South Carolina Football: Gamecock opponent suspends player indefinitely; marks third team arrest in a month

South Carolina football will take on the Texas A&M Aggies on October 28th. The Gamecocks’ cross-divisional rival is playing pretty well this season, but Jimbo Fisher’s team is also making headlines for the wrong reasons since the season began.

For the third time in the last month, a Texas A&M football player has been arrested. Offensive lineman Jordan Spasojevic-Moko was arrested for twice violating a protection order that was placed against him last week by a Texas judge.

According to a report from Rusty Surette of CBS affiliate KBTX News in College Station, Spasojevic-Moko had a protective order filed against him by a woman but went to a bar where he knew the same woman would be. While in the bar, he taunted her from across the room before being arrested.

While at the Brazos County Detention Center, he repeatedly called the same woman. This resulted in an additional charge from police and an indefinite suspension from the football team. Given the nature of his charges, Spasojevic-Moko is not expected to return to the program any time soon, if at all.

The arrest is the third for Texas A&M in the last month.

Early in September, wide receiver Micah Tease was arrested on drug charges and suspended indefinitely from the team. He has not returned to the program as of this writing.

A week later, star defensive lineman Shemar Turner was arrested for reckless driving stemming from an August incident in which he drove over 80 miles per hour in a heavily trafficed 35 miles-per-hour zone and ran a red light. He faced “internal discipline” and missed no game time.

South Carolina football dealt with three arrests of their own in a February incident involving a gun improperly being on campus. All three players (defensive end Monteque Rhames, defensive back Anthony Rose, and defensive back Cameron Upshaw) are no longer with the team.