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O’Neil: Pac-12 commish Larry Scott is running a conference and a TV network, and he isn’t good at either

He doesn’t think we’re smart enough to understand.

Larry Scott didn’t say it that bluntly, but that’s the unvarnished implication of how the Pac-12 commissioner responded to The Oregonian’s four-part series last week.

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“We’re challenging to follow because we’re unique as a conference,” Scott said.

That’s how he responded to John Canzano’s four stories, which detailed among other things that Scott makes more than any of his contemporary commissioners while overseeing a conference that is paying its member institutions less than the other top conferences.