Some teams are careful to avoid providing their opponents with bulletin-board material, but Texas A&M offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone is skirting that line this week.
Speaking with the media on Tuesday, Mazzone decided to poke a little fun at the atmosphere in Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium during game days.
“It’s a good game day environment,” he said, according to 247Sports. “Not as good as here, but I don’t want to be Rosen and have them chanting my name.”
UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen commented before his team’s season opener at Texas A&M that 100,000 people in College Station didn’t sound much different than 50,000 people. The Aggies faithful responded by chanting his name throughout the team’s 31-24 overtime victory.
Mazzone coached at Auburn from 1999 to 2001 and made sure to give the Tigers the proper respect.
“It’s SEC football,” Mazzone said. “I told the kids the other day how lucky they are. I’ve coached in places where there are 15,000 in the stands and how lucky they are to play in these kind of venues week in and week out, and that’s just another great venue in the SEC.”
No. 17 Texas A&M takes on Auburn at 7 p.m. ET and can be seen on ESPN.
