It's Friday which means it's time for the Mailbag. 

Congrats, you can pretend to work while reading in advance of the Memorial Day weekend.  

Our beaver pelt trader of the week is Kevin Durant. He's included in a mailbag question as well, but his decision to donate a million dollars to the tornado victims is worthy of the award. 

And much more. 

Okay, let's dive into the mailbag.

Poor DeLoss Dodds, he's starting to realize what Outkick the Coverage has been telling y'all for a couple of years now -- that his most lasting legacy is going to be as the athletic director who lifted Texas A&M athletics past the University of Texas. Dodds reached for the nation with the Longhorn Network and in the process he lost his state to the Aggies. Remember when Dodds said before the 2012 football season that the Aggies and the SEC were no threat to Texas and that they had a small sliver of the east side of Texas? Yeah, then the Aggies went 11-2, posted massive television ratings in Austin, had a redshirt freshman win the Heisman trophy, crushed Texas in 2013 recruiting, and are a consensus top five team in the 2013 preseason.

When Alabama comes to College Station on September 14, that contest will be bigger than any football game the Longhorns have hosted on campus in a decade.  

It's gotten so bad for Dodds that he's now tilting at other ex-Big 12 windmills. Yesterday he told the Austin-American Statesman, “We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years."

Presumably Dodds forgot that Missouri beat Texas in 2011 in football and basketball three times. That was before Mizzou departed for the SEC and left Dodds squinting into the sunlight, an old Texas rancher who suddenly realized his land is in the midst of a perpetual drought. The rain ain't coming Deloss, the river doesn't flow the same direction it used to because the SEC earthquake changed things forever.    

Four Alabama football players have been arrested and chared with a variety of felonies. Per the Tuscaloosa News: running back Brent Calloway, 20, was charged with fraudulent use of a credit card. Tyler Hayes, 18, was charged with two counts of third-degree robbery. D.J. Pettway, 20, was charged with second-degree robbery, while Eddie Williams, 20, was charged with second-degree robbery and fraudulent use of a credit card. Two of the players, Calloway and Pettway, were part of Alabama's 2011 recruiting class, the nation's top ranked in the country according to Rivals.com. While Hayes and Williams were part of Alabama's top-ranked 2012 recruiting class.

Per Rivals 2011 and 2012 class rankings Eddie Williams was a five star and the number 24 player in the nation, Brent Calloway was a four star, the 38th ranked player in the nation and D.J. Pettway and Tyler Hayes were both four stars, the 145th and 151st best players in the nation, respectively.

Three of the players, Williams, Pettway, and Hayes admitted to police that they'd beaten and robbed two Alabama students. At least one of the Alabama students was beaten unconscious. Given that the players have admitted to the crimes -- assuming they validly waived their Miranda rights -- they have no real defenses and are likely to be kicked off the team. Calloway, who has now been arrested twice since arriving on campus, is charged with a less serious offense and recently Tweeted, "first it wasn't a credit card and 2 I wasn't even awake during the robbery you don't kno what happened so dont try me dude."

So maybe he can remain on the team, but the other three guys are gone for sure.  

Katherine Webb may never recover from Brent Musburger's completely unnecessary compliments.

She's so distraught over his compliments that she poses in seven different bikinis for the most recent Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

Will ESPN have to issue a new apology? You'll recall that the day after the game ESPN apologized for Musburger having the audacity to call a beauty queen beautiful. Quoth ESPN: “We always try to capture interesting story lines and the relationship between an Auburn grad who is Miss Alabama and the current Alabama quarterback certainly met that test,” ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said. “However, we apologize that the commentary in this instance went too far and Brent understands that.”

Since this apology ABC has put Webb in a bikini to film a new reality television series called, "Diving with the Stars," and Sports Illustrated has photographed Webb in a variety of football related gear and poses while wearing a bikini.

How hypocritical is it for ESPN to apologize for Musburger pointing out that Webb is attractive on cable while ABC, ESPN's Disney partner, puts Webb in a bikini and profits off her looks on network television?

Gangsta in the extreme.

In fact, isn't it time that ESPN aplogizes to Musburger for apologizing for him?

