ASU not scrapping up-tempo with Tide

JONESBORO -- Giant cubes of speakers sat along an end zone's edge of Arkansas State University's outdoor parallel practice fields where a man with a smart phone and an auxiliary cable controlled the mood and vigor of any specific minute of ASU's Wednesday evening practice.

In this instance, "Buy U A Drank" by famed hip-hop artist T-Pain buoyed this practice and gave it life.

Many of the players danced and loudly bellowed the lyrics, while the man tethered to the phone of control often cut the tunes short to jerk to another song. More dancing followed.

Music fueled energy as ASU prepared for Saturday's 2:30 p.m. Central meeting against No. 1 Alabama in the Tide's home opener at Bryant-Denny…