Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - BIG 12 SQUAD - The Big 12's RIDICULOUS Schedule Exposed | What this means for Kansas
Episode Date: April 16, 2026Big 12 football faces fan backlash as Texas Tech gets two Saturday games stripped, with a marquee matchup against Houston moved to Friday night. The Big 12 Squad debates the impact of weeknight games ...on local attendance, high school football culture, and the conference’s national exposure. Does this scheduling decision actually give Houston a major advantage, and why isn’t the Big 12 showcasing its top games on Saturdays like the SEC? The squad also explores massive shifts in college basketball: NIL deals and NBA draft prospects are reshaping Big 12 rosters as stars like Joseph Tugler and AJ Dybantsa weigh million-dollar decisions. Is college basketball’s calendar out of sync with the pros? Plus, Big 12 baseball’s heavyweights stumble while Kansas leads the standings—should athletic departments invest in sports beyond football and men’s basketball, or is NIL funding now changing the game for non-revenue sports forever? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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A Friday night football game in my Big 12 in Texas.
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I had Christian Raoul on.
They didn't even have a Friday game or an international game.
He was ticked off about how the Big 12 is scheduled.
things next year. Chris Level, the weeknights have struck Lubbock, Texas gets two Saturdays stripped from it.
One game moved to Arlington and another move to a Friday. It does not sound like tech fans are very
happy about this. Yeah, I mean, the Thanksgiving weekend, and it's funny because I think that there was a lot
of frustration about the Friday night game. And then a week or so later, you find out about the
Thanksgiving game. And I think that.
that everybody thought, oh, the Big 12 is punishing Texas Tech.
Hey, these decisions were made at the same time.
I think, you know, when you knew that you were going to play on a Friday night,
you knew you were going to play Thanksgiving night.
Yeah, the Friday night game is just, again, that's a high-profile game.
I think, obviously, Parker's Coogs are supposed to be pretty good.
Texas Tech is going to be pretty good.
And that's one of the bigger games of the Big 12.
And I think as everybody looked at it, that could have been a premium game on
Saturday. So that's debatable. But yeah, I think I don't want to, and Drake, you know this,
but I don't want to like speak for other states, but and it just sounds, I don't know if the right,
if the arrogant is the right work, but high school football is just different. Okay, well,
in the state of Texas, it is. It's just different. Correct. You don't want to have to make people
have to make a choice over going to watch their kid or go, well, whatever. In text case,
A lot of their fan base lives in Middle of Dessah or the Amarillo area or the Dallas-Filworth area.
And it's just probably not near as feasible to, I mean, if I was Parker, I'd be thrilled.
I'd be feeling about this news.
It's always great to play the Friday night road game.
But when you're hosting it or on a Thursday night, it's just, it's less than ideal.
I want to stress that as much as I have other problems with this particular match of being on Friday night,
I do think this helps Houston.
I think a large number of tech's fan base travels for the weekend to.
come to a home game and traveling for a Friday night game is a different ask than traveling
for a Saturday, even morning or noon kickoff, right? That's a whole different kind of thing.
Houston is sandwiching this game between hosting the Southern Jaguars and heading out to
the Georgia Southern Eagles. Like this is kind of the focal point of September for Houston
and getting a lesser crowd potentially, I think, helps a lot. But I think the big deal that's a
miss for the Big 12, though, Chris, is like you mentioned, look, I don't, I'm hoping for it.
I'm rooting for it. I'm going to talk about how it could happen all offseason long.
This could be an Arlington preview that we're putting in a TV window that is good, but isn't, like, you could be showing this off on a Saturday, making this the biggest game on the weekend.
And I have ESPN schedule pulled up right here. I understand Florida States at Alabama.
That's probably going to be one of their big time slots.
I don't know if Mississippi State, South Carolina is going to be a big one.
Florida, Auburn, Georgia, Arkansas,
all these SEC gigs, I get it, right?
