VOLUNTEERS LB PLAYER HAS SUSPENDED BY THE HEAD COACH FOR.

William Mohan, a football player, was suspended by the Tennessee Volunteers following his arrest.

William Mohan, a linebacker for the Tennessee Volunteers, was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of felony domestic aggravated assault. The school announced on Tuesday that Mohan has been suspended indefinitely.

“We are aware of William Mohan’s recent arrest as a football student-athlete,” a Tennessee athletics department spokesperson stated in a statement. “He was immediately suspended indefinitely from all team activities.”

Officers responded to a domestic disturbance on Saturday, but when they got there, Mohan had already left, according to a Knoxville Police Department report. Officers were informed by a woman that she had invited Mohan over but discovered he was drunk when he got there. She reported to the police that Mohan tried to start a sexual relationship with her and that she tried to hurried him to her room to avoid waking up her roommates. She reported to the police that when she rejected Mohan’s advances, he became hostile toward her.

According to the report, the woman claimed that Mohan pulled her toward him while grabbing her face with one hand and strangling her by the throat with the other. According to the woman’s account to the police, she screamed, resisted Mohan’s hold, got out of bed to retrieve the iron on her desk, and made her demand known. She claimed that when Mohan persisted in standing on her bed and would not go, she went to the kitchen and took a knife.

She told police that she asked Mohan to leave once more when she went back into the bedroom carrying the knife. She claimed that he removed the knife with one hand and grabbed her by the throat with the other. She claimed that after telling Mohan to leave, her roommate went into the bedroom.

Mohan eventually gathered his belongings and left, according to the report, but a short while later he started knocking on the door and calling the woman by name. According to the woman, Mohan passed out on the couch after she allowed him back into the apartment. After that, she told the police, she began phoning Mohan’s phone numbers in an attempt to get him a ride home.

Mohan was taken into custody the following day after a warrant for his arrest was issued. On September 16, a preliminary hearing is planned.

Mohan is a redshirt sophomore linebacker who spent most of his 2017 season playing special teams. Before the 2021 season, he moved from Michigan to Tennessee.

In order to map out the school’s future and possible departure from the conference, the Florida State board of trustees unanimously decided on Friday to file a lawsuit against the ACC, contesting the legitimacy of the league’s grant of rights and its $130 million withdrawal fee.

The ACC is being sued in 38 pages for a declaratory judgment that the grant of rights and withdrawal fee were “unreasonable restraints of trade in the state of Florida and not enforceable in their entirety against Florida State.” The lawsuit was filed in Leon County Circuit Court in Tallahassee, Florida.

The university accuses the ACC of “chronic fiduciary mismanagement and bad faith” in how it has managed its multimedia rights agreements, undermining the income prospects of its members. Additionally, Florida State charges the ACC with nonperformance and breach of contract.

“I believe this board has been left no choice but to challenge the legitimacy of the ACC grant of rights and its severe withdrawal penalties,” Peter Collins, the board’s chair, said. “None of us enjoys our current situation. But I think the conference has looked at every option, so we have to act in the best interests of Florida State going forward, both now and in the future.”

At this point, Florida State is in uncharted territory. A grant of rights has never been contested by a school in court.

The document has been referred to as “ironclad” by ACC officials in the past, and leagues nationwide have operated under the belief that the document’s language is so strict that it would keep schools from leaving. However, no one really knows if the document is as unshakeable as claimed because no school has ever challenged it in court.

The ACC board of directors chair, Jim Ryan, the president of Virginia, and commissioner Jim Phillips bemoaned Florida State’s “unprecedented and overreaching approach” in a statement.