23 Personnel: Recent Episodes
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In this episode, we delve into the recent developments surrounding Texas Tech athletics, including baseball, softball, and the Brendan Soresby case. We analyze the implications of legal rulings, team performances, and the broader impact on college sports. In this episode, we explore the complexities of sports integrity, legal rulings, and the emotional rollercoaster of NBA playoffs, alongside a deep dive into the World Cup atmosphere and local sports updates.
On this episode of the 23 Personnel Podcast, hosts Spencer and Michael cover the recent performances of Texas Tech's basketball and softball teams, tournament insights and roster changes. The episode offers a detailed analysis of game outcomes, player performances, and strategic considerations, providing fans with a comprehensive sports update. The hosts also describe future plans for the podcast, including the start of the podcast going on pause until football fall camp.
Join Spencer and Michael as they discuss NCAA basketball tournament brackets, Texas Tech's season, and spring break adventures, along with insights on new phones and local events.
On this episode of the 23 Personnel Podcast, hosts Spencer and Michael cover a wide range of topics including recent sports highlights, Big 12 college basketball conference awards, tournament updates, and insights into college football scheduling strategies. They wrap up with a call for the Solid Verbal hosts to join them to further evaluate non conference schedules.
On this episode of the 23 Personnel Podcast, hosts Spencer and Michael cover Texas Tech men's and women's basketball, recent games, conference standings, and the upcoming tournaments, along with insights into other sports and some fun sideline stories.
In this episode, hosts Spencer and Michael discuss the recent performances of the Red Raiders basketball team, including losing JT Toppin for the remainder of the season. They also detailed NCAA tournament projections, with insights into player injuries, team strategies, and upcoming schedules.
In this episode of the 23 Personnel Podcast, hosts Spencer and Michael discuss the recent performances of Texas Tech's basketball teams, including thrilling games against Arizona and Colorado. They highlight standout players, analyze upcoming matchups, and provide updates on women's basketball and the softball season. The conversation also touches on the challenges faced by the baseball team in their season opener, coaching changes in football, and the excitement surrounding NFL Combine invites for Red Raiders. Additionally, they share personal anecdotes about community events, youth sports experiences, and reflections on Mardi Gras celebrations.
In this episode, hosts Spencer and Michael discuss various sports updates, including the U.S. curling team's victory, the Super Bowl highlights, and the performance of Texas Tech's basketball and softball teams. They delve into the Super Bowl's halftime show, analyze Texas Tech's basketball standings, and celebrate the women's basketball team's recent success. The conversation wraps up with an overview of the softball season's promising start. In this episode, the hosts discuss various topics including the recent hire of a football scouting director, their Valentine's Day plans, and hobbies they would like to pursue in retirement.
In this episode of the 23 Personnel Podcast, hosts Spencer and Michael dive into the recent performances of Texas Tech basketball, analyzing the emotional highs and lows of their games. They discuss player performances, injuries, and the upcoming challenges the team faces. The conversation shifts to the Lady Raiders' promising season, followed by a preview of the upcoming softball and baseball seasons. The hosts also touch on the recently released CFP schedule and reflect on the culture surrounding game day experiences, including food and entitlement in sports.
Spencer and Michael wrap up discussion on the Oregon game and preview the upcoming matchup with the Tarleton State Texans.
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Spencer and Michael preview the first game of the 2023 season as the Red Raiders hit the road to take on the Wyoming Cowboys. They also preview the entire Big 12 slate of games for opening weekend.
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Spencer and Michael go through the Big 12 and provide O/U predictions for every team, as well as game-by-game predictions for Texas Tech.
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Spencer and Michael look at the newest members of the Big 12, as well as analyze returning production and the impact that has on offensive and defensive production and ultimately games won. They also give updates on fall camp and set up the season predictions and previews.
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Spencer and Michel discuss the addition of Colorado to the Big 12 and what they've done in the Pac 12 since leaving the Big 12 a decade ago. This conversation pre-dates the additions of Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah.
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Spencer and Michael preview the start to fall camp. We also look at the recent roster and staff changes with the baseball and basketball programs.
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Spencer and Michael look at Bill Connelly's 2023 preview of the Big 12 including his outlook on Texas Tech. We also fully endorse the Libby app.
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Spencer and Michael talk about Joey McGuire's magnetism at the Big 12 Media Days and the upcoming The Basketball Tournament.
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Michael and Spencer look at the MLB Draft results for Texas Tech and how it affects the Red Raiders. We also discuss the recent incoming transfers in basketball and football and chop up what we learned.
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Spencer and Michael look at a recent article ranking the strength of schedule for all 14 teams in the new Big 12 for 2023, review the analytics Joey McGuire used to flip the script on games on going for it on fourth down, and Michael's start to watching baseball movies.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the recent recruiting success and updates across the big 3 sports.
