...is this a newly learned trait?
Being unwilling to kiss the feet of Larry Scott is completely unrelated to "cowering in fear."
It makes absolutely no sense to agree to a game with a PAC12 school while also allowing them to turn around and cancel the game at the last minute simply because another team in that pathetic excuse for an athletic conference decides that they can play after previously canceling. Before doing that, we should have at least an ironclad $1 million cancellation penalty clause.