Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy has become the latest petty dictator coach to excercise complete and total power and restrict where a player can transfer.

This time it's quarterback Wes Lunt, a former four star recruit who started several games as a freshman at Oklahoma State, before deciding he wanted to transfer this spring. So what was Gundy's response when Lunt told him he wanted to transfer? Gundy told Lunt that would be fine, but that he wasn't allowed to transfer to any Big 12 school or any school that was presently on future schedules. That's a pretty standard restriction. If that's where Gundy's transfer restrictions ended, this wouldn't be a story. 

But those restrictions weren't enough for Gundy, no, he had to exercise complete and total dictatorial powers. 

He had to punish a player with the temerity to leave his program. 

Gundy also restricted Lunt from transferring to any SEC or Pac 12 school. Southern Miss too, where offfensive coordinator Todd Monken has recently taken over the head coaching job.

Talk about petty.

Joe Paterno's career at Penn State needs to end before this season does. And everyone else who helped to cover up serial child abuser Jerry Sandusky needs to be fired too. This evening the athletic director and former vice president stepped down. But this disturbing child serial rape case is far from over. It's the Catholic church abuse case meets college football. Before we go any further you need to read the Attorney General's report for yourself. You cannot have any opinion about what needs to happen at Penn State until you read this report. Most media, with the exception of Yahoo's Dan Wetzel who got me to read it, are completely ignoring the details. As a preliminary, it's graphic, grotesque, and will make you sick to your stomach. But you need to read it to see what a real moral issue in college athletics looks like.

All too often NCAA violations are trumped up as true moral failings. Jim Tressel, Bruce Pearl, Butch Davis, you name any fired coach in the past twenty years and what they did all pales in comparison to what Joe Paterno did.

In reality, they aren't moral failings at all, they're just broken NCAA rules. Which many of us, including me, feel like are already immoral anyway.

What Joe Paterno did was a moral failing of the highest order.

Yesterday I spent several hours on Alabama's quad and didn't see a single violent incident. Alabama and LSU fans all seemed to be getting along well. But if you put enough people in close proximity and everyone gets really drunk, the recipe for a brawl is there.

And judging from this, there were lots of people involved. Whether any of these guys ended up being the 400 or 500 fans Tuscaloosa police predicted to be arrested, I'm not sure.

Somebody can Zapruder film this brawl better than me. But it appears some enterprising guys took advantage of the confusion to snag a few free beers.

But it looks to me like several of these guys have stronger legs than Alabama's kicker. (Or Jordan Jefferson for that matter).

Tuscaloosa, AL

Last year Les Miles exorcised the Nick Saban demons with an upset win in Baton Rouge. This year he proved something that once would have seemed impossible: he's a better coach than Nick Saban. What other conclusion can you draw from Miles' 3-2 record against Nick Saban and Alabama? Two consecutive seasons Las Vegas and the college football experts have told us that Nick Saban's Alabama team was superior to Les Miles's LSU team. And two consecutive seasons Les Miles's team has outplayed Alabama's team down the stretch to snag victories. 

Only this year there wasn't a damn bit of luck or Milacles -- Les Miles miracles -- involved.

We don't know if Les Miles ate any grass at Bryant-Denny Stadium, but we know this, his team sure kicked some ass.

The Mad Hatter coached against Nick Saban straight up, call for call, play for play, quarter by quarter, minute by minute and they were all square through sixty minutes. Then came overtime and then Miles and LSU emerged the victors on the road in front of a defense that many were calling the greatest in college football history.

Remember when LSU fans were furious at Nick Saban for leaving them for the Miami Dolphins and then taking over at Alabama two years later? Now they're just happy as hell that Les didn't leave for Michigan back in 2007.

by Zach Bingham aka, the guy manning the @theoktc Twitter account.

This Saturday will once again solidify why the south dominates the world of college football. LSU – Alabama is no doubt the most anticipated game of the year and with CBS getting their wish of moving this epic battle to primetime, ESPN will sadly weep in the corner with one eye open.

Amazingly, lots of you who read OKTC hate the SEC. Earlier this year our man JT gave you a reason to hate every school in the SEC.  His article was wildly popular. Yet, if anything, the SEC hate has only grown since then. That happens when the two best teams in the country are still in the SEC even after five consecutive national titles. Come Saturday millions of people who would just as soon the entire South drift away from the rest of the country -- a modern day Mason Dixon line would be somewhere South of Cuba -- will tune in to CBS to watch the two best college football teams in the country decide who the 2011 national champion will be. 

Update: Now the country has even more reason to hate LSU and Alabama, they're playing twice.

Lots of these haters -- we've ommitted the z for now -- will find it difficult to choose a side to root for or against. 

