98° P/SUNNY, Quarterback Jimmy Barnes leaving Crimson Tide
Last Modified: Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 12:19 a.m.
TUSCALOOSA | Sophomore quarterback Jimmy Barnes has decided to leave the University of Alabama football team to pursue his career at another school.
Barnes will enroll at a Division I-AA school in the fall, but has yet to
decide which one. He has three years of eligibility remaining.
Barnes, who was second on the depth chart after Marc Guillon left school midway through last season, wasn’t able to participate in contact drills during spring practice. Instead, freshman Greg McElroy worked behind junior
starter John Parker Wilson.
There are no other scholarship quarterbacks on the roster, although incoming freshman Nick Fanuzzi (6-foot-3, 200 pounds) out of San Antonio, Texas, was a part of Nick Saban’s first recruiting class.
Reach Christopher Walsh at christopher.walsh@tuscaloosanews.com or at
205-722-0196.
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