After spending the last year in the Pitt basketball program, former four-star guard Dior Johnson will now play for Clarendon College, a junior college program in Texas, per JucoRecruiting.com.
Pitt basketball announced weeks ago that Johnson no longer attended the University of Pittsburgh. PSN reached out to the University for comment on Johnson’s departure, but has not heard anything back regarding why exactly Johnson is no longer at the University.
Johnson, a former five-star recruit, never played a game in a Pitt uniform aside from international exhibitions this summer. When he committed to Pitt before last seaosn, Johnson was the highest-rated recruit in Jeff Capel’s tenure at Pitt. However, prior to his freshman season last year, he was arrested and subsequently suspended indefinitely by the team after he was involved in a domestic abuse incident in Oakland. Johnson eventually plead guilty to two charges: strangulation and simple assault.
He originally faced charges of one felony count of aggravated assault, one felony count of strangulation, one misdemeanor count of unlawful restraint, one misdemeanor count of simple assault and one misdemeanor count of false imprisonment.
The judge for the case dropped four charges, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, witness intimidation and aggravated assault, but held one charge of simple assault (misdemeanor) and one charge of strangulation (felony) on Oct. 20, 2022. Johnson plead guilty to those two charges on Dec. 9, 2022, with the judge lessening the strangulation charge to a misdemeanor ordering Johnson to serve a year of probation. With his charges dropped from felonies to misdemeanors, Pitt chose to bring him back to practice, but redshirted him. He was also involved with the Pitt international tour in Spain this summer.
The REAL story was printed in the Post-Gazatte.
What was the story? I missed it.
Basically it stated that two parties can file a formal complaint about a student violating the code of conduct (either the victim, or Title IX coordinator). Rightfully so, Pitt would not disclose who filed. It was then determined that there was enough proof to dismiss him from the university based on the complaint and violating the student code of conduct.
Good riddance to him. A complete stain on the University. He couldn’t plea bargain his way out of this one.
Regardless of anyone’s personal opinion of a person that they don’t know, it’s completely unprofessional and nonsensical to arbitrarily expell a student athlete in such an untimely manner.
Unless he flunked out.
That is why everyone was so upset. It is the student code. It protects the students rights. Although no another incidents occurred, he lost his appeal.
I wasn’t upset in the slightest…….And he richly deserved to lose his appeal
A Title IX review, hearing and appeal are not arbitrary.
Wiki’s article on Claredon College says it’s a Community College, ala CCAC.
Which means he probably flunked out of Pitt. Somebody and their a many shady D1 programs would have scooped him up immediately.
Sad chapter from the Capel error. That buyout is dropping!