NCAA vs. College Athletes: 5 Years vs. 4 Years? Plus Big 12 Transfer Portal Chaos! | Big 12 Mailbag
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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In this week's Big 12 football mailbag, Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo reacts to all your TOP questions on the show, including the ongoing lawsuit on whether or not college athletes should be allowed to play five seasons instead of four seasons. Plus, a top Big 12 quarterback is hitting the transfer portal, where will he end up?
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| 0:00.0 | We've got lawsuits flying around. We've got transfer portal chaos. We've got it all. And we're talking |
| 0:07.1 | about it right here on Heartland College Sports. I'm Pete Mundo. We cover the big 12. We are glad that you |
| 0:12.8 | are joining us as always. As a part of the show, get your mailbag questions in as we get it |
| 0:20.0 | rolling right here on Heartland College Sports. |
| 0:22.7 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:23.6 | So this is the first question that came in on the mailbag. |
| 0:28.1 | Facebook X, you can throw it right now in the chat as well. |
| 0:32.4 | And that is the question as to whether or not I'm a fan of college athletes being allowed to play five seasons. |
| 0:41.5 | This comes from Jim on Facebook. |
| 0:44.2 | He is out of Stillwater, Oklahoma. |
| 0:46.1 | And the short answer, Jim, is no, not at all. |
| 0:49.9 | And it's why I'm following very closely this lawsuit that is right now being heard in Tennessee. |
| 0:59.6 | So if you have not been following this, it's the Patterson v. NCAA case. |
| 1:04.4 | And what you had over the weekend was commissioners from the Big 12, that includes Brett |
| 1:08.6 | Yourmark, ACC, Big 10, SEC, and PAC 12, file an affidavit in |
| 1:14.5 | support of the NCAA eligibility rules ahead of the hearing that took place today in the Patterson |
| 1:20.9 | case, which of course seeks to overturn the NCAA Redshirt rule and grant players five full |
| 1:27.2 | seasons. |
| 1:27.9 | The commissioners are coming out and saying, no, we don't want anything to do with this. |
| 1:31.9 | And by the way, they should not want anything to do with this. |
| 1:35.8 | You get four seasons. |
| 1:37.3 | You get a red shirt. |
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