But this was supposed to be a chance to show off our conference to me,
and I feel like that's where the boat's been missed here.
And I think that's exactly why they're doing it.
They're trying to show off the lead to a national TV audience.
That's exactly the point that the TV folks are coming up with
the Texas Tech problem from a football standpoint,
because I think there's actually a football benefit to playing on Thanksgiving night,
possibly. But this particular case, you're coming back, probably going to come back very late from
Corvallis, Oregon the weekend before. You know, your week is a bit shorter and squeezed. But the
Thanksgiving game, you're going to play on a Thursday. And if you do make it to the Big Tool title game,
that's on a Friday night. So you're going to get an extra day or two of rest and all those
things, whereas some schools will not be able to do it. Now, again, that's if you,
play in that game.
But, you know, from an atmosphere
in a crowd standpoint, there's just not
really a win there for Texas Tech.
No, not at all. Cody,
state of Oklahoma, unless it's the
Friday night of the Jinks Bigsby game, then
everything else is pretty much fair a game.
Would it be nearly a big deal of Oklahoma State
at a Friday game against Cincinnati?
No, I do think it would be a little bit different, right?
Because as much as I like to bash on Texas
as much as possible, their commitment
to high school football is
a lot more deep than Oklahoma's.
However, you know, listen, guys,
everybody knows the real contenders don't play on Fridays.
That's the peasants day, as as Big Chief Chris Level would say.
But that's a good point here is you would never see Alabama play George on a Friday night.
The SEC would be.
Oklahoma State, Alabama, same thing.
That's right.
You tell them, Drake.
No, granted, Miami played on a Friday night last year.
I think Florida State played on a Friday night last year.
Florida State played on a Friday night last year.
Clemson did. So the biggest brands for the ACC did.
This is just part of the TV contract that you've got and that they agreed to what was it,
10, is it either 10 or 12 dates where there were non-Saturday windows?
And that's just what comes with it, unfortunately.
Chris, we've had to her in the seasons.
You give me my 12 seconds of joy and happiness.
Don't hit me with this wisdom and knowledge.
So, don't do that right now.
Let me pause one thing from the BYU perspective because during B.A.'s independent era, they played routine.
They played on, they played a lot of Friday night games. And I know that Cougar fans, when they first went independent, that ESPN deal necessitated them playing some Friday night games.
There were a lot of Cougar fans were upset and rightfully so to what Chris and Parker is saying.
I'm kind of like Cody.
The state of Utah, the high school football scene here is it's important, but Texas has a whole different, takes it to a whole different level.
And pardon the pun, Chris.
but the bigger point here is BYU fans have become accustomed to playing some of these Friday games.
And in the Friday game for BYU against Iowa State, it's very advantageous.
It gives them an extra day to prepare for that all important home game against Notre Dame the following week.
So in the case of BYU, I think Cougar fans look at and say, yeah, this is exactly what we would have signed up for because it does give that extra prep time for maybe the biggest game in quite literally years in Provo.
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All right, there is the piece of the puzzle for teams like even a Kansas or
BYU who haven't heard yet about their stars.
I was reading this week, one NBA scout recommended Darren Peterson go back to college
and prove he's not allergic to basketball and can play more than 11 games.
There is a serious conversation happening, not just, you know, mom wants me to get a degree
about if Nike says,
hey, AJ, via the valuation
and numbers we crunch, we'll give you $12 million.
And by the way, we'll get more out of you
playing three times a week on ESPN
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fan dual network tonight.
I think before we even get at the portal talk,
there's a real chance some guys forego
the NBA draft come back to Joseph Tuggler,
the best defensive player in all of college basketball.
Like, there's a real chance.
chance you get some of these guys coming back to palat basketball?
It totally
depends on where that projection
is, and with the way agents and things
like that work now, you can more
easily test the waters and come back.
You can still do that in the past.
It's just, I think, an easier deal now. You can have an agent
with you and get that feedback.
