Nick Saban was not a fan of Diego Pavia practicing the victory formation ahead of Vanderbilt taking on Alabama football earlier this season.
Pavia practiced kneeling with the football as he warmed up before taking on the Crimson Tide. Saban got wind of this, and it ‘pissed’ him off, per Pat McAfee.
“I love Diego, but that would have been a catastrophic player-coach relationship moment before the game,” Saban said on Friday. “I never wanted our players to ever do anything, I didn’t even let them talk to the other team, I never wanted them to do anything that was going to affect the other team’s motivation to beat us.”
Alabama went on to beat Vanderbilt 30-14 in Tuscaloosa. Pavia completed 21 of his 35 passes for 198 yards in the defeat.
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