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After spending around a year inside the Alabama football program and the life of Alabama head coach Nick Saban, 60 Minutes reporter Armen Keteyian’s profile on “the most dominant program in America,” and its coach aired on CBS (after a little delay due to the end of the Patriots-Steelers game).

Here the highlights from the profile.

– In the intro, Saban had a particularly striking quote in (of surely many) interviews with Keteyian: “Mediocre people don’t like high achievers and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.”

– Stories about the treatment of 9/11 co-conspirators and the Lamborghini were aired before the Saban profile. Twitter bided its time by cracking jokes.

– I still remember when D.J. Fluker first opened our world to the Get Your Mind Right song. The first revelation from the feature is that the team sings that song as they wait to run out of the tunnel at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

– Saban in a practice: “You’re not getting anything out of this because you’re not doing it right.” His intensity is shown throughout, especially picking on freshman quarterback Eddie Jackson.

– Vinnie Sunseri remembers a time when he forgot a play in a practice. Sunseri said Saban threw his straw hat at him, “like Zorro.” Saban responded: “You messed up my hat!”

– The Shove from Barrett Jones to AJ McCarron in last year’s BCS National Championship game is used by the feature as the most telling play of The Process.

– The feature goes back to Saban’s roots in West Virginia, on a Pop Warner team Saban had an influence on called the Black Diamonds. Saban’s father coached the team. Predictably, his days helping his dad at the gas station came up. Saban says washing navy and other darker cars to his father’s perfection was difficult.

– Saban’s last conversation with his dad was telling him that he thinks coaching is the thing for him. Saban’s dad passed away later that week.

– Saban on saying he would not coach Alabama while with the Miami Dolphins: “In the end, it effected my integrity as a person by saying one thing and doing something else.” UA chancellor Robert Witt follows that up with the following: “Nick Saban is the best financial investment we have ever made.”

– Here’s the Miss Terry reference. They show a film of Saban greeting Mrs. Saban after the win on-the-road at Texas A&M.

– The Texas A&M win got showcased again. As did Saban’s speech after the game.

– The segment ends with Keteyian announcing the plan to continue the series, going into why Alabama is the most fit team in the nation (strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochran) on Wednesday night’s show, televised on ShowTime.