Pac 12 Pres accidently emailed former commissioner, they were secretly meeting to fire him

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In another email, on Feb. 2, 2021, Schill accidentally let it slip to Scott that he had called for the meeting behind Scott’s back in December 2020. Schill sent an email to other university chief executives in the Pac-12 about whether to join together in support of certain public policy issues. Schill sent the message to Scott as well but apparently didn’t realize that the email thread included his prior emails to Pac-12 university leaders referencing the secret meeting about Scott.

If Scott had scrolled down into the email thread, he could have learned of those machinations, not that it would have made any difference then.
Schill realized this shortly after he sent it. About an hour later, he sent a follow-up email to the Pac-12 university presidents and chancellors but not Scott.
"I just realized that I didn't delete the material about scheduling the meeting about Larry from my email," Schill wrote. "I just replied to all. I apologize for my carelessness. Luckily, nothing in the leftover material was too problematic. Need to slow down."

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The records show that several weeks before that announcement, on Dec. 3, 2020, Oregon President Michael Schill sent an email to other Pac-12 university presidents and chancellors in an effort to schedule a meeting with them before the end of the month. He mentioned he was inviting a lawyer to the meeting.
"The purpose of this meeting is to continue the discussion we had in our earlier executive session about the commissioner," Schill wrote.

"Larry will not be present and I am not letting him know we are scheduling this session since I don’t want to get him worried about things. So please be discreet."

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