Welcome to college football.

Some fans, coaches and schools take it more seriously than others. After all, there’s that saying in the SEC that goes, “It just means more.” And for most people involved with the sport at those respective schools, that’s probably the case.

On Monday, Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy announced during his weekly press conference that a WR was taking a redshirt and transferring. Is it a story? For a senior receiver? Sure.

On Tuesday, Gundy knew he and his players would probably be asked about it. It’s news. He then did what he thought was right: give reporters an ultimatum.

Gavin Lang, a media relations coordinator under Gundy, said that the coach threatened that if any reporter asks a player about the transfer, that players would no longer be made available to the media for the rest of the season.

Well, that’s one way to deal with it if you’re the coach.

It wasn’t actually until Wednesday — the day after when no reporter asked about the transferring player — that news broke of the threat.

A professor at the university tweeted saying, “An OSU SID, on behalf of coach Mike Gundy, threatened the press corps with the loss of player availability for the rest of the season if any one of them asked players Tuesday about a player’s departure this week.”

In the end, somebody went to the professor with the threat. It was known that Lang didn’t want any reporter to talk about the threat with the public. It was all supposed to stay in-house.

So much for that.