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Spencer and Michael look at the upcoming rules changes for the 2023 college football season and the impact they may have on the game. They also discuss NASCAR at Le Mans and baseball movies to watch over the summer.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the recent Texas Tech baseball players that have hit the transfer portal and the impact the 2024 team may feel with their absences. They also look at the recruiting success Joey McGuire and the football team are enjoying.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the 2023 baseball season after the Red Raiders fell in the Gainesville Regional Championship to the Florida Gators.
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Spencer and Michael breakdown how the Red Raider baseball team performed in the Big 12 conference tournament, their selection to and preview of the Gainesville regional. They also discuss the announcement of the 5 football night games.
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Spencer and Michael recap the football game against the Sooners, give initial thoughts and impressions from the 2022 football season, and discuss the QB situation. They also look at the basketball team's performance in Maui and preview the upcoming matchup against the Georgetown Hoyas.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech defeating the Oklahoma Sooners 51-48 in the final game of the 2022 regular season. The win moves Tech to 7-5, 4th place in the Big 12, and a winning record in Big 12 conference play with wins against UT and OU in the same season.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the Iowa State game, preview the upcoming football game against the Sooners, and look at basketball.
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Spencer and Michael give an instant reaction to Texas Tech defeating Iowa State 14-10 and gaining bowl eligibility.
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Spencer and Michael preview game 11 for Tech football against the Iowa State Cyclones, recap the game against the Jayhawks, and look at how the men's basketball season is going.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech defeating Kansas 43-28 in the second to last home game of the 2022 season. This win gets Tech to 5-5 on the season with games in Ames and home vs OU left to go.
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Spencer and Michael recap the basketball game against the Northwestern State Demons and look at the upcoming schedule.
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Spencer and Michael give final thoughts on the TCU game and preview the upcoming home matchup with the Kansas Jayhawks.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech losing to TCU 34-24.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the Baylor game, and preview the upcoming matchups against the TCU Horned Frogs (football) and Northwestern State Demons (basketball).
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech losing 45-17 to Baylor.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the West Virginia game and preview the upcoming blackout matchup at home versus the Baylor Bears.
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Spencer and Michael give their instant reaction to Texas Tech defeating West Virginia 48-10 on Spotify Live.
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming matchup against the West Virginia Mountaineers for Homecoming.
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Spencer and Michael join the Gamblin Gauchos Bye Week After Dark Twitter Spaces.
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Spencer and Michael give final thoughts on the Oklahoma State game and who should start as QB1 after the bye.
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Spencer gives a breakdown of Texas Tech's defeat 41-31 today against the Oklahoma State Cowboys and just how impressive a healthy Behren Morton was today.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the loss to Kansas State and preview the upcoming road trip to Stillwater.
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Michael hosted a post game, instant reaction on Spotify Live following Texas Tech's 28-37 loss to Kansas State.
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming matchup on the road against the Kansas State Wildcats and are joined by Scott from the Boscoe's Boys podcast.
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Spencer and Michael recap the overtime victory over the Texas Longhorns on Spotify Live directly after the game.
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Spencer and Michael preview the game against the Texas Longhorns and give final thoughts on the loss to NC State.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech's 27-14 defeat at the hands of the NC State Wolfpack.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the overtime victory over the Houston Cougars and preview this weekend's road game versus the Wolfpack of NC State.
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Michael breaks down the 33-30 victory over Houston on Spotify Live. Be sure to join our Instant Reactions on Spotify following Tech's football games this season!
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Spencer and Michael wrap up some final points from the Murray State game and preview the Houston Cougars.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech's 63-10 victory over Murray State
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College football is back and the Red Raiders are set to host the Murray State Racers. Hear Spencer and Michael preview the game and discuss the matchups, as well as give their game predictions.
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Spencer and Michael predict all 12 games on the Texas Tech football schedule before previewing game 1 against Murray State next week.
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Spencer and Rob look at the Texas Tech football schedule for this year and determine where the let down, look ahead opportunities are for the Red Raiders to catch some teams sleeping.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the first updates coming out of fall practices as the football team has begun preparations for the 2022 season.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the offseason and catch up with former Texas Tech footballer Brandon Carter.
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The guys look at the recently released projected depth chart for defense.
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Spencer and Michael join the Gamblin' Gauchos for an offseason crossover event extraordinaire.
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The guys take a look at a recently released projected depth chart for the football team, starting with the offense.
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The guys discuss the latest round of conference realignment and how it may signal the end of the college football we've grown up with and enjoyed.
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The guys discuss the ongoing updates at Dan Law Field and some upgrades they would like to see, as well as start discussing some football preseason previews.
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The guys look back at the 2022 Texas Tech baseball season and at the latest additions to the basketball roster.
