Former Alabama wide receivers coach Billy Napier is apparently using his experiences in Tuscaloosa to fuel him at his new offensive coordinator job at Arizona State. Ironically enough, joining Napier at ASU is another former member of the Crimson Tide football program, Blake Barnett. Together, the two will get a chance to show what they can do in the Pac-12.

According to a report from CBS’s Dennis Dodd, Napier being passed over at Alabama is being used in a constructive way in Tempe, says his new boss. Per his new boss, Arizona State head coach Todd Graham, things didn’t exactly end the way Napier planned in Tuscaloosa.

“I think Billy was pissed because he was passed over [at Alabama for Steve] Sarkisian and all that,” Graham said.

After serving on the Alabama staff since 2011, Napier left following the Tide’s title game loss to Clemson when he was not considered for the offensive coordinator job. When incumbent OC Lane Kiffin left for FAU during Alabama’s playoff run, it was Steve Sarkisian, not Napier, that was named the interim and eventual full-time OC before being plucked out of Tuscaloosa to join the Atlanta Falcons. Sarkisian had been with the Alabama staff for less than a year, but his pedigree earned with Washington and USC was apparently enough to give him the edge over the younger Napier.

By the time the Tide began the search for Sarkisian’s replacement, Napier was already gone.

Now at Arizona State with Barnett, the pair of former members of the Crimson Tide will seek to prove that Nick Saban was wrong about them.