Serious allegations leveled against ASU football coach

The contract ASU trustees approved will pay Jenkins a first-year salary ($175,000) that's $90,000 less than what he was earning at Bethune-Cookman ($265,000).

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Brian Jenkins turned the Bethune-Cookman University football program into a winner, but off the field former players and coaches say the program was rife with rules violations and teetering on the edge of dysfunction because of the animosity between them and Jenkins, who is the new head coach at Alabama State University.

In the past month, the Montgomery Advertiser was contacted by, or made contact with, more than a dozen former players and four former coaches from the school in Daytona Beach, Florida.

With one exception, they independently provided nearly identical details of rules violations and what they felt was Jenkins' mistreatment of players.

Allegations against Jenkins and his program include:

•Improper benefits provided to players;

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