I think the big deal here is that
if it's Nike or a sponsor
specifically, you can make Nike
money on top of NBA money. There's no
rule that says you can't get a sponsor and an NBA
contract. The NILM money is
being compared a lot to these like rookie deals and the rookie salaries.
And look bluntly, like Florida Bedunga, sorry Derek, he left and he's making more money
than the end of first round pick is if the reports are true, right?
That's part of it.
And he should go make the most money you can.
It does mean he's going to be slower to the second contract and we don't have any
the locked on NBA guys here to break down exactly how that works.
But the second, there's a big cap on your rookie deals.
The second contract, the faster you can get to that money is where the real.
money is the NBA. It's a lot less of a suppressed wage. You've earned your money, whatever,
so you can get that second contract. It's a different deal. And so an AJ, I think, is different
than like Padunga or Tugler these into first round guys where it's like $3 million in college
versus $2.5 in the pros or whatever. That's a different calculus. Yeah, and Parker, to your point,
let's say AJ is top three in the NBA draft, which he's projected at worst as a top three guy.
That's $60 million guaranteed over the life of the four years. And I know, Drake, what you're saying,
in one year, obviously, ESPN and Nike obviously would be looking at that saying, hey,
my ability to get more out of it if you're playing in college.
But that second contract, the way things are projecting right now in the NBA, that second
contract can be worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
And by the end of AJ's career, this is a guy who could be making north of $100 million
annually the way the NBA salaries are projecting if he plays the type of career we expect in the NBA.
And that's the reason why I love the idea of him coming back to employ.
playing in Provo because trust me, I'm on board with that.
It's a money-making machine in my world to have him playing for BYU.
But the understanding that how much money he'd be passing up and delaying that by a year,
I'd be hard pressed to tell him, hey, don't pass up on $60 million guaranteed over four years.
It doesn't make sense in my book.
Yeah, and the problem, because I think there's a really good chance that Christian Anderson
is going to go through the process and he could end up coming back to Texas Tech.
the problem for these schools is what are you doing the meantime how much money do you save do you hold
because this is this process is a month to six weeks away from kind of playing out in full and a lot
of times it's it's mid the late late may before they get a real good feel for if they're going
to be picked where they're going to be picked and you know have you moved on and if you're if you're
sitting there hoping that that guy's going to come back
and he doesn't. I mean,
you're, that's a big old Motsa ball
hanging out there for you.
Tell us that nobody's mentioned,
will this executive order that
comes into place, August? No.
No. All right. Well,
levels get,
pooping on a podium. How
Chris Lovell? Play nice. Play
nice. You think, hold on. So you
think the NIL arms race isn't going to
change at all? No.
Not, not, not. Not,
under that. I don't. I just think because are you, are you referencing the part about the eligibility
and lack of and we can't, we're not going to allow people to transfer or like to tell me what
specifically are you being able to utilize NIL as a weapon to transfer repeatedly, right?
That no longer being an option. So we're talking about NIL essentially having enough financial
incentive to keep guys from going into the NBA to some degree, right? Am I correct in my second?
like bird rights and some of that stuff.
Yeah, okay.
Also, can I add another little piece to that too
that monies the waters for me as well and level,
then I'll give it to you to answer all these questions.
With that in mind, these colleges,
if they're out of, hey, we don't have the budget to bring you back.
You withdrew from the NBA draft.
We can't do this.
Oh, you've already transferred.
Well, now what?
You've already got your one transfer under the belt
and your team effectively can't resign you for any money.
I mean, this money's the waters further.
I don't know.
Good luck, Chris.
Yeah, well, somebody will pay them.
I mean, that's, I mean, like, Darion Williams did this, did this a year ago,
and then NC State gave him, I think, $2 million plus.
So, so they would have somewhere.
Now, what you're talking about is, okay, what if they can't transfer anymore?
And that's what I'm saying is, that's just not going to hold up in court.
Somebody's going to sue, and they're going to say, this isn't, yeah, this isn't fair.
This isn't right.
