Today's Times-Picayune

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Today's New Orleans Times-Picayune (www.nola.com) has CTT way down the list. They have Petrino at the top. Read the article for yourself. With the list of those ahead of him, I really don't think CTT is on their radar screen.

Think about the numbers (everybody has a bottom line). First of all, CTT still has a $3.8 million buyout clause in his current contract that LSU would have to pay. Second, CTT and AU have agreed on a 7-year, $17.15 million contract ($2.0 million the first year and increases of $150K per year after that) that is guaranteed with a buyout clause. This is basically the same as Saban's current LSU contract ($2.3 million the first year and increases of $100K per year after that). I don't think LSU is going to be willing to pay a coach more than what they paid Saban...he was, afterall, a proven commodity.

I think this is all a ploy by Sexton. That's his business.