A-day

“And don’t forget — and this is true — Joe Biden was actually alive back when D-Day happened. And I’m pretty sure when A-Day, B-Day and C-Day happened, too.”

His unofficial debut at Bryant-Denny Stadium drew an announced crowd of 72,358 for the A-Day game, nearly 2,000 more than Husky Stadium’s capacity at Washington.

Saban’s first A-Day scrimmage drew a then-capacity 92,138 fans in 2007, but he arrived for a program on a 15-year national title drought with a championship of his own on the resume at LSU.

Freeze is set to wrap up his first spring on the Plains on Saturday with those endeavors very much in progress, and wants to emphasize to fans attending the A-Day scrimmage that “unrealistic expectations lead to frustration.”

A 75-yard touchdown run in the spring A-Day scrimmage in front of fans certainly didn’t hurt his case.