Former University of Wisconsin football player Leonard Taylor made death threats against UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and professional tennis star Maria Sharapova in dozens of voice mail messages left at the Athletic Department during the past week, according to a criminal complaint against Taylor that was released today.

Taylor, 32, of Indianapolis, was charged with stalking and telephone harassment for the calls he made, which included an angry threat he made on Nov. 24 that he would come to Madison and kill Alvarez and his family within 24 hours, the complaint states.

"I'll kill you first, mother (expletive)," Taylor said, according to the complaint. "I've got 24 (expletive) hours mother (expletive). I'm coming for your (expletive) ass. You might have a (expletive) war."

Later in the message he told Alvarez that he wanted to look at him one last time "before I pull the (expletive) trigger, Barry."

Taylor was a defensive back for the Badgers from 1995 to 1998 and played briefly for the Madison Mad Dogs indoor football team. Taylor's last game as a Badger was as a starter in the Jan. 1, 1999, Rose Bowl win against UCLA.

Taylor's father, Leonard Taylor Sr., told police Wednesday that his son has been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, has been off his medications for three months and was not seeing his therapist, the complaint states. He said his son refused to go to a hospital for treatment, even after being told about contact by UW-Madison police about the phone messages.

Taylor was arrested in Indiana on Friday. But before his arrest, he left another voice mail message at Alvarez's office in which he said he was upset about a warrant that has been issued for his arrest and said he was coming to Madison during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, according to the complaint.

At the time the call had been made, no warrant had been issued for Taylor.

According to the complaint:

Taylor began calling Alvarez in September when he left strange but not threatening messages on his voice mail at the Athletic Department. They mostly consisted of complaints that Taylor had not been paid adequately by a television network for money due to him. Police called him on Sept. 16 and told him to stop calling Alvarez and he agreed.

But the calls resumed on Nov. 24 when he left 29 messages for Alvarez on that day and the next. They consisted of threats against Alvarez and references to how Alvarez and Sharapova had done injustices to Taylor in various ways. Taylor said he wanted to marry Sharapova but also kill her and her family.