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09-03-2009, 11:21 AM
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Mosley set to better himself, moving on
By Adam Kemp
Updated: Thursday, September 3, 2009
A protective order filed against Jamal Mosley, a former OSU football player, by another OSU student was dropped Wednesday morning.
No one involved in the case appeared during the hearing at the Payne County Courthouse, but Mosley was reached for an exclusive telephone interview with The Daily O’Collegian on Wednesday evening while driving back to his home in Memphis, Tenn.
Mosley said he wasn’t able to comment on why the order was dropped but said he wanted to make it clear that he doesn’t think he did anything wrong.
“I still say I didn’t do anything wrong with any of the allegations, but I didn’t want to have to go through all that this year in Stillwater,” Mosley said. “It hurt real bad to leave my team, but you know I just had to do what I had to do for personal reasons.”
Mosley said he left OSU to help better himself.
“I just had to leave,” Mosley said. “It was nothing against the coaches or none of that. Coach Gundy and my position coach and all of the coaches and I had a good relationship ... It just had to deal with my choices, I just have to better myself and start somewhere else.”
Mosley said he left the team for several reasons, including a misdemeanor for marijuana possesion in July.
“Those are basically what pushed me away,” he said. “I had some problems going on at home with my mom. I just felt like I needed to leave so I could better myself as a person and as an athlete and as a student.”
Mosley said when a female OSU student filed a protective order against him Aug. 25 he felt it was time to move on.
Mosley:
“The restraining order kind of shocked me,” Mosley said. “I felt like I didn’t do nothing wrong. We could have gone about the situation better than we did as a whole unit — me and OSU and me and the other people and [the student] and everybody else.”
The student said on Wednesday that her attorney advised her not to comment on the situation.
After leaving his teammates on Wednesday, Mosley said he was sad to be parting with them.
“They really didn’t like it,” Mosley said. “They said that they wanted to figure out a different way than me just walking away from the situation and leaving the team and especially at such a bad time right before our game.
“I just left those guys a couple hours ago and they were just — I don’t want to say disappointed, but all of them were just shocked.”
Mosley said he plans to enroll at the University of Tennessee and will play football, but he did not know whether he would be eligible to play this season.
“Tennessee would be best for me because I was recruited there out of high school,” Mosley said. “They called my high school coach and they said they understand what happened and they will accept me there and I need to be there by Thursday to enroll and go on from there.”
Mosley reiterated his disappointment in leaving the program and the university. He said he wished things could have ended differently.
“I think it might have been different, but it is what it is and life goes on,” he said. “I have to make decisions to better myself and continue on with my life.
“I really miss my opportunity to go to OSU, I really miss that and that really just broke my heart, and I swear it did right now, it broke my heart.”
Mosley set to better himself, moving on
By Adam Kemp
Updated: Thursday, September 3, 2009
A protective order filed against Jamal Mosley, a former OSU football player, by another OSU student was dropped Wednesday morning.
No one involved in the case appeared during the hearing at the Payne County Courthouse, but Mosley was reached for an exclusive telephone interview with The Daily O’Collegian on Wednesday evening while driving back to his home in Memphis, Tenn.
Mosley said he wasn’t able to comment on why the order was dropped but said he wanted to make it clear that he doesn’t think he did anything wrong.
“I still say I didn’t do anything wrong with any of the allegations, but I didn’t want to have to go through all that this year in Stillwater,” Mosley said. “It hurt real bad to leave my team, but you know I just had to do what I had to do for personal reasons.”
Mosley said he left OSU to help better himself.
“I just had to leave,” Mosley said. “It was nothing against the coaches or none of that. Coach Gundy and my position coach and all of the coaches and I had a good relationship ... It just had to deal with my choices, I just have to better myself and start somewhere else.”
Mosley said he left the team for several reasons, including a misdemeanor for marijuana possesion in July.
“Those are basically what pushed me away,” he said. “I had some problems going on at home with my mom. I just felt like I needed to leave so I could better myself as a person and as an athlete and as a student.”
Mosley said when a female OSU student filed a protective order against him Aug. 25 he felt it was time to move on.
Mosley:
“The restraining order kind of shocked me,” Mosley said. “I felt like I didn’t do nothing wrong. We could have gone about the situation better than we did as a whole unit — me and OSU and me and the other people and [the student] and everybody else.”
The student said on Wednesday that her attorney advised her not to comment on the situation.
After leaving his teammates on Wednesday, Mosley said he was sad to be parting with them.
“They really didn’t like it,” Mosley said. “They said that they wanted to figure out a different way than me just walking away from the situation and leaving the team and especially at such a bad time right before our game.
“I just left those guys a couple hours ago and they were just — I don’t want to say disappointed, but all of them were just shocked.”
Mosley said he plans to enroll at the University of Tennessee and will play football, but he did not know whether he would be eligible to play this season.
“Tennessee would be best for me because I was recruited there out of high school,” Mosley said. “They called my high school coach and they said they understand what happened and they will accept me there and I need to be there by Thursday to enroll and go on from there.”
Mosley reiterated his disappointment in leaving the program and the university. He said he wished things could have ended differently.
“I think it might have been different, but it is what it is and life goes on,” he said. “I have to make decisions to better myself and continue on with my life.
“I really miss my opportunity to go to OSU, I really miss that and that really just broke my heart, and I swear it did right now, it broke my heart.”