A Pac-12 Retrospective | Outside The Lines 

ESPN is at fault for the Pac-12's demise imo.

ESPN acting like USC/UCLA/Oregon/Washington are at fault is disgusting. This was by design and perpetuated by ESPN.

you can blame 3 things ESPN The commissioners Texas and Oklahoma

ESPN acting like this isn’t partly their fault is wild. 🤣

Really sad to see the Classic Pac 12 come to an end.

It's a shame that the PAC-12 is going away. This conference made things interesting in both college football and college basketball.

Espn acting like this aint their fault

The pac 12 really was the best conference. It went down with bill walton. Rest in peace bill and rest in peace pac 12

F you ESPN and your Pac-12 after dark. You had a MAJOR hand in this.

ESPN is full of shh. I am going to miss this conference.

💰 ruined everything. ESPN your evil 👿

This is like if Pol Pot made a propaganda film about a village they massacred

This is your fault espn

Grew up on the Pac. It will be missed. Alot of good athletes have played in the Pac. Fight On USC

Beavs shown once, insane disrespect.

The 2005 punishment of USC ruined the PAC-12. When USC is at the top, so is the rest of the PAC. Cal had Rodgers and Lynch, Oregon ST. had Ochocinco and Houshmandzadeh, and Oregon was always in title contention until they lost to USC. After USC was stripped of its scholarships, the conference was not looked at as competitive and the other schools failed. Now USC is competitive again and Washington and Arizona are good. USC was not treated like Ohio State or Alabama in that same era. The NCAA has always had issues with schools on the Western side of the country being successful. SMU football, UNLV basketball, San Francisco basketball, USC football. Tark always asked why the NCAA always had their nose in his program and not North Carolina or Duke. The NCAA is now saying sorry that USC is in the Big 10.

Washington beat the Nazis for a gold medal in the Olympics! Go Dawgs!

Thanks ESPN! Now my Huskies are stuck in the B1G. Pac-12 Forever.

This will hurt college sports for years to come

Honestly I think the PAC-12 downfall was Football and how much income they can bring it from it due to television deals, etc. Most people are watching throughout the game days from the East coast, South, and Midwest during the day. Rarely any of the West Coast games aren’t happening until like 7-8pm over there, while it’s already like 10-12 on the East Coast, etc. Watching that Colorado/CSU game from 9-1am was fun to watch in the Midwest. Definitely going to miss this conference. Grew up watching WSU and UW go at it for years and the PAC-12 in general.

ACC you’re next.. Regards ESPN

What happen was the SEC taking over and Pac-10/12 not able to recruit and put up great ratings and football programs. Which this down fall started around 2007

I've been watching the Pac12 (football and basketball) since 1981..... So many great players and teams. I remember Ralph Miller and Oregon State basketball making a run at the big time teams, getting to No. 1 in the rankings with fundamental hoops, defense, and cutting, spreading the floor with the point guards looking for the guys in the lane with the white knee-high socks..... I saw Barry Bonds hit a home run completely out of the stadium.... I saw Reuben Mayes from Washington State have one of the best games a college running back ever had, rushing for multiple 50-yard TDs to help the Cougars rally from 28 down to beat Stanford. I think he had 500 yards in 2 weeks. At least, one of the best games until Christian McCaffrey put on a football clinic in the Rose Bowl against Iowa....

Saw Elway play, in-person, in "82; ditto Barry Bonds Jr., in '83. Also witnesseed loudest-ever cheer at an Ariz fb home game in program history. #BackThePac for forever. The memories will nvr fade.

Losing a national treasure... :/

Leaving out Washington State is the equivalent of the Big-10 leaving out Iowa, in terms of Football Achievements in the past 25 years. - 5 AP TOP-10 Seasons - Average Finish 4th out of 12 Teams - Top 4 in Television Viewership - Top 30 in National TV Viewership - Most Fans to ever Attend ESPN GameDay

Man I miss the PAC 😢

Literally yall are one of the main causes of this but thanks for the reminder of how great the PAC is and sooner than later it will be re-established as such

Huskies were unappreciated in this video

Thank you ESPN for starting all this conference realignment......and helping kill my conference

😢 I miss my confidence dearly. But it’s B1G time, I’m still glad we still have the rivalry games. Now I have 12 teams to root for until they play my Trojans!✌️✌️✌️

They should move football & basketball, but keep the rest of the sports in the Pac-12. It's a shame for regular fans who want to watch away games.

11 Heisman winners.... and should have been 13 -- Andrew Luck (2-time runner-up) and Christian McCaffrey (all-time single season all-purpose yards record year).

The pac 12 technically exists still.

This is like a murderer speaking at his victim's funeral

Funny that EPSN is posting this

LOL The greatest athlete of all time: Jackie Joyner Kersee. Gotta love those ESPN guys, they are pretty funny.

ESPN and Fox could return the PAC12 tomorrow, just require it for the TV contract renewal.

Lol who was the media company that told the Big Ten they was willing to pay more if they can get USC to join

ESPN holding a bloody knife standing over the PAC 12's body: "Who could have possibly done this???"

ESPN Ruined it for all, but bottom line is the lack of relevance of USC in Football and UCLA in Basketball that killed the Conference we needed them to be good. they just decided to sleep for the last decade

Big Sport

*psst* ESPN is owned 80% by Disney, no wonder they caused the death of a conference. Where else would the greed come from?

ESPN and Disney killed the PAC

Dave Krieg even had better timing throws than Patrick Mahomes

They did their best to not mention OJ lol

ESPN is acting like this isn’t partly their fault 😂

When they ask you to play for the LOVE, keep in mind that they will only play for MONEY...

Most of the picks and heismans all usc bruh

Big thanks to ESPN, our moronic commissioners, idiotic university presidents, and the other conferences/tv executives for ruining an 100+ year old conference .

Eff ESPN, Fox, and Scott.

💔💔💔

YOU did this espn 🖕🏼

Ridiculous blaming those teams. Absurd.

Demo and cultural trends in the footprint ultimately killed the PAC. The "Conference of Champions" had been declining competitively for at least a decade.

NBA players match each other missed three's, One on one accident's, bad shooting and poor passing

The Pac-12 was an extremely weak conference, especially in football. If we rewind over the past forty years, only USC under Pete Carroll built teams that could legitimately called great. Washington, UCLA, Oregon, Arizona State, etc... if we take their best teams during that time span and think back, we'll remember when and how they got exposed. The CFP era was especially bad for the Pac because it led to the conference's teams getting exposed for everybody else to see (Oregon vs. Ohio State, Alabama and Michigan vs. Washington, all blowouts). They're not mentally or physically tough on the West Coast.

I am commenting #BringBackDislikes on every unique RU-vid video I watch for the rest of 2024, regardless of if I actually dislike the video or not. This is video 2251.

Glad they are gone

The audacity of ESPN to upload this. Absolute clown company 🤡

ESPN, I really like your videos! Let's be friends!