So OKTC has simplified things for you by creating a handy hater's guide for LSU and Alabama. Once you decide on a side to hate, go ahead and print off our drinking game guide for LSU-Bama as well. You'll be all set to be an angry drunk.

Now, as a preliminary, we don't hate either of these schools -  in fact, I personally like them both -- but we do know that many of you pick a side by first choosing who to hate.

 So without further ado, here's a hater's guide to the biggest college football game in SEC history.

The biggest game in SEC regular season history is just two days away. I'm heading down to Tuscaloosa this afternoon. For the record, yes, this is the first time I can ever remember going to a game two days before it kicks off. Truly, that's how big this game is. With ticket prices surging and the vast majority of college football fans across the country priced out of the game, most will be watching the game on television. That means CBS's Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson will bring the game into your homes.

Verne Lundquist, a dead ringer for Benjamin Franklin with his white mullet, rotund figure and spectacles, has been calling the SEC game of the week for a decade or more. Along the way Verne has become an eccentric staple in Southern living rooms, like your uncle at Thanksgiving who keeps trying to get you to sell your gold fillings and put the proceeds into his foundation which is seeking to overthrow the electoral college. Meanwhile, Gary Danielson, plays the role of the Midwesterner who has suddenly realized that everything is better in the South than in the Midwest. Danielson, who made a career of calling Big Ten games, joined the SEC and immediately established his bona fides by making the case for Florida to play for the national title over Michigan in 2006. Now he's a euphoric homer for all things Southern.

Danielson reminds me of an immigrant who can't quite get over the fact that he really gets to live in America now. Everything is euphoric. 

Run for the hills, ladies and gentlemen, we're just two days from The Grass Bowl. That means you have two more days to decide who to wager your hard-earned cash on. If you listen to Vinnie Verno, the decision is an easy one, take Bama -5. Meanwhile, Vinnie Verno also points out an unbelievable doppelganger -- James Franklin is a dead ringer for Humpty-Hump. Don't believe me? Watch the below video.

Also, while Vinnie Verno may be willing to bet his baby, there's only one touting service that is truly worth buying. 80% against the NFL spread? Good Lord.

You can go to his site here for free picks, fantasy news and whatnot. He's hitting right at 80% against the spread right now.

Now, on to Vinnie Verno.

Just when you thought the betting line was all you needed to be concerned about, along comes Bodog with some of the most extensive prop bets for a regular season college game I've ever seen. Want to bet on individual player yardage? It's possible. Want to bet on whether individual players will score touchdowns? That's possible too.

It's insane.

I've cut and pasted Bodog's press release below so you can see all the prop bets below. We're not usually in the business of cut and pasting PR releases, but given all the interest in this game, I think these odds are more interesting than 90% of what will be written about the game.

LSU at Alabama (8 ET/CBS) – College Football Armageddon is upon us. Alabama-LSU has provided us with several memorable games over the past quarter-century. This year, it provides us "The Game." There are too many storylines here to count. It's Saban Bowl V. It's No. 1 vs No. 2. It could, and should, be a de facto play-in game for the BCS National Title. A potential - albeit highly unlikely - rematch could loom in January in that title game if things fall perfectly into place. Both teams are coming off bye weeks. With the decision to move this matchup to prime time two weeks ago, the final piece was added to the puzzle setting the stage for the most hyped regular season game of perhaps the past 20 years (if not ever.) Rumors abound on message boards about celebrities who may be in attendance. In addition to 102,000 inside the stadium and millions watching at home, tens of thousands of others are expected to show up for the party without a ticket. With the extra time to get ready and the number of future NFL stars set to be showcased, it's the closest thing the college football regular season has to a Super Bowl. But can it possibly live up to the expectations that the fans and media have set? What needs to happen for this game to live up to the hype? And what will happen?

Late Thursday night Outkick the Coverage broke the story of pending press releases inadvertently visible on the SEC website that announced the arrival of Missouri as the SEC's 14th member. One of those releases featured CBS Sports columnist and CBS TV host and analyst Tony Barnhart analyzing the benefits of Missouri as the 14th member of the SEC. Barnhart's analysis was solid -- he's very good at what he does -- but there was only one problem -- Barnhart is also employed by CBS as both a columnist, TV reporter, and host which means he had access to major expansion news and didn't break it at CBS.

In his defense Barnhart told Paul Finebaum on Friday:  "I was asked about Missouri in a what if? No one gave me inside information."

Reached by OKTC Barnhart reiterated those comments adding that since he was asked about Missouri in a hypothetical context he never had any direct knowledge of Missouri to the SEC. Barnhart told us that if he'd had that knowledge he would have reported it.  

That's a defense, but is it a persuasive one? Finebaum didn't press Barnhart on the issue -- and when asked he told OKTC he didn't want to comment further -- but the next question that begs to be asked is this one, did you provide analysis for other schools in a hypothetical fashion?