Bama President is now getting some heat from the media.

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Alabama president remains conspicuously silent in wake of Brandon Miller gun revelation

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The University of Alabama has stated that it was a “group decision” to allow Brandon Miller to continue playing for the Crimson Tide basketball team in the wake of the revelation that Miller transported a teammate’s gun to a shootout in a crowded student bar district that left a young mother dead. In truth, it was a single person's decision, or should have been: university president Stuart Bell.

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Bell is the one in charge. Bell, not a basketball coach or an athletic administrator, is the one who is entrusted with the stewardship of the entire university, not merely getting the Crimson Tide to its first-ever Final Four.

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Yet we haven’t heard a word from Bell about the Miller decision or any other aspect of the basketball team’s role in the Jan. 15 shooting on a Tuscaloosa street corner, just steps from campus. Jamea Harris, 23, was killed that night.

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Instead, the school appears more than content in repeatedly sending basketball coach Nate Oats to talk, even though he’s proven ineffective, if not incapable, of handling such a serious issue. Bell has been nowhere to be found.

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Even if you believe that a benching, let alone expulsion, should only come if a player is charged with a crime stemming from a shootout/murder, the fact Alabama is flying blind here, hoping and praying there aren’t more negative details, has to cause concern over the process.

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They might like to hear from the president on why Miller is still playing or how the decision was reached or what happened or will happen in an attempt to prevent shootings in the future. Or maybe they just want to win basketball games, which is why the public keeps hearing from Nate Oats, and not the guy who is supposedly in charge of the place.

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