BIG 12 Mailbag Q&A: Bad News for Two Programs, BIG 12's Tournament Future & More!
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this week's mailbag, Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo answers your TOP Big 12 questions of the week, including a couple of programs getting bad publicity!
Plus, Mundo discusses the Big 12 Tournament, it's future, why the BIG 12 needs to stay in Kansas City, and also how many teams could end up in March Madness for the league, and why it won't be more.
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| 0:00.0 | It's mailbag time here in the Big 12 conference. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College Sports, is who we are and where you can find us covering |
| 0:09.0 | the Big 12. |
| 0:10.0 | We're going to answer all your questions right here on the show. |
| 0:13.9 | We appreciate you joining us and make sure right now that you are subscribed and you |
| 0:18.7 | like the video. |
| 0:20.4 | So let's get it rolling with the first question that came in on the Facebook page earlier today. |
| 0:26.9 | Pete, does the latest arrest in Manhattan, Kansas mean Jerome Tang is officially or unofficially done? |
| 0:34.4 | The short answer is no. |
| 0:36.3 | It does not mean that. Why? Because Jerome Stang still has |
| 0:41.0 | $18 million coming his way if he gets fired. That is an $18 million check. I don't believe any |
| 0:50.0 | booster or boosters want to part with right now. They want to make Jerome Tang earn that paycheck. |
| 0:58.0 | And you know what? There's a part of them that should make Jerome Tang earn that paycheck. |
| 1:02.6 | If you haven't seen the story, by the way, Mark Vital, who you may recall, he was on the |
| 1:09.4 | Baylor team that won the national championship under Scott Drew. |
| 1:12.8 | He's been a graduate assistant this year at Kansas State, and he was arrested Monday morning. |
| 1:20.1 | So he was arrested at 220 in the morning on Monday in Manhattan on a domestic battery charge. |
| 1:28.3 | His bond was set as $2,000, not confined. |
| 1:32.1 | They also arrested a woman on a similar charge at that same location just after midnight on Monday. |
| 1:39.5 | And it's just, you know, listen, it sounds like it was something between two individuals. |
| 1:46.7 | What happened? What transpired? I don't know. |
| 1:49.9 | But the last thing that Jerome Tang needed was anybody in his life, and I mean his coaching life, |
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