Student attendance at Alabama football games has been a sore subject for a while, but it became a full-blown controversy on Wednesday when head coach Nick Saban got involved.
In response to a question at his post-practice news conference regarding fan reaction to quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Saban used the opportunity to launch into a monologue expressing disappointment with the half-empty student section at last Saturday's home game with Louisiana-Lafayette. He also implied that perhaps those seats should be made available to the general public if students aren't going to use them.
"I don't think (students are) entitled to anything either," Saban said in part.