A-Day commentary: More than anything, this was a new Alabama
By Jess Nicholas
TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2007
There was a point in the first half of Saturday’s A-Day spring scrimmage game where virtually every seat in Bryant-Denny Stadium was full, the concrete walkways covered in standing-room-only patrons, and more wishful souls stacked so deep in the tunnels that no daylight could get through from behind.
Although they were all in Tuscaloosa to see Alabama play, most were there – they hoped – to see the start of a new era, the Nick Saban era, which Crimson Tide fans hope will produce, if not the best football on campus in 25 years, at least a level of competence not seen since Gene Stallings retired in 1996.
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By Jess Nicholas
TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2007
There was a point in the first half of Saturday’s A-Day spring scrimmage game where virtually every seat in Bryant-Denny Stadium was full, the concrete walkways covered in standing-room-only patrons, and more wishful souls stacked so deep in the tunnels that no daylight could get through from behind.
Although they were all in Tuscaloosa to see Alabama play, most were there – they hoped – to see the start of a new era, the Nick Saban era, which Crimson Tide fans hope will produce, if not the best football on campus in 25 years, at least a level of competence not seen since Gene Stallings retired in 1996.
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