Which Big 12 Coaches Will Get Fired?! | Big 12 Mailbag Q&A
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Which Big 12 basketball coaches are feeling the heat as we approach the halfway mark of conference play?
Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo gives his list of coaches who could be getting fired after the season wraps up. There are three coaches in particular that Mundo is keeping an eye on.
Plus, Mundo talks about Texas Tech football compared to Houston basketball, way-too-early Top 25's in college football for the Big 12 and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | So whose seats are heating up and whose seats are on absolute fire? |
| 0:05.4 | We're going to talk about it here as part of the Big 12 mailbag. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College. |
| 0:09.4 | Sports, we will answer your questions right here on the show. |
| 0:14.1 | And one of the first questions that came to me on the Facebook chat that I'll get to here in a second is whether or not Kansas state |
| 0:24.1 | fans in particular should be totally done with Jerome Tang. And I'm here to explain why right now |
| 0:31.3 | the answer is a yes, but also a no. I'm Pete Mundo on Heartland College Sports. Thanks for joining us as always. |
| 0:39.7 | And we just want you to subscribe to the channel. If you're a Big 12 fan, same thing on the podcast. |
| 0:43.9 | If you are a new listener, please leave us that five-star rating and review. And please do like |
| 0:49.9 | the video as well. So we'll talk about other Big 12 coaches who should be on the hot seat right now in this |
| 0:56.8 | league. |
| 0:57.6 | But the question about Jerome Tang is one I keep getting. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes, Kansas state fan should feel like Jerome Tang cannot get them to where they want to be. |
| 1:09.4 | At the same time, do you fire him and pay him $18 million to go |
| 1:14.8 | away? I'm not doing that. I'm just not doing it right now. Jerome Tang's buyout before April 30th is |
| 1:23.7 | $18.675 million. And it basically goes down $3 million every season between now and the end of the decade. |
| 1:35.5 | Do you pay Jerome Tang $18 million to go away as a basketball coach? |
| 1:42.0 | Or would you rather take your $18 million and potentially invest it, |
| 1:46.5 | or at least some of that, theoretically, into the football team? |
| 1:50.3 | Or even the basketball team, you reinvested. |
| 1:54.8 | Jerome Tang has largely been outcoached. |
| 1:58.0 | I mean, yes, that run to the 2023 Elite 8 in New York City was tremendous, |
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