And they will lose.
And the executive order will not hold up.
It's thanks to Kurt Flood and the idea of not being like limit where someone can work.
Correct.
Exactly old reserve clause.
Isn't the NCAA trying to essentially do the same thing where you only have five years?
But yeah, the problem Cody is, as President Trump pointed out,
and I think NCAA is also anticipating it.
This will be tied up in litigation forever until they win.
Oh, okay.
I think the toothpaste is out of the tube with some of this stuff.
I think the more realistic fix, though, is we've got to alter these timelines.
or like, and I don't know how, because people are going to tamper and talk anyway, right?
Right now, like, Christenac is going to go pro and he said, hey, I'm not going to come back.
I'm sorry, guys.
I think if you had the portal window open later and things like that, because truthfully, right now,
he could decide on May 26th, I made a bad decision.
And technically, he could come back to college.
The issue is that by May 26th, that's a month and a half from now,
we've all put together rosters, we're getting ready for summer practice.
And I don't know how you shift whose timeline up and you meet in the middle between the NBA and college.
But right now, players will have until May 27th to opt out of the NBA draft.
Our rosters are all going to be done the next 10 days.
Like that's too late for that to all happen.
And that, I think, is the more pressing and more realistic fix as far as the guys going back and forth to the league issue,
which is only one part of this.
But I think that's the thing you could actually fix right.
imagine that professional leagues not really having their stuff together you know to help out the the college folks or vice versa yeah but NFL draft is is kind of the same thing with some of that stuff too but it's very frustrating but it it puts the college coach in a bit of a bind as you you know and it is what it is at this point as i think about that chris and parker there have been some people who have called
for college basketball to become a one semester sport.
It's essentially moving the start date back from November to starting it over Christmas
break and then running essentially March Madness.
You push it back to May.
Could that be the timeline change?
And I don't you're shaking your head, Chris.
I'm just, I'm just saying that if that's how they want to sync it up to your
Parliament Park, if they want to make it more streamlined in that regard,
if you finish what would be called May Madness,
then you could really kind of roll right into NFL, it's not NFL, NBA, NBA,
and have that timeline play out more in line with what you're pointing out where the
rosters aren't going to be set at that point.
You can actually have some more flexibility.
Yeah, so much of these issues are all calendar-related.
And it's just football calendar, what we're talking about here with the basketball,
and it just, I just don't see some of it ever moving.
They're just not going to move.
I mean, March Madness is their brand.
I mean, it's everything.
they are about. I mean, expanding the tournament. How are we going to do this without moving anything
else? We're just going to load up the first level. We expand the tournament so it takes so long.
That's the trick. We play the tournament. Every team plays the tournament. It expands it all the way out to May.
It's March and May madness. There you go. Perfect. Perfect. I mean, what, what tournament was it,
okay, but what tournament was it that Paul's guys just won?
The crown. Crown. Ground. I mean, what is that? What is that? What is that?
that even? How long has that been around?
They started it two or three years.
They started the first game, I think, was
April 3rd this year.
Two weeks after the conference tournament.
It's literally a week long. It's just one
week. And you spent half a month
waiting for it to start.
You get three weeks to practice
and four days of basketball.
But they did get 300K.
They did.
Chris, we both live in Texas.
Crown is a bad way. That'll
buy you the right arm of a
decent guard.
these days. I'm a lefty guard.
The right arm of a lefty guard.
That's great. That's great.
Coming up, let's do it.
A little Big 12 baseball action.
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Where's Philip? Where's Philip? I want more.
Somehow we don't like Kansas representation in baseball is not something that you usually expect to have this talk over, but they lead the Big 12 right now and have won eight consecutive games.
But I think one of the storylines, again, we need our Arizona and our Kansas guys.
Arizona, their complete fall apart has disguised that TCU's hovering around 500 and Texas Tech once again is disappointed.
There are heavy weights in the Big 12 that aren't doing what the heavy weights are supposed to do.
