PHOENIX — If the tone of the people leaving the Pac-12's meeting room Thursday was a song, it would have sounded like this.
It felt genuine. It didn't seem as if anyone was putting on a face to hide lingering bad blood between various conference constituents and commissioner Larry Scott. There was bad blood, and there may still be some, but Scott was contrite about his past missteps, and the members of the league appreciated that.
Most notably, Scott expressed regret for the way he threw UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero under the bus for voting the wrong way on the football satellite camp issue in an NCAA Division I Council meeting last month.