If you'll recall the crazy time that was the Mike Gundy rant, back in September, you'll recall I had written a pretty scathing piece only to remove it. There's some conflict of interest there when the story is hot and heavy and you work for a major media organization, which I do.

But you'll recall that my take was that Gundy's rant was embarrassing and that Jenni Carlson's piece in The Oklahoman had some major holes. However, nobody had really considered that the entire situation -- the column, the rant -- all centered around a 22-year-old kid, Bobby Reid.

And if you don't read anything else today, you have to check out Tom Friend's piece on espn.com about Reid.

It's a massive indictment on Gundy and the OSU program. This piece will be the talk of Oklahoma sports radio on Monday.

What we never knew all this time is that Bobby Reid himself was put out by the very rant that was supposedly defending him. He was offended.

Reid has transferred to Texas Southern University in Houston, and the article paints him as a good kid with a depression issue, but it paints Gundy as a thoughtless, hyperactive jock. Not my opinion, just how the article painted the picture. Reid's family believes there is a good possibility that Gundy or one of his assistants leaked information to Carlson for the story, that in fact his rant was fake.

I doubt there was any second shooter at the grassy knoll, but his transfer and this situation will linger in Stillwater for as long as Mike Gundy is coach there. I don't want to suggest that this year might be his last; however, columns like this one on espn.com make me think he'll be on pretty thin ice in 2008.

There is some basis for this. I was told by an extremely reliable source (Well, it's somebody who has an in: Take it for what you will.) as early as after the Troy game last year that T. Boone Pickens had made it known that the university needed to start looking beyond Gundy, that there were efforts under way to have him replaced, possibly mid-season.

The coach and his team though ended the season on a high note and a bowl win, and probably most important for Gundy, his rant after the Texas Tech game gave him this cultish popularity across the Sooner State. Even if Mike Holder and Pickens wanted to remove Gundy, they weren't going to be able to after that YouTube moment.

You think Sean Sutton and the OSU basketball coaching situation was drama this year? Just watch what happens if the Pokes drop what should be an easy win at the start of football season.

Gundy might have to pull out an "I'm a man. I'm 41 ..." moment.