Former Alabama running back Damien Harris ripped current Alabama safety Malachi Moore for his behavior at the end of Saturday’s loss to Vanderbilt — and also criticized Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer for his response.
Harris, who now serves as an analyst for CBS Sports HQ, made the comments to The Athletic’s podcast Until Saturday.
“I can tell y’all what would have happened in the days that I was there,” Harris said. “We would have tried to rip the ‘C’ off his jersey. We would have lit him up. From every coach, every player, Reuben Foster, Minkah Fitzpatrick, Daron Payne, Jalen Hurts, Jerry Jeudy. Everybody would have been on this dude’s head, like, we don’t do that.
“Like, if we go out there and we get beat, we’re going to handle all of our issues internally. But no guy is bigger and above this program, so you don’t get to act like that.”
Harris then pointed the finger at DeBoer.
“I’m gonna tell y’all exactly why [Moore] feels like he can act like that,” Harris said. “You go and look at what Kalen DeBoer said in his postgame press conference about Malachi Moore. ‘Oh, well he’s one of our guys, and he’s one of our leaders. Yeah, we expect him to use this and only bring positivity the rest of the season.’ Man, damn that! What’s up with that? Nick Saban would have said that? No! That’s bullsh—. That don’t help you win games. That does not help you control the talent and the level of guys that you’ve never coached before, guys that you’ve never had experience with, at a program that you don’t know what it takes to win these kinds of games.
“You just come in here and try to be everybody’s buddy-buddy. Try to be everybody’s friend. Well what does that get you? That gets you beat against Vandy on the road.”
