Kenny Dillingham STAYS, Whittingham Hints at Return, Big 12 DRAMA and Saturday Basketball Reaction!
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Heartland College Sports’ Pete Mundo recaps a busy weekend across the Big 12, even as the football season winds down.
Kenny Dillingham is staying at Arizona State is a huge win for the Sun Devils — and a massive statement for the Big 12! Meanwhile, Kyle Whittingham stepped down at Utah but hinted that his coaching career may not be finished just yet.
Plus, controversy at Kansas as a Jayhawks player’s mom publicly calls out the program’s general manager, raising serious questions. We wrap things up by recapping Saturday’s Big 12 basketball action and what it means moving forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it looks like Kenny Dillingham is set to stay in Arizona State, not just a huge win for the Sun Devils, but also an enormous win for the Big 12 conference. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Pete Mundo. |
| 0:13.0 | Heartland College Sports is where you find us. |
| 0:15.5 | We cover the Big 12. |
| 0:16.7 | We're glad you're here joining the show. |
| 0:18.9 | We're on all your social media platforms. |
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| 0:31.2 | So let's just dive right into Kenny Dillingham right now. |
| 0:34.8 | This would have been an enormous loss for the Big 12. And it would have been |
| 0:42.0 | brutal in the wake of losing Matt Campbell to Penn State just a week or so ago. If you think about |
| 0:48.9 | what this would have meant had the Big 12 lost two of their young stud coaches in back-to-back weeks to the Big 10, |
| 0:58.1 | it would have been unfathomable. |
| 1:00.7 | It would have been absolutely terrible for the perception of this league. |
| 1:05.6 | Now, there's two ways to look at it. |
| 1:07.3 | You could have said, well, it means the Big 12 is great coaches. |
| 1:11.7 | It means the Big 12 is the kind of coaches that other teams want and Blue Bloods want. Yeah, that's great. But |
| 1:18.0 | you know what? That also happens to the group of five. The Big 12 is not the AAC. And getting treated |
| 1:27.1 | like the AAC would not have been good for the conference. |
| 1:31.3 | Even if it was Penn State, even if it was Michigan, even if it was these teams who, yes, |
| 1:37.3 | can just back up a truckload of money and put it right in your lap. |
| 1:43.2 | But Kenny Dillingham, staying loyal, staying true to his alma mater, getting emotional on |
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