Pac-10 Commissioner will meet with Blount to discuss reinstatement

Oct. 31, 2009 5:51 PM PT

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Pacific 10 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott said before Saturday night’s game in Eugene that he planned on meeting Sunday with Oregon officials and LeGarrette Blount to discuss the running back’s possible reinstatement. Oregon Coach Chip Kelly suspended Blount for the season after he punched Boise State’s Byron Hout following Oregon’s Sept. 3 season-opening loss in Idaho.

Kelly later said Blount might be reinstated sometime in November if he adhered to a set of rules mandated by the school.

If Oregon decides to allow Blount back on the team, the school would need approval from the Pac-10.

‘I have ultimate authority,’ Scott said.

Scott said he was meeting with officials to gather facts to expedite any decision he might have to make.

‘They have to initiate the process,’ Scott said of Oregon.

-- Chris Dufresne

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).