ASU may have 9 players that are academic casualties

COURTESY ASU ATHLETICS

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Alabama State is finalizing its 2014 football roster for the upcoming Southwestern Athletic Conference Media Day on July 18 and as many as nine returning players from the 2013 roster will not make the cut because of academics.

Head coach Reggie Barlow wanted to withhold the names until every option was exhausted to extend their eligibility but the tentative list includes several of the seven players who were held out of spring practice for academic reasons.

That would include two potential secondary starters and a receiver which figured prominently in the Hornets' statistics in 2013.

Also included on that list are ...

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