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Spencer and Michael recap the Statesboro regional and how the Texas Tech baseball season came to an end.
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The guys discuss the Big 12 baseball tournament and preview the upcoming regional tournament in Statesboro.
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming Big 12 baseball tournament and talk about what Texas Tech has to do to host a regional - as well as look at the projected regionals to find the most entertaining matchups. The guys also discuss their preferred format of the new Big 12 - divisions vs pods.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the recent baseball sweep in Stillwater and preview the final conference series against OU.
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming series against the Oklahoma State Cowboys and then discuss how the Red Raiders might fare in post-season play.
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The guys discuss the recent baseball series win on the road against Baylor and the recent flare up in drama surrounding the men's basketball team.
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Spencer and Michael look at what's troubling the Red Raider baseball program, specifically on Sundays. They also release their All Tadlock baseball team.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the difficult stretch the Tech baseball team has faced and give quick updates on basketball, football and collegiate soccer.
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Spencer & Michael recap the midweek series in Phoenix versus Grand Canyon and the series sweep versus Kansas State. They also look ahead to the road series against TCU.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the men's basketball national title game, review the baseball series against the Jayhawks and preview the upcoming series against the Wildcats.
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Spencer and Michael react to the Red Raiders taking the baseball series against the Longhorns and looking back on the 2021-2022 basketball season.
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The guys react to Texas Tech's season coming to an end in the Sweet Sixteen, .We're proud of our team but this one was self-inflicted and it hurts.
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Spencer and Michael review the first two games in the tournament and get you ready for the Sweet Sixteen matchup with Duke.
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Spencer and Michael recap the Big 12 tourney and look at Tech's run into March Madness.
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Spencer and Michael look ahead to the Big 12 Tournament and Selection Sunday, as well as the baseball team getting the bats going.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech's dominant victory over the Sooners and baseball's opening weekend.
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Spencer gives a quick instant reaction to Texas Tech knocking off the Horns in Austin for the series sweep.
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The guys react to Texas Tech's huge win over the Baylor Bears to sweep them in 21-22 season to move up to second in the Big 12.
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The guys review the basketball games against Oklahoma and TCU and preview the upcoming matchups with Baylor and Texas. They also look ahead to the start of the baseball season.
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The guys preview the upcoming basketball matchups with Oklahoma and TCU. They also discuss what's on the menu for the big game this weekend.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech's 2nd all-time victory in Morgantown as the Red Raiders defeat the Mountaineers and move to 7-3 in Big 12 play.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech taking down the Longhorns by 13 in a big emotional win.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech's dominating 26-point victory over the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
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Spencer and Michael give final thoughts on the West Virginia and Kansas basketball games and football roster updates.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech taking down West Virginia in Lubbock 78-65 with monster performances by TJ Shannon and Kevin Obanor.
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Spencer and Michael react to Tech taking down no. 15 Iowa State 72-60 in Lubbock and recap the loss to Kansas State on Saturday.
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Spencer and Michael go live on Spotify Greenroom to discuss Texas Tech taking down Oklahoma State 78 - 57.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech taking down the no. 1 team in the country on the road and previewing the two upcoming games this week.
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Spencer and Rob react to the Red Raiders' 75-67 victory over the Jayhawks for the Big 12 home opener for Texas Tech.
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Spencer and Michael discuss Texas Tech preparing to start conference play in basketball, wrap up the Big 12 bowl season, and choose three restaurants Guy Fieri should visit in Lubbock.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the 34-7 Texas Tech victory over Mississippi State in the Liberty Bowl to wrap up the 2021 football season.
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Spencer and Michael discuss bowl szn and the upcoming Liberty Bowl matchup versus Mike Leach and Mississippi State.
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Spencer and Michael react to Joey McGuire's inaugural signing day recruiting class and preview the upcoming hoops matchup against Gonzaga.
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Spencer and Michael discuss many things from the hiring of Tech's new offensive coordinator Zach Kittley, instant reaction to the men's basketball team defeating Tennessee in MSG, bowl game prep, and more!
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Spencer and Michael look at the changes in the football coaching staff, including Sonny Cumbie leaving to become LaTech's next head coach.
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Spencer and Michael react to Tech's heartbreaking 3-point loss to the Baylor Bears to wrap up the regular season.
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Spencer and Michael put a final wrap on the Oklahoma State shutout defeat and preview the upcoming regular season finale against the Baylor Bears.
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The guys react to Tech's shutout defeat to Oklahoma State.
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Spencer and Michael look at the first three basketball games, wrap up the incredible game against the Iowa State Cyclones and get you ready for the final home football game of the season against the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
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Spencer and Michael go live on Twitter Spaces for an instant reaction following Texas Tech's 41-38 victory over Iowa State.
