Report: Tennessee player arrested, suspended from team
Tennessee JUCO transfer defensive tackle Alexis Johnson was arrested Wednesday night and has been suspended from the team, according to the Knox News Sentinel.
Johnson was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and false imprisonment, according to arrest warrants.
Here’s the report from the paper:
The victim, who previously dated Johnson on two occasions, told police she was “play fighting” with him in the living room and the bedroom of his apartment sometime between 3-5 a.m. Sunday when the horseplay turned violent, according to arrest warrants. The episode escalated when the 6-foot-4, 295-pound Johnson placed his hand around the victim’s throat, repeatedly choking her to the point that she could not fight back and felt she was going to pass out, warrants state. A witness said Johnson “appeared to be really punching her,” and that the victim’s lip was “busted,” according to the warrants.
“The defendant attempted to repetitively touch and kiss her and she repeatedly stated that she did not want to have sex with him,” the warrants state. “(The) victim attempted to leave the bedroom and said the defendant blocked the door prohibiting her exit. While doing so, the defendant stated, ‘You think I won’t (expletive) you up?’ “
Johnson was rated as a four-star prospect and the No. 2 JUCO defensive tackle in the country and the No. 21 overall JUCO player in the country, according to 247Sports’ Composite Rankings.
Former Tennessee offensive lineman Mack Crowder was arrested on five felony charges Tuesday night, while another former offensive lineman Cosey Coleman was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery.
Good for Butch getting rid of him, but dang UT this has not been a good week for former/current Vols.
He didn’t, the kid is only suspended, and there lies the problem.
I’m thinking it’s suspension until more evidence is found. He is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, so for now Butch does not have a reason to fully boot him.
After reading that, he had plenty of reason to boot him, most programs do, Alabama booted a kid last season that ended up later on having charges dropped. In this climate and with uts history, you drop him period and as far as replacing him they have talent at that position anyway not that it matters, but come on you have to start making examples of these incidents, or else the ncaa will have to step in and do it for you.
This is exactly the case. This is par for the course for Butch Jones. Immediate suspension and if proven guilty, then kicked off the team. Nothing new here.
The Alabama player your talking about was a transfer that had been kicked off Georgia’s team because he had two other run ins with the law. He had already shown a pattern and they gave him a chance and he messed up.
I’m just saying if you are the Vols, HC, and AD already involved in a lawsuit for covering things like this up, you should act swift to avoid further scrutiny. This is the 7th known football player in less than 2 years to be accused of committing a crime sexual in nature, they can’t ignore this problem anymore. A lot of teams that don’t have the history of misconduct that ut does kick players off following the arrest, no suspension straight up dismissed.
He’s only suspended in case if he’s innocent. It’d be awful to kick a star player only to find out that he’s innocent. If he’s proven guilty then Butch will have him off the team permanently. He already did it to a freshman running back last year, and probably some other players I can’t remember at the moment.
I may be wrong on this but isn’t there an unnamed player still on the team that was tied into a rape case but the woman didn’t file charges and moved back home. Sorry had to look it up and yes this appears to be the case: A.J. Johnson, Michael Williams and Riyahd Jones, and a current football player named as a “John Doe” — are accused of sexual assaults in the lawsuit. – the Tennesseean
Nothing I ever heard about. All I know is that Jones has tried to take care of this when it came up. And, as far as I know, he has suspended any player who gets named as a suspect in anything. Hell, he threw A.J. Johnson off when he was pretty much our whole defense. Right now though, I’m trying not to believe everything I read. All kinds of details are coming out, some false and some true. I’ll wait until this whole mess gets settled before I read too much about it.
Looks like UT is trying to be the Auburn of the eastern division.
Coming from a Georgia fan…
Funny, I didn’t think UGA has had the level of issues recently that it did in the not so distant past. Granted, if you really wanted to delve into numbers, it’s more like Bama is the Florida of the western division…the tide aren’t too far off in no. of arrests. Just sayin.
Yep.
So their trying to have less arrests and more recent championships than UGA? Seems like a solid plan to me.
Trying is the key word. I’m sure Auburn is trying to find a QB, or win more than 2 conference games. All the teams are “trying” to win championships…well, except for Bama. It doesn’t seem to be that big of a challenge for Bama.
Are you kidding me? Looks like Butch has lost control here. Does he not help his players develop emotionally and socially or is it just ballin’ baby? Maybe doesn’t recruit good character, just can you play? Imagine the co-eds on campus and their parents are more than a little concerned, you know this is just what has been reported. UT = UThug?
Butch has not lost control. His policy has always been to immediately suspend any player that is arrested or accused of something serious. If proven guilty while still on the team, they are kicked off. That’s always been par for the course. As for recruiting good character? A ton of teams recruited this kid, and he received offers from a lot of schools, including Alabama, Houston, and Baylor. Yes, Nick Saban, everyone’s bastion of all that is right with developing players made an offer on this “thug.” So get off your high horse. UT has at least not started a race war… Gary Pinkel lost control of a team which was too emotionally compromised to play football, so he folded under their pressure to support them by handing tissues out and going to whine in the corner with them. I just cannot imagine what you people want the Vols to do. Suspending the kid from all football activities is precisely what the NCAA would do if they were to step in.
