Pac-12 commissioner Scott seemingly not worried about brutal student-athlete travels

One of Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott’s many “initiatives” certainly isn’t giving student-athletes a reasonable travel schedule. The Pac-12 is making the No. 16 Utah volleyball team travel to Tucson for a 4 p.m. game Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, and then fly back to Salt Lake for a 1 p.m. Friday game against Colorado. And the UA-Utah game isn’t even scheduled around a Pac-12 Networks telecast; there is no TV coverage. If Dave Rubio’s Wildcats can finish the season beating Stanford on Sunday, Utah on Wednesday and winning Saturday at ASU, the Wildcats are likely to host an NCAA regional in the first week of December. One of Arizona’s leading players, outside hitter Kalei Mau, a potential all-conference selection, has an intriguing background. She not only moved from Hawaii to Minnesota to open her college volleyball career, her full name, according to the Daily Wildcat, is Tyler-Marie Kalei Hulu Mamo O Mohala Mau. Awesome. 

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