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Spencer and Michael have an instant reaction to the first basketball game of the season, share some clips and thoughts from Joey McGuire's introductory press conference, and preview the upcoming football game against Iowa State.
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Spencer and Michael react to the immediate impact Joey McGuire is having on the football program, fans and recruits.
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Spencer and Michael are joined by Rob and Kyle of the Gamblin Gauchos Podcast to discuss everything from the coaching search, the best QB on the roster, the upcoming basketball season, and even a few prop bets.
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A quick instant reaction to Sonny Cumbie's first game as the Texas Tech interim head coach as Texas Tech lost 21 to 52.
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Spencer and Michael discuss final points from the loss to the Kansas State Wildcats and preview the upcoming road trip to Norman.
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Spencer and Michael go live on Spotify Greenroom to give instant reactions to the news that Texas Tech has fired head football coach Matt Wells.
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Spencer and Michael give their final thoughts on the game against the Jayhawks and preview the Kansas State Wildcats with Scott, host of the Boscoe's Boys podcast.
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Spencer and Rob quickly break down the Red Raiders' 41-14 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks.
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The guys wrap up the TCU game and give their preview to the game against the Kansas Jayhawks.
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The guys look at the dumpster fire that was homecoming as TCU ran all over Tech in their 52-31 victory.
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The guys give a final wrap on the West Virginia game and preview the homecoming matchup against the Horned Frogs.
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Spencer, Kyle and Rob breakdown the Texas Tech 23-20 victory over the Mountaineers on the road to get Tech to 4-1 on the year.
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Spencer and Michael give a final wrap on the Texas game and get you ready for the next road trip out in Morgantown against the Mountaineers.
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The guys discuss the blowout loss in Austin to the Longhorns.
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The guys give a final wrap of the FIU game and preview the Red Raiders' first Big 12 content of the season as they take on the Texas Longhorns.
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The guys breakdown the impressive 54-21 victory over Florida International live on Spotify Greenroom.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the SFA game and get you prepared for the Florida International Panthers.
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Spencer and Michael breakdown the 28-22 victory over SFA on Spotify GreenRoom.
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Spencer and Michael give their final thoughts on the Houston game and preview the upcoming home opener against the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks.
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Spencer and Michael were live on Spotify Greenroom discussing the 38-21 Red Raider victory over the Houston Cougars. Be sure to join us next week, 30 minutes after the game finishes on Spotify Greenroom to hear the live show and jump on and discuss the game with us!
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The guys preview the upcoming matchup with the Houston Cougars, discuss the depth charts and give score predictions.
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Spencer and Michael give their preseason predictions for the Big 12 teams and go game-by-game through the Texas Tech schedule.
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Spencer and Michael discuss TV viewership performance across the Big 12 and three areas of improvement we'd each like to see in the 2021 football season.
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Spencer & Michael go live to discuss preseason camp, media day and expectations heading into 2021. They are joined by Seth C and Kyle Jacobson of Staking the Plains
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Spencer and Michael discuss this latest round of realignment and what it means for Texas Tech. They also do quick recaps of the MLB and NBA Drafts and what it means for those respective Red Raider teams.
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Spencer and Michael discuss three games each where they thought Texas Tech had turned a corner but ended up being wrong.
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Spencer and Michael discuss moments in Texas Tech athletics history they think should be made into movies.
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The guys discuss their Top 3 Comebacks in Texas Tech athletics. They also discuss their rankings for fried chicken, french fries, and onion rings.
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Spencer and Michael discuss our Top 3 Tech Plays from any sport, win or lose. Plus we discuss how we'd rank Mexican food, Italian, and BBQ.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the best athletes we've seen play and compete live and in person.
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Spencer and Michael kick off the new summer, offseason format discussing their three best in-person Tech games.
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Spencer and Michael review how the Red Raider Baseball season ended in the Super Regionals and our thoughts on the season overall.
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The guys get you ready for the upcoming Super Regional vs Stanford this weekend.
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The guys discuss how the baseball team fared in the Big 12 tournament and how the matchup shapes up in the regional.
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The guys preview the upcoming Big 12 championship baseball tournament and how Mark Adams was finally able to land a big.
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The guys discuss the latest basketball roster addition and the final regular season baseball series.
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The guys discuss yet another new basketball transfer and the potential new rules for next season, the baseball team preparing to wrap up the last road series in the Big 12, and some hope for the football team.
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The guys discuss the recent addition to the basketball roster, how the baseball bounced back and won the series in Austin, and how the Red Raiders fared in the NFL Draft.
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The guys look into the coaches' contracts and salaries on the basketball team and the latest commits and transfers. They also look at the baseball team's struggles against Baylor and Tech guys in the NFL Draft.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the newest members of the Red Raider basketball team, baseball in West Virginia, and recapping the spring football game.
