If not for Mal Moore, the Alabama football dynasty under Nick Saban may have never occurred. Take it from Saban himself.
The Crimson Tide head football coach dedicated a portion of his spring practice media availability on Thursday to talk about Moore’s impact on the program and honored Moore on the 10-year anniversary of his death.
“Can’t tell you how many things that are great sort of lessons and how much gratitude we have for the lessons that I learned from him and the things he did to support to help the program and help us get it turned around. Just a thought that everybody might say a prayer for Mal.” Moore, as Saban explained, was essential in Saban’s hire and the two developed a close relationship throughout the early stages of Alabama’s six national-championship seasons under Saban. When asked for his favorite Moore tale, Saban played one of the hits, referring to one of their Sunday conversations during a film review from the 2007 season.
“And at like every Sunday about 3:00 in the afternoon he’d come in and just sit down and I was complaining to him about — when Mark Ingram was here his sophomore year, he’d carry the ball in the wrong arm a lot. Well, he was having a really, really good year and we were having a good year and I said something to Mal. I said, ‘I don’t know how we’re going to get this guy to carry the ball in the right hand.
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