ASU Holds Midweek Practice

MONTGOMERY, Alabama  -- Alabama State literally fought through adversity with Wednesday's practice as classes and a late practice the day before hampered the session.

"Wednesday's are a hard day around here for our practices," Head Coach Reggie Barlow said. "First we have to practice late on Tuesday due to class schedules for several of the players and then we have the same problem on Wednesday with 4 p.m. classes taking a lot of players out of practice."

"We want the players to attend their classes, so we moved practice up to 2:30 p.m. to try and get in some practice time before we lose several players again to those 4 p.m. classes. Practicing so late on Tuesday usually means we have a sluggish start to a Wednesday afternoon practice so it's hard to get a lot done."

Alabama State has spent a lot of time working with their defense this week.

"I know to a lot of people it looks as though our defense is just not that good, but I still believe in the players and what we are doing," Barlow said. "A lot of the problems have been with the players not getting in the right position when a defensive call is made."

"This week we have spent a lot of time getting the players to understand when a defensive call is made they need to get to the area they are supposed to be in. There have been several big plays by our opposition that we actually would have had a chance to intercept a ball or make a play on it if we were in the right position. Hopefully, we are getting them to understand that."

ASU and Grambling are set to kick off at 5 p.m. at New ASU Stadium. The game can be watched live via an internet broadcast on Hornet Vision at bamastatesports.com. The game can be listened to live at WVAS FM 90.7 beginning with the pregame show at 4:45 p.m.



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