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Spencer and Michael discuss how Mark Adams is building the basketball roster and how the baseball team won a big series vs a top 10 opponent.
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Spencer & Michael break down Chris Beard's departure and the eventual hiring and promotion of long-time assistant Mark Adams. They also review the past weekend of baseball and preparations for hosting a top 10 matchup.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the rumors surrounding where Chris Beard may be coaching next season, how the NCAA tournament is going, and how the baseball team has clawed back into the Top 5 of the rankings.
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Spencer and Michael discuss Tech's performances in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, if our expectations were met and where we'd like to see this team go moving forward. They also discuss the start of spring football and the baseball team winning the first conference series.
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Spencer and Michael discuss how Tech basketball fared in the Big 12 tournament and how baseball swept UConn and extended their win streak.
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Spencer and Michael recap the basketball season as Texas Tech prepares to start the Big 12 tournament and discuss the recent success of the baseball team.
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Spencer and Michael give their instant reactions to the basketball game vs the TCU Horned Frogs, recap Senior Day vs the Longhorns and how well the baseball team has bounced back after opening weekend.
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Spencer and Michael discuss just how difficult it is to be a Texas Tech fan right now.
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Spencer and Michael preview the baseball team as they approach opening day, the basketball team is returning to the court (sometime soon), and spring football is here - just not Texas Tech.
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Spencer and Michael react to the West Virginia Mountaineer basketball game and review the Super Bowl.
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Spencer and Michael recap the two close games versus LSU and Oklahoma
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Spencer and Michael discuss the baseball schedule news trickle, the latest basketball game against West Virginia, and getting ready for the Super Bowl.
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Spencer and Michael give a quick update on the 2021 baseball schedule, losing its next two basketball conference games from the schedule, and our man Patrick Mahomes going down in the playoffs.
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Spencer and Michael preview the huge two upcoming games for the Red Raiders.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech defeating the Kansas State Wildcats, celebrate three years of the podcast, and give their thoughts on the upcoming college football national championship game.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the recent basketball victory over the UIW Cardinals, preview the basketball game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys, and discuss the Big 12 football bowl season.
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Spencer and Michael give their initial takes on Matt Wells hiring Sonny Cumbie as the new offensive coordinator and have an instant reaction to the basketball win over the Oklahoma Sooners.
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming basketball matchups with the Kansas Jayhawks and the Oklahoma Sooners. They also look at the early signing period starting for football
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Spencer and Michael discuss the impending change at offensive coordinator position.
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Spencer and Michael put a bow on the 2020 football season and preview the final basketball non-conference games.
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Spencer and Michael react to Tech's abysmal 16-13 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks.
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Spencer and Michael preview the week in basketball games and the last football game of the 2020 season against the Kansas Jayhawks,
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech's 44-50 loss on the road to the Oklahoma State Cowboys
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Spencer and Michael preview the football matchup against the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the first three men's basketball games.
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Spencer and Michael look at the upcoming start to the basketball season.
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Texas Tech defeats the Bears 24-23 on the foot of Jonathan Garibay.
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The guys preview the home game versus the Baylor Bears
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Talent can't fix stupid
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The guys preview the road game versus the Horned Frogs.
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What a disaster
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Spencer and Michael look at whether Texas Tech should ever return a kickoff and preview the upcoming game against the Oklahoma Sooners.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech's 34-27 win over the West Virginia Mountaineers.
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Spencer and Michael get you ready for this weekend's showdown with the West Virginia Mountaineers.
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The guys take one more look back at last weekend's game versus Iowa State, make the case to give Colombi a start, and give you a seriously tasty BBQ life hack.
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Texas Tech loses in embarrassing fashion to the Cyclones
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming matchup with the Iowa State Cyclones.
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Spencer and Michael break down the 31-21 defeat at the hands of the Kansas State Wildcats.
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Spencer and Michael discuss and preview this week's upcoming game against the Kansas State Wildcats
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Spencer and Michael give their instant reaction to Texas Tech's overtime loss to the Texas Longhorns and answer some of your questions.
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming conference opener versus the Texas Longhorns.
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Spencer & Michael do one final wrap up of the game against HBU and a look around the Big 12.
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Spencer and Michael give an instant reaction to Texas Tech's victory over the Houston Baptist Huskies 35-33.
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Spencer and Michael break down the depth chart and preview the week one matchup vs the Houston Baptist Huskies.
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Spencer and Michael make a big announcement about pregame shows this fall and predict every Texas Tech football game on the 2020 schedule.
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Spencer and Michael react to the Big 12's announcement to play football in the fall of 2020 and preview the schedule.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the announced plans for Power 5 conferences to play football this fall.
