What is that old Southern phrase? What is it? It is right at the tip of my brain.

Oh yeah!

“Well, shut me up and call me stupid!”

You would think Pete Golding would know that phrase considering he is the head coach at Ole Miss. However, I guess his mama didn’t raise him right, did she?

During Wednesday’s SEC Media Days in Tampa, Fla., someone needed to tell the Rebels’ new head coach to shut up because he was definitely acting stupid.

Golding had the audacity to go on stage and make it look like he and Ole Miss were the victims, and Dabo Swinney and Clemson were the monsters in the whole Luke Ferrelli saga. And, of course, some of my colleagues are writing this narrative in not so many words.

“Golding, 42, is a breath of fresh air. He is a product of the new era where his best players are millionaires and the free-market rules all. In such an environment, there is no need to prop up the product with fairy tales about picking a school because of its high-tech locker room or “family atmosphere,” Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wolken wrote.

What is Mr. Wolken doing here? He is propping up a coach who clearly admitted he is cheating for the whole world to see and he is basically saying, “What are you going to do about it?”

Then his conference Commissioner, who is as honest and fair as they come—that is sarcasm—basically used a Bible scripture, “He who has not sinned cast the first stone,” to defend what Golding did.

Well, when it comes to tampering, I guess Dabo Swinney has not sinned because he cast the first stone and he threw it right at Golding and the Ole Miss Football program. Golding was in the wrong. And Swinney had proof and presented the proof in a public forum.

Yet, Golding is being propped up almost like he is a hero for spitting out stupid comments, “When you’re on the interstate and people start flying by you, what do you start doing?”

He is implying that two wrongs make a right, and that is wrong.

Look, I am not stupid. I know most of the college coaches out there are tampering with student athletes. I know there are corrupt and dirty agents representing these athletes and playing the system.

However, none of that makes cheating right. There are rules in place for a reason.

To use Goldings’ own analogy, when people start flying by me, yes, I speed up. But you know what? I also know that when I speed up, there’s a chance I am going to be pulled over for speeding.

You know what I am not going to do. I am not going to ask the officer “why they pulled me over because I was just doing what everyone else was doing.”

I am sorry Pete, there are consequences for your action, so shut up and stop being stupid.