Austin Haywood, gone for good, offers Transcript a few parting words
Published: 12/20/2011 9:11 AM
Last Modified: 12/20/2011 9:11 AM
Michael Kinney of the Norman Transcript caught up with Austin Haywood, the Oklahoma tight end who quit the team at midseason, reconsidered and was invited back under certain conditions, then failed to meet those conditions and was permanently scratched from the roster.
"It just came down to the point where I can't take this anymore and I said I'm going to leave,” Haywood told Kinney. "It took a few weeks to make my decision. I had thought about it. The coaches didn't even know. I was talking to my teammates. But it was really just my decision. My teammates wanted me to stay, but I had to do what I had to do."
Haywood said his next stop will "more than likely" be out of state.
"I have just been going through a lot of stuff," he told Kinney. "I want to grow from it and learn from my mistakes. I guess it just had to go down that way. Just move on and start somewhere new."
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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