Level Tim Tadlock, question mark.
What's right?
Are there rumblings?
Are fans happy?
No, they're not happy.
But, okay, this isn't by design, but in fairness to Tim Tadlock, he's playing.
with 11.7 scholarships still.
And I think of some of these schools in the Big 12
are fully funded.
They've got 25 scholarships.
Texas Tech just chose to really go in
on men's hoops and football.
And I think that is being fixed for next year.
But it's, it's, they don't, they're pitching.
It's just, it's brutal, it's brutal.
And he's got a lifetime contract
and everybody misunderstands what that, what that means.
It's basically just a five-year contract
that rolls over every year.
It doesn't mean he's going to be paid for the rest of his life for anything.
But but but I think the administration here understands it,
but there's no really NIL going on with Texas Tech baseball.
It's all softball.
It is all, it is all men's basketball and then football.
And so Chris, I can tell you, YU right now is it kind of in the same boat.
And the fact that BYU's top half of the Big 12 at this juncture is a miracle.
in and of itself. They've actually gotten surprisingly decent pitching. And this is a cold weather school.
And BYU, I think, realized when they went into the Big 12 that softball and baseball might be at the
biggest disadvantage in terms of just overall ability to compete. But to have BYU baseball,
north of 500 overall in the season, north of 500 in Big 12 play, I know that nationally ranked
Arizona state's coming here to Provo this weekend. I'm absolutely floored at what BYU
baseball has accomplished at this point. They harbor, I think, some small ambition to maybe making some
postseason noise, but they're doing it.
It's an uphill climb, and they're fighting the fight.
And Trent,
Hey, man, you ought to put that on a shirt, man.
Harbor some ambition.
I mean, yeah, kudos to you, man.
I liked it.
But that's the simple fact of life with BYU baseball is the administration doesn't
necessarily seem to be all that, I guess, enthralled with the idea of investing heavily
in this program.
I could be wrong about that, but everything I've heard is they're not willing to do
that quite yet. And maybe if they can make
some noise this season, it may force
the administration's hand a little bit and say, hey,
maybe we need to throw a little more money at that
baseball program. As someone who works
full time for a baseball team,
so obviously I don't want baseball
to die. Baseball, close.
Hey, banana ball's awesome.
Yeah, it is.
Baseball will die before banana ball does, but I think we
agree on that. That's
the explosion of NIL here,
like level, let's try this one,
You can bring in Paul Skeins for Texas Tech baseball and they'll win the 15 games Paul Skeins pitches.
Awesome.
There are 60 games in the season, 55, 60 games in the season.
You bring in Nisory who can pitch every game and do whatever you need her to do for a million.
And you now become the talk of sports.
So no one collegiate baseball team can bring in a million dollar pitcher and have America talking about them because it'll lose every other game or they'll split every other game.
For Texas Tech softball, you become the talk of sports.
sports. The marketing is paid off way far farther in softball that it is in baseball. It feels like
across the board, baseball, and you can see it kind of reflected in the standings across the sport
at year. It's just different. And I think the TV component of this sport, like softball is, it's a,
it's a fancy, nice two-hour window. Yeah. College baseball, it can be two and a half hours or it can
be four and a half hours. And that's just the, that's the realistic outlook on it. And it's, it's
just a bit tricky. It's not ideal for television or the length of the game. They tried to do some
things with the pitch clock and different things. But it's just so yeah, it's not not everybody's
cup of tea for sure. Well, you know, we're killing it. Why be good? I guess that's my point is if you're a
school and you need to invest in a wide receiver and the cost of one wide receiver is your entire
baseball budget, why be good at baseball? It doesn't do anything for it. It doesn't do enough for you,
I should say, in 2026.
unless you have a donor that is very baseball specific,
which Texas Tech has that for softball,
but then I think you're right.
I think the school will largely pool their funds
to fund the two sports that we talk about the most,
and that's men's hoops and football.
But yeah, I don't disagree with anything.
