Changes coming to Bryant-Denny Stadium after player crashes into fence

By Michael Casagrande mcasagrande@al.com

A scary moment in Saturday's game will lead to changes at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Alabama linebacker Dylan Moses went barreling into the fence near the corner of the end zone on a play that extended beyond the white lines. He was down for a few moments before walking to the bench and returning to the Tide's 45-23 win over Texas A&M.

Nick Saban on Monday said it's being corrected.

"They're going to try to do some stuff to the stadium there to shave that little corner off a little bit and pad it up a little better," Saban said. "That was something that, after being here all these years, I never even noticed that until that play. That is definitely something that we are addressing."

Moses was covering tight end Jace Sternberger when he went flying toward the fence. A security guard standing against the fence took a direct shot to the knees when Moses hit him into the padded wall.

Only a few feet separate the painted sideline and the fence that angles toward the field at that point.

Moses on Monday said he's still a little sore but knows it could have been worse.

"As far as the security guard, I feel sorry for him," Moses said. "But if it wasn't for him, I'd probably be in the hospital right now because he was really in between the wall and me. I know I ran into his like knee, that was pretty bad, gruesome."

This isn't the first incident with Alabama players hitting fences near the end zone. Receiver Keith Brown hit a barrier in the opposite end zone on the same side of the field in 2004. He had to be stretchered off the field with a shoulder injury.