PHOENIX -- In advance of the Pac-12 meetings this week, it seemed as though commissioner Larry Scott needed to put out several fires, some of which he started himself. There seemed to many observers that a divide was developing within the conference over his leadership, both in terms of administrative issues and personal feelings.
Scott apparently wielded a fairly effective fire extinguisher as his meetings with conference athletic directors concluded Thursday, though it's certainly possible that a recent embarrassing public tempest that involved Scott calling out UCLA AD Dan Guerrero over his misrepresenting the conference's wishes with a potential satellite-camp ban merely led to a resolution to keep the conference's dirty laundry to itself.