Nick Saban had heard enough. The former Alabama football coach, serving in his new role as an analyst for ESPN’s College Gameday, was asked about Ohio State fans pressuring Buckeye head coach Ryan Day for his losses to Michigan.

The man who won six national titles in Tuscaloosa offered up full support for the embattled coach, whose OSU team will face Tennessee in the College Football Playoff Saturday.

“I think every coach has gotta define how he wants to do it, and I have a lot of respect for Ryan Day and how he’s tried to do it,” Saban said from the show’s set in South Bend, before the Notre Dame vs. Indiana CFP game. “For me, I always wanted to get every player in the organization to reach their full potential, so it wasn’t so much about the outcome, it was what you had to do to make everybody better.”

The Buckeyes are the No. 8 seed in the CFP, and will face the Volunteers in Columbus Saturday. Still, the playoff bid and chance to go win a national championship are not enough for some Ohio State fans, furious at Day’s four straight losses to Michigan.

The internet chatter allowed Saban to go on a rant, one familiar to Alabama fans.

“A big part of that was insulating the players from external factors,” Saban said. “Criticism, internet. You know, I used to tell the players all the time, ‘Why do you care what some guy puts on the internet, who’s a fat guy in his underwear, living in his mother’s basement? Why do you care? Why does that mean anything to you? Why does that affect you in any way, shape or form?’

“We should be focused on what we can control and what we can do. And it’s the same thing for the fans. I would tell the fans the same thing. If Ohio State wants to beat Michigan, they need to be positive about their coach and the players. There’s nobody wants to beat ‘em worse than the players and the coaches. That’s No. 1. No. 2: They have an opportunity to win the national championship. Everybody ought to be supporting the hell out of them so that they have the best opportunity to do it, and quit all this negative bulls—.”

Ohio State and Tennessee are scheduled to kick off at 7 p.m. CT Saturday in Columbus. The game will be aired on ABC.