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An overflow crowd watches Saban's Bama debut - Espn.com
Nick Saban is already filling Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium -- and then some.
An overflow crowd of 92,138-plus fans attended the Crimson Tide's spring game Saturday, nearly doubling the school's A-Day attendance record and forcing university officials to start turning people away in the first half. That kind of turnout for essentially a scrimmage was yet another indication of how much Saban's hiring in January has stirred up a rabid fan base hungry for a championship. "It shows the passion that people have for the University of Alabama, and it certainly makes me feel great about being here as head coach," Saban said.

Alabama fans win argument - Chattanooga Times Free Press
One of the best SEC football arguments is among fans from different regions arguing why their school is the most passionate. Tennessee fans will nod toward the Vol Navy and point to huge crowds inside Neyland Stadium. Florida and Auburn fans will cup their ears, a signal to acknowledge the deafening noise. A Georgia fan would describe the tailgating scene on North Campus. And so on. It's a great argument because there's no winner. Almost every SEC school boasts tradition, huge attendance figures and exuberant tailgaters who arrive on Wednesday for a Saturday game. There's no statistic to anoint one school definitively the most passionate about football. Well, until this one: 92,138. The argument is over. There were 92,138 Alabama fans packed into Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday for a televised spring game, and officials had to turn people away in the second quarter. "I hate they did that," Alabama defensive lineman Wallace Gilberry said. "I wish the fans could have flooded the place out." All this for a glorified practice. Allen Iverson would be astounded by this turnout. More than 90,000 for practice? We're talking about practice? And that's why Saturday's A-Day game, won 20-13 by the White team, was so bittersweet. A crowd like this makes the SEC so great. But it also ends one of my favorite arguments. We have a winner, and they were wearing crimson and white Saturday afternoon.

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92,138 attend Alabama spring game - AJC
Kayla McCoy and her dad, Stephen, arrived at Gate 6 of Bryant-Denny Stadium at 9 a.m.
The gate wouldn't open until 11 a.m. For a spring football game that wouldn't start until 1:05 p.m. "We just think that this is going to be a historic day," said Kayla, from Dothan, Ala. "We just wanted to be first in line to see it." Kayla didn't know how right she was. Hope is a powerful emotion. So powerful that it brought a crowd of 92,138-plus to Bryant-Denny on one of the most perfect Saturday afternoons you'll ever see. Alabama officials, expecting about 60,000 fans for Nick Saban's much-anticipated first spring game as coach, had to stop them from entering the stuffed stadium in the second quarter. The NCAA doesn't keep records on such things, but it is believed to be the largest spring-game crowd in college football history. It beat the SEC record of 73,000 set by Tennessee in 1986 and dwarfed school-record Saturday turnouts at Penn State (71,000) and Notre Dame (51,852). If there was any doubt that Saban, who took over as coach in January, was worth the $4 million Alabama is paying him, well, there's less of it now. You just can't put a price on this kind of excitement.

Standing room only Alabama draws 92,000 for Saban's first spring game - Sports Illustrated
(This was an AP article run in various papers across the country)
Nick Saban is already filling Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium -- and then some. An overflow crowd of 92,138-plus fans attended the Crimson Tide's spring game Saturday, nearly doubling the school's A-Day attendance record and forcing university officials to start turning people away in the first half. That kind of turnout for essentially a scrimmage was yet another indication of how much Saban's hiring in January has stirred up a rabid fan base hungry for a championship. "It shows the passion that people have for the University of Alabama, and it certainly makes me feel great about being here as head coach," Saban said.

Two extremes of college football fanaticism: SU, 'Bama - Syracuse Post Standard
In "The Longest Day," that dusty flick detailing the invasion of Normandy, an American officer (played by John Wayne) and a German commandant (played by Curt Jurgens) mutter to colleagues at different times, "Sometimes I wonder which side God is on." I was reminded of those cinematic musings while mulling the stunning crowd sizes at Saturday's spring football games at the University of Alabama (92,138) and here at SU (maybe 2,000). Because at all times, and leaving God for other matters, I wonder which side gets it when it comes to the chin-strapped set. The greater Tuscaloosa area has a population of some 120,000. Greater Syracuse weighs in around 700,000. And yet, the Crimson Tide drew a gathering 46 times larger than did SU. Perhaps even more revealing, the Orange would have needed roughly 537,000 fans to descend upon the Carrier Dome Saturday afternoon to proportionally match the 'Bama house at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Ask one of our former football coaches around here about that and he'd likely blurt, "That's out of whack." But which way? Are those lunatics with a hobby who follow the Tide, or are they loyal supporters of the cause? Is our community filled with apathetic mopes, or with savvy folks bearing discriminating enough taste to recognize a meaningless scrimmage when it is hawked, barker style, in front of them? "We," said Alabama quarterback John Parker Wilson, "were standing around there, like, 'Man, there's a lot of people here.' We didn't expect that."

CECIL HURT: Biggest A-Day changes visible to all - Cecil Hurt, Tuscaloosa News
It was the best seat in the house – an enviable position when every one of the 92,318 seats in the house are full.Nick Saban invited a half-dozen reporters to be “media coaches” for Saturday’s A-Day game at Bryant-Denny Stadium. In a wise move by Saban, that invitation didn’t involve any actual coaching decisions. Instead, it just gave those reporters (myself included) an up-close look at what we had really only gotten a far-away glimpse at all spring: the University of Alabama football team.What was fascinating about the day wasn’t just the chance to watch the team on the field, although the game itself – won by the White team, 20-13 – had its revelatory moments. Blocking and tackling, catching and running, are pretty much the same, year in and year our, regardless of the vantage point from which you are watching. But a few things were obvious.

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