Moss and another student were thrown out of high school after the two of them beat up another student, forcing the latter into a hospital with severe internal injuries. In addition, he kept putting off completing the necessary papers for admission to ND. Finally, Holtz and the school gave up. Holtz called his o'buddy, Bobby Bowden, and got him to take Moss. Before Moss could play for FSU, he was caught using weed and suspended. He transferred to Marshall and went on to star there.
A short time after this all went down, I was at a friend's wedding. An older couple was sitting across from us at dinner and mentioned they were from Charleston, WV. For whatever reason, I mentioned I was an ND grad and that we had missed on a player from his neck of the woods. Told him who it was. Much to my surprise, this guy said he knew Moss as a young kid. He owned a parking garage in the downtown area. Moss and his buddies used to frequent the general vicinity and this guy knew him when he was 13 or so. Guy said he kept warning Moss to stop his stealing and other questionable actions or the he was going to screw up his life. Said Moss was a kid always in trouble. I about fell out of my chair when he told me this, never thinking he would even know RM. He was not a RKG for ND. Don't think he would have made it very far. We would never have won anything with him.