He publicly denied there was renegotiation. Fake news.

If he denied it then it didn't happen, right?

Auburn is a public university and as such all contracts etc are subject to FOI acts and document requests. I would find it very very hard to believe that if the contract were renegotiated, that the terms would not already be published, especially with as much publicity as this matter has received. As much as I laugh to say it, I'm afraid that the AU faithful are stuck with Gus until they are willing to stroke that very very big check. If the terms of his contract were changed, it would already be public knowledge.

Those FOIA requests already may be in the works, could be "lost in the shuffle" at the moment, Jean from the office is out on vacation until January 7, we're closed until early January or possibly not filed yet.

AU truly is in "Just be quiet, don't say anything, it'll go away soon enough, those reporters are dumb or homers or both" mode.

FOIA requests can be complied with slowly sometimes.

Who cares?