The decline of modern society began circa 1992 when kids stopped playing the computer game Oregon Trail. Some people may quibble with this fact, but they can quibble all they want because they are wrong. Kids today are wusses. Remember way back in the 1980's when going to elementary school meant getting picked on, laughed at, occasionally beaten up, always getting pegged with dodgeballs and occasionally dying on the Oregon Trail? Now it means playing musical chairs with the same number of chairs available as players, not even playing dodgeball because it is too exclusionary, engaging in artwork where everything is beautiful even when the kid only uses black crayons, not making fun of the kid who starts to cry or wets his pants, having put-up contests instead of put-down contests, and not playing Oregon Trail anymore. This is not a coincidence. In fact, if you are in your twenties and don't have an Oregon Trail story from elementary school there is a 100% chance I have no interest in talking to you. For those of you I have no interest in talking to, here is a rough description of the original Oregon Trail featuring the language that garlanded the beginning of the game: "Try taking a journey by covered wagon across 2000 miles of plains, rivers, and mountains. Try! On the plains, will you slosh your oxen through mud and water-filled ruts or will you plod through dust six inches deep?

How will you cross the rivers? If you have money, you might take a ferry (if there is a ferry). Or, you can ford the river and hope you and your wagon aren't swallowed alive!

By Matt G

After a trip to see the Missouri Tigers play the Tennessee Volunteers this past season, we were left wondering, "Why is public intoxication such a big deal in Knoxville, Tennessee? As soon as Missouri's inaugural SEC schedule was released, November 10th was circled on our calendars.  We were finally in a conference with destinations worth traveling to, and Knoxville would be our first.

It's come to this for Vince Young, he can't find an NFL job so he's now playing coed flag football at the University of Texas. Think about this career trajectory for a moment. From posting the best performance in the history of college football in the BCS title game -- his final play in a Longhorn uniform was a 4th down scramble for an undefeated title in a BCS championship game -- to playing coed flag football while going back to school to get your degree because no one will let you play quarterback for them anymore.

And all of this happened in seven years.

That's a pretty extraordinary fall, isn't it? Especially if you toss in being the overall number three pick in the NFL draft and winning the 2006 rookie of the year award. 

Anyway, props to VY, he's actually a nice guy -- he agreed to play on our coed kickball team here in Nashville -- but his football career is over and he's still not even thirty years old. What's he going to do with the rest of his life? 

Our beaver pelt trader of the week is Tennessee's lingerie model Joy Riddle who announced the University of Tennessee's signing class. You can find her on Twitter here.

John M asks, What's the cutoff for grown men and body paint at sporting events? Shouldn't that be over 20? 

With national letter of intent day behind us (outside of handing out grades), it's officially become college hoops season on college campuses. Yes, Clay might not agree nor will the throngs of you who see college football as a 365 day a year focus but those of us in the desert realize people now have their eyes trained towards sports next major event: March Madness. There's more parity in college basketball than I remember without a prohibitive favorite like last year's UK edition. Outside of Florida, Indiana, and Michigan it's anyone's guess who else might find themselves on the #1 seed line. Before yesterday, Kansas made this list however a loss to TCU as 18 pt favorites gets you knocked from elite status no matter what. Rather than burden you with a complete list of who's who of players, coaches, and teams think of this as your college basketball crash course letting numbers tell the story

Signing day should be a regional holiday in the South.

No one is working. Everyone is frantically checking Twitter. That's because signing day is uniquely made for the Internet and social media. There's so much information rolling through so rapidly that signing day is a bit like sitting down in front of a slot machine and pulling the lever time after time. With every screen refresh the story changes, a great recruiting class can fade -- I'm looking at you USC -- and a less than sterling recruiting class can rise -- props to the Kentucky Wildcats on their best football class ever.

YesterdayI ranked the SEC classes from 1-14, but today I'm going to give y'all my 11 favorite parts of signing day.

Yep, it's a special out of season Starting 11.

It's not quite noon and according to Rivals the SEC has the 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 12th best recruiting classes in the nation. That's seven of the top 12 classes in the nation. Not to be outdone, 247 Sports has the SEC with the 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9 and 11 classes in the nation. That's an even better seven of the top 11 classes in the nation.

That's downright insane.

But I guess that's what you come to expect when today's current signing classes were in the fifth grade the last time the SEC didn't win the national title.

Seriously, the fifth grade.

As if that wasn't enough Rivals had the SEC with 12 of the top 26 classes in the nation -- 12! -- and 247 Sports had the conference with 11 of the top 26 classes in the country.

I mean, that dominance is flat-out staggering.