[Coach]

I don't know OJ personally so I can't say if he's a good kid or not, but I know that he is harassed daily and that would be hard for anyone his age.

All I was trying to say was that his leaving of NCH was probably because of some of the altercations and suspensions that occurred.

If you don't know O.J. personally than how do you know he's harassed daily. I do recall a few years ago a kid by the name of Lebron James that was going through this same time in his life with probably handling more attention than O.J. Mayo. If everyone is harassed than why didn't Lebron fight anybody? And the boys they faught with were freshman. I've never been in a school anywhere where a junior is harassed by a freshman. And O.J. was old enough so he was supposed to be a senior than. O.J. Mayo and Bill Walker. Who harrasses a guy 6'5 like Mayo or 6'8 or however tall Walker is? The stories I have found on it say that there was one fight at a school dance which the boy claims Bill Walker suckerpunched him. The fight was over a girl. Who knows what happened here. But the next day it's very clear that a group of basketball players, including O.J. Mayo came into the gym where this boy was and assaulted him. The boy had gym class. O.J. Mayo had a class in a different building at the time. So he had no business there. He purposely came all the way over there for that. I'm not saying he's still that way now..I dunno. But I have no doubt that the boy's story was true. Whats truely sad is that the princaple to the school called this boy's mother and suspended her son for 10 days and recomended him to be kicked out of the school. That is a shame. I don't think thats why he left that school. I think it had more to do with Bill Walker's ineligebility. But stars always get this kind of treatment. I went to Belfry during their reign as state champions and I can tell you with certainty that Doug Howard and David Jones never got harassed by anybody. But David Jones did his fair share of harrassing and did alot of things that would have gotten any other regular student suspended on several occasions. Not to mention other perks to being good at football. But I'll stop that right there. So anybody thats honest with themselves can't get on here and say that they can't see how all this with O.J. couldn't go down like it's reported. If he was in the NBA now than maybe, but these people have nothing to gain by accusing Mayo now. They can't get any money out of it. But North College Hill had plenty of money to lose if they had to kick him out. So they took care of it.