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Spencer and Michael discuss Jonathan Kuminga's announcement, the incoming QB transfer, picking a new MLB team to follow and college football news.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the NBAs and MLBs plans to resume with their schedules, Patrick Mahomes signing a monster contract, and our first favorite game from Tech history.
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Spencer and Michael discuss an update in the recruitment of top basketball prospect Jonathan Kuminga and the newly released plans for the return of the MLB in 2020.
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Spencer and Michael discuss a recent development in the recruitment of one of the best college basketball recruits and how the Red Raiders fared in the first round of the 2020 MLB Draft.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the ways sports are preparing for a return to competition, as well as all of the basketball roster moves.
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Spencer and Michael discuss some of the rumors as leagues around the country are discussing what a return to sports might look like.
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Spencer, Michael and Keith discuss the best and worst sports movies.
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Spencer and Michael are joined by Keith of the Dinger Derby podcast to discuss the basketball transfers and the upcoming drafts for the NFL and MLB.
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Spencer and Michael are joined by Keith of the Dinger Derby Podcast to discuss everything from basketball, baseball, football, best and worst uniforms, being sports sad, and the best Tech logos.
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Spencer and Michael discuss how much of life has been impacted lately with the postponements and cancellations of sports seasons.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the end of the men's basketball regular season and look ahead to the conference tournament.
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Spencer and Michael discuss the basketball trajectory after losing to Texas and Baylor. They also discuss the success the baseball team is enjoying and the start to spring football.
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Spencer and Michael react to the disappointing loss to the Sooners and review the weekend baseball action.
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Spencer and Michael react to the weekend loss in Stillwater and the opening weekend baseball series.
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Spencer and Michael review the huge victories over the Longhorns and the Frogs and look ahead to baseball opening weekend.
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Spencer and Michael review the games against WVU, KU, OU and the Super Bowl.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the Kentucky game and look ahead to the games versus WVU and KU. They also look ahead to the Super Bowl and some of the better prop bets.
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Spencer and Michael give instant reaction to Tech's loss to TCU, preview the upcoming matchup with the Kentucky Wildcats, and give their thoughts on the football Ring of Honor.
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Spencer & Michael break down the game versus the Wildcats.
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Spencer and Michael jump back on the mics to react to Tech's defeat at the hands of the #4 Baylor Bears.
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Spencer & Michael look back at the recent basketball game vs Southern Miss and then get you ready for some early signing period action.
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Michael joins the Guns Up Nation, Dinger Derby, and Ramblin Raiders podcasts for a special mashup project.
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Spencer & Michael react to Tech taking down the #1 Louisville Cardinals in MSG and preview the Big 12 slate of bowl games.
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Spencer and Michael wrap up the 2019 football season and preview the upcoming basketball matchup at DePaul.
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Spencer breaks down the 49-24 loss to the Texas Longhorns.
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Spencer flies solo and gets you ready for the upcoming football matchup with the Texas Longhorns.
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Spencer brings you the post-game instant reaction to the 30-27 loss to the Kansas State Wildcats
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming matchup with the Kansas State Wildcats.
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Spencer and Michael react to Texas Tech's 33-31 loss to TCU.
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Spencer and Michael preview the upcoming in-state matchup with the TCU Horned Frogs.
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Spencer and Keith react to and break down Texas Tech's 38-17 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown.
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We get you ready for the road macthup against the West Virginia Mountaineers and give an instant reaction to the men's basketball team's win in the opener versus Eastern Illinois.
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Spencer and Michael discuss some breaking NCAA news, put a final wrap on the Kansas game and start looking at the upcoming Red Raider basketball season.
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We lost to Kansas
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Spencer and Michael put a final wrap on the Iowa State game and preview the Kansas Jayhawks.
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Spencer and Kyle react shortly after the Texas Tech 34-24 loss to Iowa State.
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We preview the upcoming matchup with the Iowa State Cyclones on Homecoming weekend. We also discuss the basketball exhibition against the UTEP Miners and answer your questions.
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Hear our instant reaction from Tech's heartbreaking 33-30 overtime loss to Baylor in Waco.
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Intro
- We’ve officially joined the Armchair Media Network
- Find us on Twitter (@23Personnel, @puntssuck, @Michael_LBK)
Football
- Kliff Kingsbury is undefeated as an NFL coach (in October)
- LB Derrick Lewiss, II commits to Texas Tech
- Jack Anderson and Xavier White out for the season
- (3-2) TTU at (5-0) No. 22 Baylor Preview (3pm on FS1)
- Score Predictions (Baylor -11)
- Countdown to Kickoff (@robbreauxshow, @talk1340, @karrob_radio @tuckerlowrance) starts 3 hours prior to kickoff this week against Baylor (12-2pm) on 1340 AM streaming online or through the Talk 1340 app on your phone or smart speaker
Basketball
- Mark Adams gets a raise
- “Mark Adams, creator of the dreaded Iron Donut defense, and widely regarded as one of the great defensive minds in all of basketball, will make $463,000 for the coming year and $505,000 the year after that. With this new contract Adams will be among the very highest paid assistant coaches in the college game”
- Texas Tech Basketball will play UTEP in El Paso this Saturday (10/12) at 8pm to benefit the El Paso Strong Charity
- Rick Pitino is in Lubbock
Questions
J Wade Howard
If you could bring back any Red Raider from the last decade to play the remainder of the season on this year’s team, who would it be?