Funny mythic, looks like GP calmed the waters, but the issue is the rampant abuse problem by UT players. Others have made the case he should be dismissed. Excuse me if the whole suspended until proven guilty charade is wearing a little thin. But you don’t need to convince me, just all those parents wondering if Knoxville is a good place to send their daughters. There are a few things that bring more to the university that football, one of them is enrollment. Personally, I have nothing invested in UT, just an observation. By the way, you might check that blood pressure, if you react this way wait until the ESPN investigative shows start showing up…you might have a stroke.
Calmed the waters? He caused his President to step down and then weesel his way out with a “medical” issue. Pinkel did nothing but caused the U of Missouri long problems and show that these athletes can go on strike basically if they get their feelings hurt. Well grow the f up. Thats whats wrong with this country everyone is so politicaly correct its killing america.
Reread the article. The kid was a JuCo transfer, so it’s not as if Jones or anyone else could have had much impact on exorcising the proverbial demons, so to speak, in the several weeks he has been with the program.
Since UT isn’t addressing these issues perhaps it’s time for the ncaa to address them.
Are you referring to the allegations that were recently raised in the Title IX lawsuit about incidents happening MORE THAN 20 years ago? Yeah, the NCAA should totally step in now and punish players and an administration far removed from what is alleged to have happened… Beside the fact that the NCAA already knew about them, since they get reported either by the team or the media, and did nothing. Or do you mean the incidents over the past few years? Like all the times that Butch immediately suspended a player, and if found guilty, kicked him off? Yeah… the team totally mishandled those situations, and it is definitely time for the NCAA to address the issues that have already been addressed. Or maybe you’re referring to the player that played for the team in back in the late 1990s and was recently arrested for incidents over the past year. Yeah, the NCAA should address that since his actions are very clearly connected to the team. Or you must be referring to the player arrested just yesterday for something he did after he was finished with the team. Again, this seems like something the NCAA should definitely address.
What you are proposing is that the NCAA punish a team simply for things that (1) it has known about and decided not to address, (2) players’ alleged transgressions some after leaving the team, and (3) players that are immediately suspended from team activities and kicked off the team if found guilty. What you want is for the NCAA to punish a team for the most tenuous of connections or for doing exactly what the NCAA would require in a given situation. Next you’ll say that a team should be punished for any crimes that any of its fans commit, but only if that team is not named South Carolina. Get over yourself and learn how the NCAA operates and how the law works. Butch Jones has taken a hard stance against behavior of this kind by his players, and is not afraid to kick players off the team if they are proven to have committed crimes. But he shouldn’t, just like any other coach, kick a player off the team just because they are accused. There was some strong evidence that Jameis Winston’s accuser fabricated most of her accusations, and she took a pretty small settlement (far below what she asked for), partially because she was found out. Players should not be punished severely by the team when the courts have yet to punish them, and potentially will exonerate them. That is just absurd.
Typical deflect, this is the seventh accusation on record of sexual nature in 2 years. That is a problem and yes sex crimes happen at all colleges, but not 7 players from one team in that timeframe. But keep on deflecting and denying there is a problem.
Wait, hold up. You are saying this is serious because there were 7 accusations within a 20+ year time frame…? You’re joking right? That’s an immaculate record for a college campus… Sexual assaults, sadly, happen all the time on college campuses, and involving college sports teams. 7 would be a low statistic if the time from was only a year. Your point is lost on me.
I don’t mind admitting that there is a problem. But let’s not single UT out in this. There are the same problems of players committing crimes and sexual assaults across the country on every team, including yours. UT just happens to be the one that is being sued for creating a disciplinary system that is virtually the same as hundreds of other campuses across the country. Their system was created under a model suggested by Title IX itself. The suit just happens to be against Tennessee. The same accusations could be levied against almost any other university.
Yes, UT has a problem with sexual assault, as does every other campus in the country. In fact, Vanderbilt is still embroiled in a major rape case from a few years ago involving 4 players. This is nothing new. It’s sad that it happens, but don’t act like UT is the only one in the muck. Plenty of other players do this all around the country… But yes, continue to sit atop your high horse.
7th in 2 years, clearly stated. Let me slow it down for you since you are a little slow this morning. It’s the 7th since 2014.
Yes and everyone involved with those accusations were suspended until proven innocent or guilty. If guilty they were kicked off. The problem at UT is no bigger than at any other college. It’s an issue anywhere UT is just the one getting attention for it right now. Yes it does need addressed but I’m pretty sure there’s a law suit addressing it right now that we keep hearing so much about. In fact Butch has taken steps, the same ones the military are taking btw, to address the issue. He has the players go through classes and training on why you shouldn’t do it and how to keep yourself out of a situation where you could be accused of it. This most recent incident is happening with a kid who just got to UT not too long ago so it’s not related to anything the coaching staff is or isn’t doing. Also these are all kids a lot of which come from not so great places, that’s the case for most kids in SEC football, and kids are going to make dumb decisions. Some decisions way worse than others but that’s life. Butch is handling things just fine and is nowhere close to losing anything. He’s got this. As for most of thsoe issues with sexual assault most of those were from guys recruited by Dooley btw.
