A topic that has quickly become a hot-button issue around college football has drawn the attention of Stephen A. Smith. Hold on to the volume.

The ESPN personality on Monday opened a dialogue that saw his reaction — including taking off his glasses and raising his voice — get tossed right back at him. Reaction to Smith calling out Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts ranged from sarcasm to criticism given his lack of reputation analyzing college football, at least in comparison to pro sports.

Smith’s rant, largely about featured a series of adjectives, including embarrassing and impotent, ended with, “and I’m usually nice to college kids.”

Hurts drew headlines following his comments Saturday about how the quarterback competition has been handled since the national championship game.

“This is a situation that is uncontrollable,” Hurts told reporters Saturday. “Coaches can’t control this situation. They dictate who plays. But as far as variations to it, they don’t control it honestly. This whole spring ever since the game, they kind of wanted to let it play out. They kind of, I guess, didn’t think it was a thing or tried to let it die down like it wasn’t something there because it has always been the elephant in the room.

Here’s a collection of tweets reacting to Smith’s comments: