Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott receives plenty of criticism when matters don’t unfold in optimal fashion for the conference, an all-too-frequent occurrence over the past 12 months, both on the fields (and courts) and off.
But rarely in his nine years has Scott been roasted as intensely as he was last week, in the wake of USC linebacker Porter Gustin’s controversial how-in-the-h-e-double-hockey-sticks-is-that-not-targeting hit on Washington State quarterback Gardner Minshew.
If you’re not familiar with the situation, let’s recap:
GUSTIN WAS GUILTY OF TARGETING.
Somehow, it wasn’t called.
Scott was asked about.
He said it wasn’t targeting, per the original AP report.