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The good: It televised every Pac-12 men's and women's basketball game not broadcast by a network. It created so much more interest in women's basketball. It also did excellent work by televising dozens of Pac-12 baseball and softball games each season.

The bad: It produced a never-ending roll-call of "Pac-12 After Dark" broadcasts. Scores of those games were ridiculously late each year.

What I miss about the Pac-12 Network is the post-game roundup and highlights of basketball and football games. You didn't have to search the internet to keep up to date. Moreover, you became familiar with the head coaches and players.

The Big 12 has nothing like that. Coaches remain strangers. Players get almost no visibility around the conference. The league doesn't feel like home.

TNT broadcasts a Saturday pre- and post-game football show on occasion, but it's nothing like the Pac-12 Network. Worse, none of the four men on the TNT Big 12 football show played in the Big 12. They are strangers with little historical perspective. The Pac-12 always had familiar faces with Pac-12 roots doing interviews and talking about the football and basketball games. Who? Ex-Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti, ex-Stanford basketball coach Mike Montgomery, ex-Arizona point guard Matt Muehlebach, ex-WSU quarterback Ryan Leaf and on and on.

I have watched some of the Big Ten Networks' pre-and post-game shows and probably know more about Indiana and Ohio State football than Baylor, Cincinnati and Texas Tech. Not good.