CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — West Virginia University has placed defensive coordinator Vic Koenning on administrative leave Tuesday following a football player taking to Twitter to accuse Koenning, who coached at Illinois over nine years ago, of inappropriate behavior.

West Virginia sophomore safety Kerry Martin Jr., called for “a change in our program,” Tuesday in a long social media post detailing what he considered inappropriate language and insensitive behavior from the Mountaineers defensive coordinator.

Martin’s accusations against Koenning included alienating both Martin and former West Virginia defensive back Derrek Pitts over their religious beliefs, using a slur for mental illness in the direction of players during practice and using insensitive language toward the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protestors in a Zoom video conference meeting with his players.

During the social post, Martin also alleges that, after speaking with Koenning on a recruiting trip, his high school coach described the WVU defensive coordinator as having a “Slave Master mentality.”

Koenning was the defensive coordinator at Illinois from 2010-11 under then-head coach Ron Zook and the Illini won the 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl against UCLA after Zook was fired before the game.