NashVegas is a fool and doesn’t know what he is saying. On Friday, August 14, 2015 Coach Jones physically and criminally assaulted starting Offensive Center Crowder. Coach Jones selectively targeted and struck Crowder in the sternum/solar plexus region with two (2) closed fist strikes.
The assault incident occurred by Coach Jones resulted because the 2nd team offensive linemen had performed very poorly during a particular practice repetition, and not from any known actions caused directly by Crowder who was practicing on the 1st team unit.
Upon noticing the poor performance of the 2nd team offensive linemen, Coach Jones became enraged and immediately ran over to the 1st team offensive linemen that were standing huddled to the side preparing to go their next turn. During Coach Jones’ out-of-control cussing rage he targeted and then aggressively swung his closed fist and struck Crowder in the high stomach / solar plexus area two (2) times. Upon realizing he was being assaulted, Crowder’s immediate response was defensive. Crowder responded by shoving Coach Jones backward by using his open hands on the shoulders of Coach Jones and then stepping toward Coach Jones and strongly stating, “Don’t ever hit me like that again.”
At that point Coach Jones then responded with verbal assaults. Coach Jones continued his assault with verbal remarks about how pitiful the entire Offensive unit had been performing. Although their are photographs showing Crowder was the leader of the Oline performance charts, Coach Jones benched Crowder for several games against Coach Mahoney’s advice.
Most of the players, several staff, and at least three coaches witnessed the assault incident. It supposedly was caught on camera. The “Assault” story was damaging Butch Jones’ ability to recruit and other competitive major football programs were using the nation-wide assault story as leverage to recruit athletes away from the Tennessee Football Program. Public comments were being made that other major football programs.
Coach Jones became paranoid and issued "TENNESSEE FOOTBALL” IPads to several Players with Spyware Installed to monitor what they were saying. It was the same IPad
Crowder was using while training for the NFL in Tampa whenever someone at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department began targeting Crowder out of the blue. FAA flight records show Jones flying into Pinellas just days before the entrapment attempts occurred. Ultimately, some false charges were made and then later dropped but only after Crowder missed his chances with the NFL, something Coach Jones wanted to block, in fear his Assault story would become a national story.
