Keeping things in proportion

EUGENE, Ore. — One of the first people in the press box today was the Pac-10 Commissioner, Tom Hansen.

Two weeks ago in Gainesville, I sat next to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive at the Florida-Tennessee game. He’d taken a private plane in from Birmingham that morning and gotten a police escort to the stadium. Hansen?

“My private jet is called Southwest,” he said with a smile.

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