If Bowman redshirts, does he transfer?
Going Yard
What we learned
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Our instant reaction, post game podcast after Texas Tech knocked off the ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys 45-35 in Lubbock.
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Intro Happy International Podcast Day Find us on Twitter (@23Personnel, @puntssuck, @Michael_LBK) 23 Personnel Podcast possibly joining a podcast network Football TTU at OU Recap (OU 55 - TTU 16) (Box Score) Post OU Thoughts/Questions: https://twitter.com/23Personnel/status/1178029897589100546?s=20 OffenseIndividual:Duffey - 11/20 120 yds 0 td 0 int 1 fbl Tyner - 1/5 2 yds 0 0 0 Thompson 13 carries, 96 yd, 58 yd long Henry 8 carries, 31 yards 19 yd long Shyne 5 carries, 18 yards 13 yd long 1 td Duffey 7 carries, 16 yards Team:Passing Total - 12/26 122 yds (10.2 ypc) Rushing Total - 37 for 192 yds (5.2 ypr) 3rd Down - 1-14 4th Down - 1-3 6 Punts DefenseIndividual:Jeffers 7 tackles McPhearson, Leggett, and Brooks with 6 Coleman with the tipped interception Hurts - 17/27 415 yds (career high) 3 TD 1 INT (24.4 ypc) - 3 quartersSILVER LININGS! Threw first interception of the season and had one more incompletion that he was projected to throw (3 in first game, then 4 and 5; thought he’d throw 6 incompletions), lowest completion % of the season Sermon 7 carries, 76 yds, 2 td 32 long (10.8ypc) Hurts 9 carries, 70 yds, 1 td 25 long (7.8 ypc) - 3 qtrs Lamb 7 rec 185 yds 3 td 71 long (26.4 ypc) Rambo 2 rec 122 yds (74 & 48 yd) (61 ypc) Team:3rd Down - 3-9 (24 first downs) 4th down - 1-1 (4th & 8) Passing - 23/34 433 yards Rushing - 30 for 201 (6.7 ypc) Two Field Goals (first half) Three Punts (all three in 4th quarter) Special Teams TTU vs. OSU Preview (11am on FS1) - 10 min (30)Seth’s First Look Chuba Hubbard RB2019 - 122 att 938 yds 10 TDs 7.3 ypc 26-13 W vs K-State - 25 att 296 yds 1 td 11.8 ypc 37/121 vs Texas, 32/256 vs TLSA, 26/221 vs Oregon St. 4 games over 100 yards, 3 games over 200 yards TTU is 100th in Rush Defense (179.8 yd/game) Spencer Sanders QB (True Freshman)2019 Passing - 78/121 64.5% 1043 yds 8 TD 5 INT 2019 Rushing - 66 for 380 yds 2 tds 5.8 ypc Tylan Wallace WR2019 - 28 rec 618 yds 6 tds 22.1 ypc 26-13 W vs K-State - 8 rec 145 yds 18.1 ypc Team Stats vs. KSU3rd down - 4-13 4th down - 0-1 526 total yards (153 passing + 373 rushing) Sanders with 2 ints Score Predictions (OSU -9.5), FPI has 70.1%-29.1% advantage for OSUMichael - 42-17 OSU Spencer - 41-24 OSU Interview with Marshall Scott (@Marshall_Once) from Pistols Firing Countdown to Kickoff (@robbreauxshow, @talk1340, @karrob_radio @tuckerlowrance) starts 2 hours prior to kickoff this week against OSU (9-11am) on 1340 AM streaming online or through the Talk 1340 app on your phone or smart speaker Questions What we learned Whataburger is making a Breakfast Burger (h/t Brian)
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Intro Find us on Twitter (@23Personnel, @puntssuck, @Michael_LBK) The passing of EJ Holub and Andre Emmett Don Williams on Holub Michael LaBarre on Holub DMN on Emmett’s Career 2019 TTU Hall of Fame Class Kyle Jacobson on Emmett Coach Beard on Emmett
Possible big news/changes coming to the 23 Personnel Podcast https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2019/09/suns-to-sign-norense-odiase.html Football Interview with Jay (@RedDirtSport) Jalen Hurts Stats through 3 games Game 1 vs. UH W 49-31 Passing - 20/23 332 3TD Rushing - 16 176yd 3 TD
Game 2 vs South Dakota W 70-14 Passing - 14/18 259 3TD Rushing - 8 47yd 0 TD
Game 3 vs UCLA W Passing - 15/20 289yd 3 TD Rushing - 14 150 yds 1 TD
880 Passing Yards (Bowman 1020) 9 Passing Touchdowns (Bowman 6) 0 Interceptions (Bowman 3) 80.3% completions (49/61) - (Bowman 65.6% 101/154) 4 Rushing Touchdowns 38 rushing attempts for 373 yards (9.8 ypc - #2 in country)
