USF has released the e-mails exchanged Monday between athletic director Mark Harlan and Columbia Restaurant Group president Richard Gonzmart in the immediate wake of Coach Willie Taggart's short-lived ban on Ybor City to his team.
Taggart announced Ybor was "off-limits" to his players shortly after noon on Monday, less than 36 hours after former Bulls DT Elkino Watson was stabbed to death in a parking lot outside an Ybor club. Five hours later, Harlan overruled the ban after learning of it from Gonzmart's e-mail published below:
Mark,
I was sad to learn of the murder if(sic) a former USF football player.