Taylor said he left Wake Forest because he didn't think he could beat out the two quarterbacks ahead of him - current starter Ben Mauk and backup Cory Randolph.
"Looking at the situation, I think I've improved a lot the last two years," Taylor said. "The two years I was there they had some quarterbacks who were better than I was. I saw the writing on the wall. I just thought I'd find an opportunity playing somewhere else, so I decided to leave."
It wasn't as if Wake Forest wanted Taylor to go, coach Jim Grobe said.
Grobe said that by the end of the 2003 season, he would have been comfortable playing Taylor if that year's starter, Randolph, had gone down.