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.