Nick Saban explains why suspending 12 players was the necessary turning point that paved the way for an undefeated season "We probably had 12 players suspended, you know, for that game. Probably more than half of them starters." "I'm not sure if we didn't do that to fix some of the discipline problems that we had internally on the team... I don't think we'd have gone 12 and 0 the next year." "Believing in the process and how everybody had to do things to a standard and to a certain principle and value that you'd established in the organization was paramount in having long-term success."