Well, to me, the hottest, the most exciting team, the program right now across football and basketball in the Big 12 conference is the Kansas State Wildcats.

I'm Pete Mundo on Heartland College Sports, and we now welcome on and say hi to our friend Tim Fitzgerald, go powercat.com doing an outstanding job covering the Wildcats. Tim, it's great to have you here on the show,

as always, my friend. How does this compare? When you talk about where this football program is at,

fresh off a big 12 title, basketball program, elite eight run. How does this compare to, let's say,

what, 2012 maybe, what's better? What's different? How do you compare

these two periods of time? Yeah, the 12, 13 seasons, in which K-State won football,

basketball, and baseball that season, which was incredible. That's hard for anyone to do.

And I just saw Twitter, I don't even know what K-State fan put it up, but it had a number

of votes on it, and most fans, and maybe it's recency bias, who are voting for this season

being more remarkable.

But remember back in the 12th and 13 seasons, there was no 12 championship game for football.

Case A just won it on the field against Texas,

so there was no big game victory in terms of, you know,

meeting the other best team.

And in basketball, as happened with both big 12 title teams under Coast Weber,

they lost to the first round of the tournament. So that was kind of stolen, you know, from fans.

And I argue that league titles are great.

They're important.

They're wonderful.

You hanged banners for them.

But you're really measured by March and April and what you do in those games in the tournament.

So going to the lead eight with this team and winning a exciting, thrilling, amazing Big 12 football

...