It's the money, yeah, it's the money.
I also, there's something else about the NIL with this, too,
where, like, guys have been going pro at 18 at a high school
for baseball forever.
Yeah.
And so like the idea of going and playing in double A and AAA ball as opposed to making,
you know, not a whole lot of NIL money, because we're all talking about how there's not a whole lot of NIL money in baseball, right?
Like that that's an idea.
That option's always been there for folks, frankly.
I think that this is kind of being paid out of high school to play baseball is not a new thing unless you start putting a bunch more commas on it.
And no one's doing that really.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah.
Again, to levels point, why would you, unless you're a donor who loves baseball?
Unless you're absolutely enthralled with the sport itself or the team.
It's got to be a passion project.
But this applies to maybe every Olympic sport, every non-revenue sport.
Mark and Paula Hurd.
Mark Dye, CEO of Oracle.
Paula remarries Microsoft.
Who's Microsoft?
Gates, Bill Gates.
Yeah, she's with Bill Gates now.
And guess who's got the number one men's tennis team in the country?
Baylor. You know, because the wife of Bill Gates loves Baylor men's tennis.
Sometimes you're lucky. It's better to be lucky than good in those spots.
Otherwise, why would you put any money toward that when, you know, football?
And you see at some schools like Yukon, they couldn't give, they don't care about football.
They put all the resources into basketball, but it pays off.
It's what makes them, there's no world where Yukon should be a top 50 revenue team in college sports out of the 700 colleges.
And they are without football.
They are in 2020.
I think it was, and they went one and 11 in football.
They were still top 50 in collegiate revenue.
No one else can do that.
Is Iowa State doing the same thing with basketball compared to football?
I think sample size wise, yeah, probably.
And it seems like what Jamie Pollard has said, I think he wants to cut his law.
He understands they can't compete in football.
They don't have the budget to win championships and football.
So you might as well just give it all the college basketball.
Yeah.
It does feel like that.
He's got a damn good coach and rolling.
And, I mean, I don't know.
They're giving less and less money to baseball every year.
They're, uh, they really, they've shrunk that category.
Will everybody get that?
Yeah, I hope so.
And one, one I would say the center, I mean, wrestling expert, Cody Kosovo,
some wrestling fiasco like the women's team.
Like there's a whole bunch of other stuff happening with Iowa.
Gymnastics.
Gymnastics.
Was it a gymnastics?
Their finances looking kind of wonky these days across the day.
There was the wrestling.
they had a wrestling venue they were building specific for the team and they had to cut that
they had to cut upgrades to hilton coliseum they had to cut the gymnastics team like that no they're in a
tough spot such a shame because they they they're a wrestling top five all time ish argumentation
kind of team and i would say the same for tech right it stinks to hear that they've cut a little bit
out of baseball because i would say in the big 12 Texas tech carries a big name and a big stick
in the conference so to not see texas tech in super regionals somewhat often i think perception
wise does kind of stink, but that also precisely is why you have teams like BYU that are having
a really, really good season when they're not necessarily supposed to. A college, and we can
close here, a college football playoff appearance is worth 10 consecutive national
championships in baseball. Ten consecutive national championships in baseball. No, absolutely.
The money alone, you make zero revenue in baseball off your 10 national titles. And for,
and for your enrollment of your institution.
I mean,
it's great, but like,
beneficially, if it's more beneficial, I get
that, but if the argument is what would I rather
have, give me some fake. No, not what you
rather, yeah, yeah, yeah, what you rather have
different. I love watching good baseball, but America
doesn't, and that's why the money is all in football.
Well, you're one, and your students
are on campus to go to the big time football games.
The college will series happen when they're on summer vacation.
You know, like, that's a whole separate
back-the-c calendar conversation.
Yeah, love it. This has been
the Dosee Grande Esquatch, Locked on Cougars.
Parker Angeworth of Locked on Couges, Chris Level,
all things, Texas Tech, Cody Stovall,
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