News of the day, 11/7

Hey everyone. It's been another fun day in Alabama. The friends I didn't know I had are calling and emailing about Tommy Tuberville's job dilemma. I never know what to tell them, so I do what Tuberville does: Make up a story based on how I'm feeling that minute.

That's not the same as lying. It's just that my opinion on the matter spins around like a compass at the magnetic north pole, so north is north one minute, south the next.

Hard way to say: There is no plan yet.

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The feeling I got yesterday while talking to a few of the principles is that Tuberville won't demand that Auburn pay him $4 million to match what Alabama pays Saban, which is the most insane thing about college football today. Anyway, it sounds like Tuberville will want a modest pay raise, he wants his assistants to be the highest-paid group in the SEC and he wants some serious promises, the kind that come with start dates, dealing with a few facility issues he considers important.

Tuberville has insisted that he won't meet with the Auburn folks until season's end. I'm not sure about that. Fan interest in this thing is booming. He knows that. If Auburn beats Georgia this weekend, fan interest will pressure Auburn to make something happen quickly. As we have seen with Alabama, programs desperate to make particular moves will do whatever it takes to make that move happen.

Auburn has shown fiduciary restraint in the past, so it would be out of character for school officials to act like an ATM and pay an unreasonable sum.

Plus, Tuberville has one SEC championship in nine seasons of work. It's highly unlikely this season will end with a championship of any kind. Tuberville may have more leverage than his record would suggest.

Nobody knows more about risk-to-reward ratio than trustee and financier Robert Lowder.