Saban shuts the door during SEC Media Day

We all know Coach Saban is the last person you want to stand in front of when getting punished. He's like the strict dad who you don't want to face after you put a baseball through your neighbor's window. However, at the end of the day, Coach Saban has rolled the tide to 4 national championships since taking the title of head coach in 2007. So he must be doing something right, right? Why dare start questioning his ways?

Paul Finebaum made this mistake during SEC Media Day on Wednesday when trying to discuss the punishment following the Cam Robinson (OL) and Hootie Jones (DB) case. Saban proceeded to shut the door right in his face.

"Well, I don't really care to answer the critics," said Saban.
"Good for you, Coach, because the critics are not the ones running your team," said Alexa Paige.

I think Saban has developed a favorite word to use when commenting on players punishments: internal. And in my opinion, its the best word for a coach to use. Is the media on the field coaching alongside of you during games? No. Are they blowing the whistle at practice telling your men to run faster? No. So their opinions are their opinions. We all have them. Let them talk. Their words are not going anywhere except for providing their talk shows with content.

And while the media is gossiping over the "right and wrong" of the actions of Saban and other coaches in college football, the coaches are handling it, internally. It's not like he is turning the other way and letting them all run havoc. I don't think we will ever know all "team rules" Alabama has in place, but once a single one gets broken, the hammer comes down. Four words: Tony Brown, Cotton Bowl.

The media has tried to control our society for years now. We have seen it in the news every time they decide what we should and should not see. When they decide how much emphasis to put on one story versus another. Trust me, I want to be a broadcaster, I've studied these tactics.

That's right. I want to have a career in media and meanwhile, I will be the first to say that we think we have all this control over everything that happens. As broadcasters, our job is to report the latest happenings in sport. So yeah, sometimes we get carried away, get heated, and go a little too far. But at the end of the day, these coaches were hired to do a job and to do it how they choose.

It was announced on June 20 that the charges against Robinson and Jones were dropped. Saban is not suspending them because legally they did nothing wrong. But are you forgetting he is handling it internally?! That's right, Saban punishment. Trust me, he's got it under control, even if we aren't seeing it first-hand.