New Alabama State coach faces big learning curve in camp

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Brian Jenkins has had a steep learning curve with his Alabama State football team.

The new Hornets coach wasn't able to hold spring practices because of low Academic Progress Rate performance under his predecessor, Reggie Barlow. Jenkins also said he only watched "a little bit of film" from last year's team.

"We just haven't had enough time to look into what they did last year," he said. "We didn't have spring ball so we had to make sure that we came up with some ways to creatively get the guys to understand our scheme. We couldn't waste time on anything from the past.

"Our total concept and attitude was just to make sure that we introduced them to everything in our program and have them fully focused on our program."

The Hornets aren't eligible for the new Celebration Bowl featuring the champions from the Southwestern Athletic Conference and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference because of the APR scores.



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