Nick Saban explains his animated reaction to his team's 'horns down' celebration. “It's not classy. We don't need to degrade the other team's traditions.' More from Tony_Tsoukalas:
Seconds after surviving an upset scare against Texas last weekend, Alabama players wasted no time showing off in front of a sea of burnt orange.
The Crimson Tide’s sideline was feeling itself. That is until it felt the wrath of its head coach. Upon seeing the “horns down” celebration, Nick Saban went off, tearing into his players for what he views as a lack of class.
“I told our players, 'We're not doing this, don't do it,” Saban said of the hand symbol “It's not classy. We don't need to degrade the other team's traditions. Just go play.' So I saw somebody doing it after the game, and I said, 'Don't do that... stuff.'" “Everything time you think you’re not doing the right thing — and most people who don’t do the right thing know it’s not the right thing before they do it, they just do it anyway. So, don’t do that stuff,” Saban said. “We need to have that as a motto. Maybe that will help the discipline.”