🏈 Angry with small crowd, Nick Saban says Alabama students not 'entitled to anything'

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Duke Bluedevil fans show up to capacity, and scream their heads off the entirety of every game no matter who they play. Coach k says it's great for recruiting, and an advantage for his team.

Bama fans have never been all that great. They're not even the best fans in the state. There is a reason auburn pulls all those upsets off in their house - they have great fans. No idea how/why Auburn has better fans than Bama, but they do. Their fans make the atmosphere much more difficult to play in for opponents.

So what you're saying is that the entire fan base is spoiled from all the winning.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I will just take this from my own house.... I have a 24 year old Daughter and a 15 year old son... the latter said Roll Tide before he said MOMMA (something I still pay for). They both have been huge Bama fans their entire lives. This weekend, my daughter came home for a visit. So... just like the old days.... the wife, the 2 kids and I were excited about watching the Bama game. I was thrilled to have my whole family together. Before the half....the daughter was gone... outside, in the kitchen, on her phone....everywhere and everthing except for the ball game. When the 3rd quarter started, I lost my son to his laptop and youtube. Now note that this is a smart kid, but far from nerdy. He is athletic, likes sports and the outdoors.... just lost interest in the game. I wanted to scream at them...force them to watch it.... but that wouldn't have the right move. I said all of this to get to this....

Kids today just don't seem to care about sports like they did. There are other, more interesting things for them to do with the swipe of a finger. It's a sign of the times and when you have a school full of smart kids, away from their parents and a football team that has conditioned them to winning, it shows. If we were in tight games every week and still pulling out wins, it MIGHT get a little better. As it is... I suspect it will take getting the Greek side of things involved and riding the kids to come to the games. God forbid the espn cameras show it if they succeed....they will catch a bunch of kids still not knowing what the hell is going on.

The solution is to make them prove they are using their student tickets.... if they cannot....they lose them and go to those fans that want to come. It's sad really, but in effort to maintain full disclosure here... I am a tide pride ticket holder and find myself going to less and less games. I give my tickets away to the smaller games and still make the trek for the larger ones. 10 years ago...you couldn't keep me out of Tuscaloosa on game day. 20 years ago, I would be there from Friday until Sunday night. Yep....the times....they are a changin'.

The Greeks aren't gonna do shit.

THEY are the problem...

If the upper deck is empty, it’s not just Greeks not showing.

 

[T&B]

Duke Bluedevil fans show up to capacity, and scream their heads off the entirety of every game no matter who they play. Coach k says it's great for recruiting, and an advantage for his team.

Bama fans have never been all that great. They're not even the best fans in the state. There is a reason auburn pulls all those upsets off in their house - they have great fans. No idea how/why Auburn has better fans than Bama, but they do. Their fans make the atmosphere much more difficult to play in for opponents.

So what you're saying is that the entire fan base is spoiled from all the winning.

I'd like to believe that, but Duke basketball has been dominating for 20+ years, and yet every year their stadium seems to get louder and more hostile. The Green Bay Packers are sold out for the next 1,000 years, and their fans have to stand in -50 degree temperatures while screaming their heads off, and some of them do it shirtless to prove their mettle.

Alabama players posted videos from the Penn State vs Ohio State game basically saying "it must be nice to get this kind of support."

The LSU fans will register on seismographs for five-hundred miles away when Bama comes to play in November. We've all seen the kinda frenzy the barners get themselves all riled up into.

CNS said he felt like the amount of "team spirit" had actually diminished during his time in TTown. He went on to say that the fans couldn't even bother to applaud for the starting lineups anymore.

The amount of effort the fans put into team spirit, is not matching the effort displayed by the football team on the field.

Here is the question to really be concerned with that CNS put forth during the presser, "at what point is it not special to be here anymore?"

Don't think for a moment that question does not pertain to CNS himself, and all the five star players we'd all like to see play here.

 

[BamaFan334]

Duke Bluedevil fans show up to capacity, and scream their heads off the entirety of every game no matter who they play. Coach k says it's great for recruiting, and an advantage for his team.

Bama fans have never been all that great. They're not even the best fans in the state. There is a reason auburn pulls all those upsets off in their house - they have great fans. No idea how/why Auburn has better fans than Bama, but they do. Their fans make the atmosphere much more difficult to play in for opponents.

I think it's also a capacity issue. Auburn holds what, 85,000-86000, Alabama holds almost 102,000. To me, at some point, the view gets awful and you want to build that warm coming down on you type feel like Auburn has. It's all getting too commercialized. Just look at the pre-season questionnaire the Athletic Department sent out, the new $650M initiative sent out, and look at how many gripe about the internet service from within the stadium. The game is being turned away from the field and more about amenities like it's a damn hotel or vacation destination. I'm at fault in this just like most others with the internet, but hate all the screens and all that jazz.