What is the Final Song Ryan Grubb Plays on Game Day?

Coaches and athletes are frequently routine-oriented and, some may argue, superstitious. Ryan Fowler of Tide100.9 in Tuscaloosa was given access to one of Alabama offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb’s pregame rituals, as the Crimson Tide fan base is keen to learn more about the program’s new playcaller.

Grubb told the audience that Metallica’s “Seek and Destroy” had a special place on the offensive coordinator’s pregame playlist as they welcomed him into the radio interview.

“Yeah, absolutely,” Grubb said. “It absolutely does. Well, that is one of them right there. ‘Seek and Destroy’ by Metallica. That is definitely one of them. Every stadium for the last, quite a few years now, that I roll up to, that’s the last song I listen to when the bus is pulling up. It just gets the mind right and gets you ready to go.”

There are numerous ways to describe Metallica’s music, but the band’s style is essentially aggression expressed via music. According to Grubb, that’s also how he wants his offensive to be perceived.

“I think that there’s kind of two ways to go about it. You obviously have to be respectful of any team that you’re on and the situation you’re in offensively and the type of defense you have, controlling the football at the right time and things like that,” Grubb said. “But without question, we want people to pop our film on every week and look at it and know that they’re going to have to defend every inch of the field and that the ball at some point is going to get down the field. That is something that we’ve been able to do for quite a few years at a lot of different stops and making sure that our receivers and the type of players that we have can match that and we certainly have that at Alabama.”