UPDATED: AD to discuss Cvijanovic statements

Updated: 3:15 p.m.

UI athletic director Mike Thomas is scheduled to discuss "the recent allegations by a former Fighting Illini football player" during a 4 p.m. teleconference, the school announced today.

Updated: 1:40 p.m.

Simon Cvijanovic continued his Twitter rant on Monday, directed at Illinois football coach Tim Beckman.

I'm just relaying the opinion of a 4 year Illinois football letter winner with a life time of surgery ahead of him. No one deserves this.

— Simon Cvijanovi\u0107 (@IlliniSi) May 11, 2015

The former Illinois lineman's trouble with the coach has become a national story, ESPN among several outlets picking it up.

@IlliniSi that's called being coached. Who in the history of this…