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.

Remember seven years ago when USC lost to UCLA and for a brief moment it appeared possible there would be a rematch of number one Ohio State and number two Michigan for the BCS title?

It was 2006, the SEC had won two titles in the BCS era, Tennessee in 1998 and LSU in 2003. The Big Ten had nearly matched that haul with Ohio State's 2002 title and for a moment it appeared the 2006 title would be the Big Ten's possession as well. This would mean that the Big Ten and the SEC were still on equal footing, the two lions of the college football universe, still staring across at one another.

Who knows what might have happened if Ohio State and Michigan had played for the 2006 title? Imagine if Michigan had won the game, does Lloyd Carr hang on longer, does the disastrous Rich Rodriguez regime never happen? Does Jim Tressel, now with two titles in his belt, not feel the need to go all in with Terrelle Pryor and the resulting shenanigans that led to his downfall never happen? (Although, Ohio State fans would probably rather have Urban Meyer, so maybe the scandal worked to their benefit). If Arkansas's Reggie Fish just lets the ball roll into the end zone for a touchback, do Urban Meyer's Gators still become dominant? Remember Meyer only won a single other SEC title, in Tebow's junior year, 2008. Hell, if Houston Nutt wins the 2006 SEC title is there any way he gets run out of Arkansas? Is he still there? Where does Bobby Petrino end up?

It has been over seven years now since the Big Ten reached its high water mark of the BCS era.

Since I'm in favor of all Wonderlic scores being public, I wanted to link you to leaked scores for this year's crop of quarterbacks.

You can argue about whether or not Wonderlic scores matter for some positions, but quarterback Wonderlic scores are generally scrutinized by teams because they do have an impact on future success. Conventional wisdom has it that teams want a quarterback prospect to score at least a twenty, lest the speed and complexity of the NFL game overwhelm a signal caller. 

So how did this year's crop of quarterbacks fare and how do those numbers look in the context of past quarterback scores?

Let's dive in.

This year's quarterback scores run the gamut from Syracuse's Ryan Nassib posting a 41 to Arkansas's Tyler Wilson notching a 20.   

There has been an awful lot of bad news lately, now Outkick the Coverage can bring you some good news. A cancer patient at Memphis's St. Jude hospital will be announcing a first round NFL draft pick Thursday in New York City.

This news will be announced shortly via a press release which will begin:

"NFL Play 60, the National Football League's youth health and fitness campaign, is the new "Official Champion of Play" at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the global leader in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other deadly diseases.

To commemorate this new milestone in the ongoing partnership between the NFL and St.Jude, a St. Jude patient will join NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on stage to announce a pick during the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft. The NFL Network and ESPN will televise live coverage of the NFL Draft beginning at 8 p.m. EST on Thursday, Apr. 25."

Earlier this week future NFL draft picks Matt Barkley of USC and Barrett Jones of Alabama toured St. Jude and had a chance to meet with children like Markell, a cancer patient at St. Jude pictured above who lost one of his legs fighting cancer. Markell will have the opportunity to announce a pick at this year's NFL draft, a moment that will be pretty special for lots of us who have had family or friends impacted by cancer. 

If you aren't familiar with St. Jude's hospital in Memphis, you should be, check out their site here, they truly do amazing work.   

By Brandon Priddy

The Wonderlic needs to die, and Clay has unwittingly shown us exactly why we need to kill it. His notion that making scores public would be of any service to these kids or anyone else is way off base – here’s why. 

Ah, Johnny Manziel.

Already my favorite player in SEC history and he's only played a year.

Saturday Manziel returned to his hometown of Kerrville, Texas to have a welcome home celebration on the football field. As part of that celebration Manziel brought his Heisman Trophy back home with him. Then according to an anonymous email tipster, Manziel went out to celebrate.

UPDATE Manziel says this is a photoshop on Twitter.

"ABSOLUTELY PHOTOSHOPPED. People are always out to get me...sorry for kissing my trophy."

That night of celebration happened to also be on 4/20.

And, well, you know, how hometown celebrations can go with the Heisman Trophy on 4/20.

Over 150,000 Alabama and Auburn fans showed up for the Crimson Tide and Tiger spring games this past weekend.

And at least two couples got married, one at Alabama and one at Auburn.

Both grooms wore cargo shorts.

But which wore it best?

Let's dive in and decide which Alabama wedding was more awkward.

And God bless Alabama and Auburn fans for continuing to amaze us.

Even when we all secretly think there is nothing that either fan base can do -- especially Alabama's -- to shock us.

They just keep keeping on.

First, we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to AL.com since they actually have video of the Auburn couple being married at Toomer's Corner.

Football is back! Well not really but the NFL schedule release last week means we’re only a few short months from kicking off the regular season (cue the excessive draft dialogue for 4 days).  With such a fine line separating teams from one another, there's no greater equalizer in pro football than a soft schedule.  For those unfamiliar with the betting hype surrounding season long win total wagers, they’re a better predictive measure of Vegas' true expectations for each team than future odds.

It's been a rough week for feel-good stories so the mailbag is here to make everything better.

First, a mea culpa, I was deluged by emails from farmers, really, ridiculing my premise that a man could choke a cow to death. (In last week's mailbag I suggested that the largest animal a human could kill with its bare hands was a cow.) 

Jim H. summed up the outrage:

"You've written and said a ton of dumb stuff over the years, but suggesting that an average man could strangle a cow to death is by far the dumbest. Cows have some of the strongest neck muscles in the animal kingdom. There is no way any man could choke one to death. You wouldn't even get close to shutting off the windpipe. Your an idiot. (The your was on purpose)."

Our beaver pelt trader of the week is the Maryland sorority girl who uncorked this amazing email yesterday.

It's perfect.

Oh, and she's also smoking hot.

Hot, crazy, and mean?

She's going to make someone a wonderfully wild wife. She's also tougher than just about every Maryland football player. Somewhere Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany read this email, pumped his fist, and said, "By God, I knew Maryland had the spunk the Big Ten needs."

Another year, another woeful performance on the Wonderlic test for bunches of college athletes who have somehow remained eligible at major universities despite testing borderline literate.

The latest player scores to leak are all wide receivers: West Virginia's Tavon Austin and Tennessee's Cordarrelle Patterson and Justin Hunter. The trio scored a 7, 11, and 12, respectively, according to a report in the Milwaukee newspaper. (The news wasn't all bad, USC's Robert Woods posted a 23).

A test score of ten on the Wonderlic is considered functional literacy. According to Wonderlic data the average engineer would score around a 30, the average security guard a 17.

So all three of these wide receivers tested borderline literate, and substantially less intelligent than an average security guard would test. 

Yet all three receivers have been eligible to play college football for years.

Isn't this prima facie evidence of academic fraud? I mean, if you can barely read the Wonderlic test, how in the world have you been eligible at a four year college without significant cheating?

Academic fraud -- that is, what goes on to keep players eligible in college -- is one of the great untold stories of major college athletics. Virtually every major program is cheating its ass off to keep players who have no business in college eligible to play football and basketball. 

[So much tragedy over the last few days. Along with everyone else, my heart goes out to all the people impacted in Boston, MA and now West, TX. It's been a rough week for sure, but I'm hoping I can write something that will give y'all a moment of relief from all the bad news, even if only for a couple minutes, and maybe even make you laugh a little.]