[blam]

"Even Nick Saban was complaining about the empty student seats during some of the Bama home games."

I think those are free seats to the students.
I read up on Bryant-Denny stadium (University of Alabama) but it didn't say one way or the other.
I didn't know that the stadium there was the 7th largest in the world.

[edhawk]

Student seats aren’t free at Bama. Freshman have to pick which half of the home games they want to attend and don’t get to go to all home games.