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Alabama AD Greg Byrne says the Pac-12 leadership didn't welcome constructive criticism

Former Arizona athletic Greg Byrne told a Tucson radio station Friday he was concerned about the Pac-12's lack of collaborative leadership and the conference's revenue distribution model.

Byrne has been Alabama's athletic director since 2017. He was AD at Arizona from 2010-17.

Byrne said while he was at Arizona, he other Pac-12 athletic directors tried unsuccessfully to share their concerns with the conference office.

"There were a couple of us about five or six years ago that were concerned with the financial model we were creating within the Pac-12," Byrne told radio station KCUM-AM. "We constructively tried to ask some questions.