Former UK football player Lloyd Tubman retook the field at Commonwealth Stadium Saturday afternoon as a defensive end for the Austin Peay Governors. 

Tubman left the university as a result of continued investigations into sexual misconduct, that have since lead to a federal investigation of UK’s handling of Title IX complaints.

Tubman was expelled from UK and kicked off of the football team in 2014 after being arrested on the charge of rape, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. UK tribunals declared Tubman responsible for the alleged rape charges. 

The female student in the case referred to as Jane Doe hired Louisville attorney Elizabeth Howell to represent her after she was unhappy with the conclusion of the university’s action. Howell filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against UK on behalf of her client.

“I was deeply disappointed to learn, despite the fact that Mr. Tubman’s disciplinary hearing is still pending, that UK allowed Mr. Tubman on campus this week; even more discouragingly, UK failed to take the simple step of notifying my client that he would be on campus,” Louisville attorney Elizabeth Howell told the Herald-Leader. “Failure to take such a simple step lays bare UK’s deliberate indifference to victims of sexual assault on their campus and reflects campus rape culture.”

A grand jury elected to not indict him on the reason that there was not enough substantial evidence for Tubman to be taken to trial.

Since the alleged rape charges in 2015, Tubman has maintained his innocence and appealed three Title IX hearings in which he was investigated for sexual misconduct, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. Tubman is awaiting a fourth hearing, but there has been no comment as to when it is scheduled to take place.

Jane Doe is no longer a student at UK, but still receives abuse on social media accounts in regards to Tubman, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.