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The Price of Leadership: Nick Saban didn’t care for his 2013 Alabama team either

Quick!

Gun to your head: What phrase would you use to describe the 2013 squad, a stacked veteran iteration of the Tide that could have pulled off an unprecedented modern-era three-peat...but that instead wound up finishing the season with a 12-2 record, and a second-place SEC-West finish.

Entitled? Waste? Potential? Leaderless?
Maybe it’s a play — like Kick Six?
Maybe it’s a coaching failure, like #RTDB?

We know that team wasted scads of NFL talent and another title against the weakest field of the BCS era. We know Alabama was the cream of the nation that season, and only played against itself when it stepped on the field.