BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Its on him that the Pac 12 network was a failure. He never read the room properly and not getting it on Direct TV was idiotic.
The unnecessary million dollar offices in downtown SF, and the $10,000/night suites in Vegas for the basketball tournament was window dressing.

Oh yeah, this happened on his watch.
Yahoo Sports exclusive: Document shows untrained 'third party' overruled controversial targeting call in Pac-12 game

These are off the top of my head. He fucking sucked.

 

Also, any or all of the eight remaining Big 12 schools were available for plucking after OU and Texas announced they were leaving. Maybe it wouldn’t have been enough to overcome the snobbish presidents, but if he had laid the groundwork of being a competent, persuasive commissioner all along, he could have snagged 2-7 schools (sorry West Virginia) and greatly shored up his prospects. Maybe it wouldn’t have enough to keep the LA schools, but it would have set them up as the No. 3 conference with a decent enough TV contract.

 

The Vegas suite that hacked so many people off was compted. Pretty everything else is on him and the presidents.

 

When Scott came on, he had everyone sold the Pac-12 Network would be a smash. He talked of marketing the conference in Japan and China. When he couldn't cut a deal with Direct TV, alarms should have gone off. When he wouldn't let ESPN run the network, it was a second alarm. By the time USC and UCLA jumped ship, it proved to be too late.

 

Fair 'nuff.
It is still a horrific look for a failing commissioner presiding over an "amateur" league. Read the room, asshole. -Scott, not you.

 

Scott's whole run was marked by excessive spending and him trying to big-time everybody. Private jets to take him from game to game, and the leased office space in downtown SF were the most opulent.

 

Its funny because Tom Hansen, the previous AD was anything but slick. One of the quieter Commissioners ever - his main duties seemed to be apologizing for the shitty officiating.

 

Also home of the North Coast Section of the CIF at one time in the 1970s. And my alma mater, Northgate High School. (I just bought a retro bowling shirt with the Walnut Bowl logo, where I was named "junior bowler of the week" two weeks in row for rolling 200 games in the California Youth championships and then in our league play!)

I can't afford to pay for parking in tony, hoity-toity Walnut Creek now, let alone live there. Back then it was just a suburban community with Alameda-Contra Costa bus service to San Francisco (before BART).

 

WSU, Oregon State file lawsuit against Pac-12 | krem.com

The Deserter 10 want to divvy up the assets of the conference they left for dead, Wazzu and OSU say

 

Once you've announced you're leaving the conference, and once your new conference announces you are joining, you're gone, written notification or not. It would be crazy to allow departing members to have any vote or say in the path the conference takes going forward, they forfeited that right.

But that's why we have judges and attorneys, I guess.