Keep things in perspective. It's very possible that the sale from Pollard to Taylor was legit, but it still has a rank smell. What in Lawrence doesn't? It takes time for title to transfer on car sales, so I buy the story by the ku athletic dept--they'd have to be pretty stupid to lie about something that is so easy to verify.
The legit question is: Why are millionaire alum/former players selling cars to current players on the university basketball team? What's the story with the 16 year old girl in the car at 1:15 in the morning?
Assuming Pollard didn't have the 1997 Tahoe financed (would be extremely pathetic if he had to finance such a car).
It takes exactly 13 seconds to transfer title to a car in KS. You sign the back of it in front of a notary. Obviously this is difficult to do at 1:15am in the morning, but not impossible (most bail bondsmen are notary's [sp?]).
DMV takes time to show the change of title in official records, which is what the patrol officer taking the accident report has access to. My guess is that DMV records were not updated to show the title transfer, which can take weeks.
Alternatively, there was NOT a title transfer, and the ku athletic dept machine is working overtime to get to get a legit transaction in place to make everything peachy for Morris. I doubt it, examination of the records would show the true transaction date, unless there's a connection at DMV that's willing to risk their job for ku athletics. As inbred an parochial the Lawrence/Topeka connection is, it would not be out of the question.
