Opinion: When Nick Saban warns of a reckoning, as he did after Mercer game, listen up

When Alabama football coach Nick Saban starts taking about his years growing up in the hard backbone country of West Virginia, his father intent on teaching him lessons that might mean a college education and not a life in the coal mines, pay attention. 

When he slams a podium the way his father would pound a dining room table if chores had been shirked or the job that young Nick had done at the Saban filling station where he worked had fallen short of standards, something is about to happen. It may not be something good.