COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Two days ago, Texas A&M volleyball coach Jamie Morrison stood alone in the Reed Arena student section. Behind him was a cavernous wall of vacant maroon seats. In the social media video shot in that moment, his raspy baritone voice echoes in the emptiness.

It doesn’t matter that Morrison used the video to announce free student tickets to this weekend’s NCAA Tournament first and second round games at Reed Arena. The Aggie student section had taken to the third-year college volleyball coach well before the gesture, of which he is footing part of the bill, as evident by the raucous cheers when he takes the court or the enlarged cutouts of his bald and bearded head that floats above the Reed Arena stands.

“I hate being the center of attention, so whenever they’

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