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CHAPEL HILL -- Five players have left the North Carolina football program and four freshmen have enrolled early, a team spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
Running back Jamal Womble, linebacker Hawatha Bell, tight end Vince Jacobs, wide receiver Rashad Mason and tight end Randy White will not return for the 2010 season.
However, freshmen offensive linemen James Hurst, a five-star recruit from Plainfield, Ind., and Terrence Leifheit, a four-star recruit from Wilmington, along with tight end Sean Fitzpatrick from Pittsford, N.Y., and cornerback D.J. Bunn, who transferred from Hargrave Military Academy, all have enrolled for UNC's spring semester.
Womble, a redshirt freshman, cited academic problems on his Facebook page and said he will transfer to a junior college. Womble had six carries for 41 yards in three games this season before breaking his right wrist against Georgia Southern.
Bell, a freshman, was suspended for the Meineke Car Care Bowl on Dec. 26 for violating team rules and ultimately dismissed from the team.
Jacobs decided to forego his final year of eligibility and will graduate in May. Mason, a sophomore, decided to transfer after being suspended indefinitely earlier in the season for violating team rules, and redshirt freshman White quit the team and is leaving UNC.
Bell, Jacobs, Mason and White had no statistics for the 2009 season.
