When Larry Scott met with the Pac-12 CEO group last week to discuss his future with the conference, he said it immediately became clear that the presidents and chancellors had concluded it was time for new leadership.
"[They] were feeling like a new direction would make sense," Scott told ESPN on Wednesday night after the conference announced that his turbulent 11-year tenure as Pac-12 commissioner will end in June.
While the Scott era had a promising start with expansion to include Colorado and Utah, the birth of the Pac-12 Network and a record media rights deal, the conference's national visibility and relevance has been trending in the wrong direction over the past few years.