* The final installment of our series on commissioner Larry Scott’s tenure at the helm of the conference (links to earlier articles at bottom) …
It was the Pac-10 when Larry Scott took over as commissioner a decade ago.
It’s the Pac-12 today.
Will it be the Pac-14 a decade from now … or perhaps the Pac-16?
“I couldn’t begin to guess,’’ Scott said recently. “If history is any predictor of the future, it will be larger than it is now.”
Market forces are gathering, just as they did in the late 2000s to set the framework for massive realignment across major college sports.