ORLANDO, Fla. — UCF special teams coordinator Brian Blackmon is one of three former or current Troy University coaches listed as a defendant in a federal lawsuit stemming from allegations that former Troy punter Jack Dawson verbally harassed and physically abused former Troy long snapper John Haynes at Troy in 2020, according to a report from Alabama’s CBS 42.
The report states that the lawsuit alleges Blackmon, Dayne Brown and Jamaal Smith, who still works at Troy, had “actual knowledge” of the harassment against Haynes but did not intervene.
The lawsuit claims that the coaches “believed John was being sexually harassed because he was homosexual … and chose not to intervene on behalf of John because of [their] perception of John’s sexuality,” according to the report.
