Nick Saban reveals how Miss Terry revolutionized Alabama gamedays in Tuscaloosa

Nick Saban has always said that his wife Miss Terry was a vital part of his success at Alabama. Friday afternoon on The Pat McAfee Show, he detailed how Miss Terry helped improve the gameday environment at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

As she was going on road trips with Saban and the Alabama football program, Miss Terry was always paying attention to what happened at other schools on game days. She would then arrive home and make suggestions to Nick Saban as far as ways to improve Bryant-Denny Stadium. They were usually implemented to improve the environment for Crimson Tide home games.

“It was really dry when we first went to Alabama and everywhere we’d go, Miss Terry went to all the away games. Everywhere we’d go she would come back and say, ‘Why don’t we do that? Why don’t we play this music during that? Why don’t we have these lights?’” Nick Saban recalled. “And it’s entertaining. And people sing songs and light up their phone at the same time and do the wave. I mean that’s the fun of the game that I think keeps people engaged, excited and enthusiastic. And I think it’s very important.”

Nick Saban was always laser focused on making sure his teams were as prepared as possible, but he also understood the importance of keeping the crowd engaged during games.

“It matters a whole bunch, because you know, you’ve got dead time in the game. You know, you’ve got these 4 minute commercials. You’ve got 2.5 minute commercials. But, you know, this is the entertainment business. And to keep people engaged you have to have other things going on in the game,” Saban said.

Thankfully for him and Alabama, Miss Terry was there to lend a helping hand.

“Well, I think that I realized that it’s the entertainment business. But I also wanted to keep the team and the thing that you had to do with the team to get the team ready to play, and sort of create the culture and the organization that you needed to have, not to allow that to be affected by the entertainment business,” Saban said.

“I always tried to keep those two things separate, but I also knew as a coach you needed to do that to promote the program, to get recruits, so that people had an image of what the program was all about.”