Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Big 12

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

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4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson, and Dave Campbell’s Texas Football senior writer Mike Craven discuss how the offseason is going for every team in the Big 12 Conference:

* Arizona State keeps a playoff core almost totally intact

* Arizona is in the danger zone after Brent Brennan’s first year

* Baylor is once again ready to contend for the league

* Oklahoma State is in uncharted waters

* WVU and UCF both do some fan service

* Kansas swaps out coordinators and has a QB injury to monitor

* Why Houston coach Willie Fritz is nicknamed “novocain”

* Iowa State needs to win in the portal at wide receiver

* Colorado is still acting very much like Colorado

* How much should we buy into the hype of Texas Tech’s NIL-driven offseason renaissance? Mike tells us

* Kansas State has its best recruit in program history

* Cincinnati is relying a lot on Scott Satterfield’s evaluations

* TCU has the best recruiting class in the Big 12 and could be rising again

* Utah’s coach-in-waiting situation could get a bit weird, no?

* BYU has an offseason of turnover and near-turnover at the top

Meet the Offseason Vibe Check: It's not a 2024 recap, and it's not a 2025 preview. It's a check-in with every team in every FBS conference about what's been happening since Thanksgiving. How was the postseason? How was the coach carousel? How was signing day? How was the transfer portal window? And is anything else going on around your program?

Elsewhere in Offseason Vibe Checks

* SEC

* Sun Belt

* ACC

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0:00.0	We're coming, and we ain't backing down.
0:02.1	We don't need a bunch of cats in here looking in the mirror.
0:04.8	Everybody just do your job.
0:07.0	You understand that?
0:07.9	Hey, will you shut up?
0:08.9	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:11.4	Guys being dudes.
0:12.6	And they run through our shit like through a ten horn, man.
0:15.1	Ah, fuck it.
0:16.6	Thank you, Lee.
0:17.5	Thank you to our splits, enjoy listeners.
0:18.9	I'm Alex Kirshner. Thank you, Richard Johnson. And thank you to our guests this week. Mike Craven, a senior writer for Dave Campbell's Texas football,
0:27.1	knows a lot of ball around the Lone Star State, and frankly, beyond it. We're going to talk about Texas football teams with them,
0:31.4	but also other teams in the conference that we're reviewing here, the Big 12 for our offseason vibe check series. Mike,
0:38.2	welcome to the program. Appreciate you guys. This is a bucket list for me. I listen to you all the time.
0:43.3	Got to hear the Thank You Lee intro there, so that was fun. I would advise you to dream bigger in life
0:48.5	in general, but yeah. If you keep a realistic, then you can achieve them. That's the way to do it.
0:54.5	First of all, Mike, congrats on your new edition.
0:57.9	The second recent Splitzone Duo host who has recently had a newborn, congratulations on that.
1:02.9	Also, congratulations on getting into what I would say is it's our off season, but it's just about to be your real season working at Dave Campbell and just being about Texas before we started.
1:16.8	Alex called you a man about Texas, which I like as terminology.
1:20.7	Before we get into the league here, I'm just interested because I have you, What is it like putting together a magazine,
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