@burt I respect your point, but let’s be honest is everything being handled right, after reading the above story, should this guy still be on scholarship, given the fact that this is a known issue with the university. The coach and ad are named in a lawsuit civil wrong these things up. Look at the situation with Alabama and Taylor, he was arrested and immediately dismissed, charges were later dropped. Was it fair to Taylor, no, but bama did the right thing, if nothing else it sets an example, that these kids shouldn’t put themselves and the university in these positions. Does sexual assaults occur at ever university yes, but the problem is that they are occurring at a higher rate at UT.
* lawsuit for covering these things up….( I hate the iPhone)
If you kick someone off a team that is innocent, then you have created a situation where you are in the wrong and have offered yourself up to a lawsuit.
You might want to retire and let the smart people handle this one.
Maybe go back to SC or some other fantasy land where Spurrier didn’t get donkey-kicked in the chest.
Esec you are such a tool, coaches can kick players off for the arrest itself, it happens all the time, like your sad attempts at trolling SC.
Sorry if stated facts aggravate you.
1. Steve spurrier got donkey-kicked in the chest by Butch Jones in Columbia in 2014 and signaled his retirement at the press conference afterwards.
2. Kicking someone off a team who is innocent can attract a lawsuit as well as it can be immoral.
Care to keep playing?
Here’s a fact:
Arizona, Arizona state, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, etc have all dismissed players following arrests, not trials arrest. Many teams have zero tolerance guidelines they follow, and these are not illegal because many have behavior detrimental to the university guidelines. So again you are incorrect.
Secondly the only thing getting donkey kicked in Knoxville these days are the women.
Tennessee fans seem very sensitive to these issues. Interesting.
@Bill, Sorry about the late reply man and yes the iphone is terrible for messing what you’re trying to say up I hate it too. I also see your point but at this time it’s still technically all alleged. I believe he’s guilty myself but I can see not completely booting someone and giving them a chance to prove their innocence first even if you take some flak for it because of other stuff going on. However, I wouldn’t be upset if they did boot him. I just can’t completely disagree with waiting to see what actually happens with it. Man though UT is getting shat on hard right now. Hopefully it all works out for the better for everyone and all these issues get cleared up. This is getting pretty ridiculous though.
@burt valid points, I guess I was hoping for a quicker, stiffer statement made by the coaching staff, given their situation. It really won’t be a big loss if they dump him, they are pretty stacked on the d line, anyway.
Georgia and Florida used to battle it out for the title of thug u, but it now safely belongs to Tennessee.
UF will always be University of Felons.
Shooting people in the face and covering up murder is/was and always will be a Miami or UF thang.
I have been a season ticket holder at UGA for many years and dont recall UGA battling it out for the thug title at all. Not something a UGA fan should be saying.
Uga has had one of the highest arrest counts in the SEC over the last 5 or 10 years.
I’m just as big a fan of the dawgs as you are. The only difference is I’m not in denial that Georgia had a serious athlete behavioral problem on its hand. That is the main reason Richt started kicking all those players off the team.
Things could go from bad to worse when the NCAA investigates allegations of boosters paying for Kahlil McKenzie’s Golden Corral buffets and Shy Tuttle’s motorized wheelchair
I think the Vols can chalk this week up as one of the worst weeks ever in Knoxville.
When it rains it pours… Hopefully this’ll end soon.
Where is Chippy today?
His mother must have taken his laptop away until he finally gets a job and moves out of the basement
He was up late looking for cocks to swallow.
If you are taking about who I think you are, lol
Talking*
“brianchip” AKA Chippy is a trolling moron UT fan who makes a fool out of himself every day on this thread.
He will show up and say something like………
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….all football schools have thugs and rapists
…..my team beat your team
etc.
That would be the same dude trolling for cocks to go in his mouth last night on another post, same guy, what a douche
Get a room you two.
Tennessee sexual harassment and battery charges is the SEC East version of Auburn taking in players who are convicted of sexual harassment and battery charges. keep it classy…
I’m interested in who these players from Auburn are. Also, committing a crime is different than getting a second chance after a crime is committed and punishment has been given.
Or do you believe that all crimes should be life sentences/the death penalty?
Innocent until proven guilty. Bedrock of the US criminal code. Suspending the player is appropriate until the legal process has completed. All we have are charges, not proof. If he is found guilty, send him packing ASAP. How many of you would get indignant of being punished before the legal process completed?
One other thing – these are not children. Dad (coach) can’t be with them 24/7. They are men and need to be held responsible for their actions like any other man.