Sunday, February 12, 2012

Contracts frustrate Alabama State's Barlow

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Reggie Barlow and the Hornets had just battled Texas Southern to the wire in the 2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship Game, a fairly remarkable accomplishment for an Alabama State football program still under NCAA probation.

ASU was just two years removed from crippling sanctions that came in the wake of allegations of academic fraud and improper aid and financial benefits for student-athletes against the former coaching staff.

Yet here was Barlow, moments after the most remarkable accomplishment of his young coaching career, fending off questions from the media and recruits about his contract, which was expiring at the end of the year.




A little more than 12 months later, Barlow is answering some of the same questions and feels the need to have his contract addressed again, in part because only the first two years of his four-year contract are guaranteed and because recent coach hires in the Hornet's athletic department have elevated the salaries of other assistant coaches above those on the football staff.

ASU COACHING CONTRACTS(.pdf)

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