If you’re an Alabama student who can’t wait to roll with the Crimson Tide at Bryant-Denny Stadium next season, better take a number.

The university’s CRIMSON WHITE newspaper (via EDSBS) reports that only 16% of the stadium’s seats are allotted to the Tuscaloosa enrollment, the 3rd smallest allotment in the football-fanatical SEC.

But school officials argue that while a small percentage is set aside, UA students are given more opportunities to buy seats:

Out of the approximately 23,000 students at the Capstone, 65 percent have the ability to buy tickets. The next-highest percentage is the University of Tennessee, which gives 56 percent of its students a chance to purchase tickets.

But the CW (the school paper, not the TV network) cautions that the future doesn’t look too bright for football fans in the student body:

Without expansion of the student section in Bryant-Denny Stadium, however, that percentage will decrease as the Capstone expands its enrollment.

Oh, the horror! Wonder what national disaster coach Nick Saban will compare this impeding ticket terror to.

And what’s up with using “Capstone“? Is “School” too abstract a concept?