Wells now there for the taking

If you're LSU athletic director Skip Bertman, watching Alabama's 8-7 loss to North Carolina on Saturday must have been delightful and painful all at once.

Bertman cares deeply about his friends in the game and Jim Wells is one of those. So watching Wells' Tide lose on a walk-off home run after hitting a homer of their own to go up by one in the ninth certainly had to make Bertman's stomach knot up.

On the other hand, the loss eliminated the Tide and made Wells available to talk about the vacant LSU coaching job, which he said late Saturday he had not been contacted about.

Let the intrigue begin.