into shape since the msu pic. as it’s the other way around, to one man’s eye seems she’s well on her way to earning the freshman 15. hopefully, she’s healthier for it?
but not sure why this girl’s sitchy deserves a second blast. notwithstanding throwing herself out there another lifetime ago (taylor stone?… didn’t know that was a playboy playbook), you “exposing” her once simply because she’s an msu cheer is more than enough… an edit to your original should have sufficed.
some would argue one was too much.
6:38 pm on January 19th, 2011
“,, uphill public relations and legal battle” BULLSHIT! I can not fathom the existence of anyone actually so completely lost and void of life, where they would actually take the time out of their miserable lives to complain about something that is as easy to ignore as “not looking”? She did what wrong? nudity is a crime? It isn’t porn. Playboy is practically rated PG compared to what’s out there on the free world wide web.
Taylor has more self respect than that gold digging pig who is now engaged to Ben “I bone chicks in bar bathrooms 3 months before I think that I want to get married” Rothlesburger.
7:17 pm on January 19th, 2011
DSR, its not the freshman 15, its Playboy’s copy of Photoshop that makes her look that good! None of the non-Playboy pictures in the 2 posts look shopped.
9:11 pm on January 19th, 2011
She is one klassy lassy! Mom and Dad must be proud!
11:19 am on January 20th, 2011
I wouldn’t mind being the “Vice-President for Student Affairs” at Mississippi State.
11:50 am on January 20th, 2011
I think it *is* the freshman 15. She’s going the wrong direction.
11:56 am on January 20th, 2011
C’mon. Playboy Bunnies need an education, too. She’s probably the most popular girl on the Cheerleading Squad.
1:20 pm on January 20th, 2011
Shit, Playboy really has taken a dive.
They published photos of her?
What the hell for?
8:26 pm on January 22nd, 2011
I’d do her!! Twice even
2:32 pm on February 11th, 2011
I’m sure she is a very nice girl but playmate of the year,Heff’s eyesight must be failing but with what he is surrounded by,I don’t feel too sorry for hin
7:57 am on August 19th, 2011
again…very nice and she looks so chipper and fresh. She could Twitter my Yahoo until I Googled all over her Facebook.
9:35 am on August 19th, 2011
what about ncaa infractions.