re: Bama students/ fans make Damien Harris sad

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My logic is always: I only get to do this 7 times a year, so enjoy every second.

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Yea, I just don't quite get it. I understand things are different, but even crappy games were better than the alternative to me 10 years ago. At least for a half or 3 qtrs. And like you said, there are only 7 of them, and you only get 4 years of it before you are in the real world and it costs money and is hard. And in my day we sucked arse.

I don't know, it's just a bit frustrating to see such total apathy.

Hell, we used to drive to Bham to see shitty games at 11am.

Getting out of bed hungover and making that trek was not easy.

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nd this is why we're removing that upper deck.

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for real? IS anything going in its place?

AU had the same issue just not as bad due to size of the student section. They were giving wristbands away begging the students who did come to sit in the lower part where the fraternities and sororities have block seating. Of course after a 2.5 hour weather delay it pretty much turned into a HS game size attendance. Only reason I stuck around is because I was getting paid 30 bucks an hour for security to sit on my arse and watch football.

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I think it has more to do with the spoiled brat students. All they've ever known is Saban.

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True, but it's endemic to many other programs as well. LSU has always had fairweather student section even when I was there in late 90's-2000's. Those football games made my weekends.....of what I remember

I don't recall a mass exodus of students at Kyle when I was there last. At all.

It happens everywhere. I will say A&M is fairly good at sticking around and watching most of the game even when it's not the best product. I can promise you our student section doesn't look anything like that at kick off. We have over 30,000 students for pretty much every game.

The student section wasn't nearly that empty at kickoff but was certainly not full. They were streaming out in the 2nd quarter and at the half. My family and I were sitting next to the student section in the upper deck (and are probably in that photo somewhere). It was a warm day and the 11 am kickoff against a cupcake didn't help.

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Sorry Damien dont blame the fans though, blame your athletic department and university for scheduling jr high OOC teams

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or simply blame the availability to watch every single game in HD from the comfort of your living room. That is the biggest reason attendance numbers are down everywhere. It isn't so much the opponents but that it's expensive to go to all of the games and, unlike the way things used to be, you don't have to attend to be able to watch your team. I'm not even that old (33), and when I was growing up, unless you were Notre Dame, you were lucky to be on TV more than 3-4 times a season. There were typically no more than 4 total games on TV every week, 1 on CBS, ESPN, ESPN 2 and JP Sports.

And as it pertains to specifically Alabama, I'm sure plenty of people are have grown bored watching blowouts, which is the majority of Alabama's games now.

Sorry we're bigger and better.