COLUMBUS — Ohio State has dismissed senior linebacker K’Vaughan Pope after he was sent off the field during the Buckeyes’ rout of Akron.
Head coach Ryan Day announced the dismissal in a statement released Sunday afternoon and said Pope would remain on scholarship until the end of the current semester.
Senior linebacker K’Vaughan Pope has been dismissed from the Ohio State football team. K’Vaughan will continue to have the use of programs that benefit our student-athletes, such as our Student-Athlete Support Services Office, and we will support him with his progress toward graduation. He will remain on scholarship through the duration of this semester. –Ohio State head football coach Ryan Day
The incident in Saturday’s game started when Pope tried to re-enter the game in the second quarter and was waved off by a teammate.
Pope began walking to the locker room and got into an altercation with linebackers coach Al Washington.
He was sent to the locker room after throwing his jersey and gloves into the stands.
Pope wrote a derogatory tweet about Ohio State that was later deleted.
He tweeted an apology Sunday.
Another lukewarm reception
Despite the 59-7 drubbing of the Zips, the Buckeyes got mixed reaction from the pollsters.
They fell one spot to No. 11 in the AP Top 25 but jumped two spots to No. 10 in the USA Today coaches’ poll.
Alabama remained No.1, followed by Georgia, Oregon, Penn State and Iowa.