Nick Saban wants Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium to be more like Texas A&M’s Kyle Field.
On his Thursday night radio show, the Crimson Tide head coach detailed his impressions of the atmosphere last weekend in College Station, where Alabama won 41-23 in front of more than 105,000 fans.
Saban was impressed with what he saw.
"It was tough over there, but I'll say this about Texas A&M. And I appreciate this and I hope our fans can hear this because this is the kind of place we should be,” Saban said, per Al.com. “You know this is the first place we've played for a long, long time that we never got booed when we came out. First place. Alright, I'm telling you. It was a really nice facility. They had 105,000 people and they cheered their tail off for their team and they made it hard for us to play."
A two-year renovation project at Kyle Field was completed before the start of this season, giving a different feel compared Alabama’s last game there in 2013. The project raised the stadium’s capacity past the 100,000 mark and Saturday’s game drew a sold out crowd of 105,733.
Saban said that huge crowd made a difference in the game, noting that the offense had a few false start penalties and snapping issues.
"Their fans really did affect the game and it says a lot about our players to keep their poise and focus when they got the momentum of the game for us to get it back and continue to stay focused," Saban said.
Saban encouraged Alabama fans to do the same, especially against teams that use a fast-paced offense with a lot of communication at the line of scrimmage before the snap.
"I think these teams, when they go fastball and they try to run no-huddle, I think it really does affect them and slow them down a little bit if we can create a lot of noise when they have the ball," Saban said. "You can really be supportive of our team and I'm anticipating that because I can tell you we practiced this today. We usually use noise for the offense when we play on the road. We did noise for the defense today in anticipation that you will be making noise when they have the ball and our players on defense won't be able to communicate."
The win over A&M improved the Tide’s record to 6-1 on the season with Tennessee making the trip to Tuscaloosa on Saturday.
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