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Inside of coach Nick Saban's office following last season, Alabama defensive lineman Darren Lake sat and listened as Saban expressed his displeasured regarding Lake's play, told Lake he needed to lose weight and presented the now senior nose tackle with an ultimatum.
"Saban told him, 'If you don't get the job done, I'm going to move you to the offensive line,'" Lake's high school coach, Andre Pickering, told AL.com.
That meeting, Pickering said, motivated Lake, who proceeded to drop 10-15 pounds and enters the fall as Alabama's first-team nose tackle in the Tide's base defense.