(04-05-2021 12:57 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  Larry Scott was booed by Utah fans due to crowd psychology and the bandwagon effect. Most people booing don’t even know what they’re booing. Nhl fans do it to Gary Bettman every year even though he’s a top notch commissioner.

It is easy to hate Larry Scott as a fan because he is the reason that your unable to watch your favorite Pac-12 team on TV. The Pac-12 Network is down to 14.8 million subscribers as of December 2020 and that number is not rising. In 2019, Utah played four of their first seven games on the Pac-12 Network, which meant that most Utah fans didn't get to watch those games. That included a game in which 13th ranked Utah played 17th ranked Arizona State.

When Pac-12 players met with him last year regarding health and safety issues, he was described by the players as “often condescending, unprepared and unwilling to meet with them again.” He called their demands a "PR Stunt" and told them to “just opt out and go home” if they feel unsafe. When the AD's would have a conference call or meeting with him, “we would raise questions” but “there wasn’t a lot of concern with what we had to say.” He once told one AD that, “You’re lucky for what you get.” Another AD described Scott as, “a lavish guy; he likes extravagance … Larry likes to go first cabin.”

Scott was your classic grifter. It worked out for him, but everybody else got screwed and now the next commissioner has to come in and clean up the mess he left behind.