"The thing with cloth is you have a static pose a few seconds before your animation begins like 60 frames or so where your model dont move. This will allow your cloth sim to run and lay right hopefully before your character does his thing. Also cloth in maya is very touchy needs a lot of tweaking to get it to flow just right during the animation its self.."

ohh ok cool, ill keep all of that in mind... thanks for the comment again Kurt. anything for me is a big help for me since im new to maya cloth

Marlon