The hottest topics in the Pac-12 on any given week, as Twitter and sports-talk radio hosts will attest, are whether the conference will make the playoff, cut a deal with DirecTV, and change commissioners.
About that last matter: Larry Scott isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, based on a dramatic sentiment shift within the conference — a shift rooted in Scott’s reinvention of himself and his management style.
Gone are the days when transparency didn’t exist, when mistakes weren’t readily acknowledged and feedback was often met with pushback.
Gone are the days when policy-making flowed one direction: from the conference office to the campuses.