For now, Larry Scott chills out previously combustible Pac-12

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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 gathering 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.

Scott called the meetings “probably as positive as any since I’ve been here,” and there were no dissenters saying otherwise, including from sometime Scott critics.

“I don’t get any sense there’s a lingering issue” with UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said Thursday. Chris Williams/Icon SMI

“We went over a lot of different items,” Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne said. “It was a very positive meeting. We walked away from the meeting encouraged. It was a very good day today.”

The most recent problem was Scott’s very public calling-out of Guerrero for his vote to ban satellite camps, which ran counter to the conference’s official position, held by a 11-0 majority, with only UCLA in abstention. Guerrero said Wednesday that he “was ready to move on,” and Scott expressed regret for how things played out in the media.

“In hindsight, I could have made the point without allowing any question about Dan’s integrity,” Scott said.

That doesn’t mean Scott …

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