1 in passing efficiency by 25 points (250.2)
OU Offense Stats and playmakers
1 in Total Offense
2 in Scoring Offense (55.7 ppg)
7 in Passing Offense
2 in Rushing Offense (324.3 ypg at 8.32 ypc)
Cee Dee Lamb (9 rec, 229 yrd, 25.4 ypc, 3 TDs) Runningbacks Trey Sermon - 27 carries 198 yds, 1TD, 7.3ypc Kennedy Brooks - 17 carries 177 yds 1TD 10.4ypc Rhamondre Stevenson - 21 carries 182 yds 3TD 8.7 ypc
Score Predictions Michael - OU 49 TTU 17 with a late TD Spencer - OU 52 TTU 13
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Intro Find us on Twitter (@23Personnel, @puntssuck, @Michael_LBK, @_KyleJacobson) Football Bowman is out for several weeks Wrapping up Arizona game Ten Things Box Score How did it go wrong? Where does Tech go from here? Tyner(TTU Stats - Rice Stats) v. Duffey (stats) Revised W/L Expectations? Poll Results
OU is off this weekend after drubbing UCLA 48-14 in California Countdown to Kickoff (@robbreauxshow, @talk1340, @karrob_radio @tuckerlowrance) starts 2 hours prior to kickoff next week against OU (9-11am) on 1340 AM streaming online or through the Talk 1340 app on your phone or smart speaker Questions Going Yard What we learned I’m going to live out my dream of judging BBQ - Kyle can weigh in
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Spencer and Michael give their instant reaction and commentary on the Texas Tech loss to the Arizona Wildcats, 14-28.
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Intro Find us on Twitter (@23Personnel, @puntssuck, @Michael_LBK) Shoutout to our listener in Odessa, TX Corprew is transferring Football Wrapping up UTEP game (I don’t really have anything to add here, do you?) Arizona Preview in Tucson - 9:30pm (ESPN) Seths’ Post: http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/09/09/first-look-texas-tech-red-raiders-vs-arizona-wildcats/ Recent results 2017: 7-6 (5-4) under Rich RodLost to Purdue 35-38 in the Foster Farms Bowl at Levi’s Stadium 2018: 5-7 (4-5) under Sumlin’s first season 2019: 1-1 Week 0 Loss to Hawaii (38-45) Started game on offense INT, 3 & out, 3 & out, TD Tate - passing 22/39 361 yds 3 tds 2 ints (one tipped) Tate - rushing 13 108 yds 0 tds 31 long Arizona recovered 2 fumbles and had 4 ints Arizona defense allowed 436 yards passing, 5 passing TDs, 159 rushing yards on 30 carries (5.3ypc) - 1 rushing td Arizona 10 penalties for 88 yards Tate’s second INT came in red zone while down 38-35 with 7 min left Final play - Tate scramples from the Hawaii 31 yd line and is stopped 1 yd short of the end zone (only rushed 4 on the play and the spy LB missed the tackle) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRVtd4A9inM
Week 2 Win against Northern Arizona (65-41) https://arizonawildcats.com/news/2019/9/8/football-arizona-nau.aspx Tate left the game with 9:42 left in the second qtr up 35-7 with 14/17 138 yards, 2 passing tds, 1 rushing Tate played the first series at the start of the second half Gunnell finished 9/11 151 yards 3 tds (Sumlin wanted him in during the second quarter no matter what) Suited up 74 players, played 72 37 special teams plays 11 penalties for 127 yards (Ranked 130th for a total of 21 penalties for 215 yards) CB Jace Whittaker - 3 ints on the season (leads the nation) Hawaii defeated Oregon State 31-28 on Sat after being down 28-21 at halftime
Sumlin on Texas Tech (Inside the Arizona Athletics Podcast - 9/9) “They’ve got a receiver who’s a real nightmare” (Vasher) “We’re recruiting a lot of the same guys” They (TTU) haven’t shown a lot (offensively), they haven’t had to Arizona has only played 70+ snaps the first 2 games on defense (78 & 75) TTU will want to run 90+ plays Question if Tate has been under center “We have plays like that, I know people don’t believe we do” likelihood of seeing him under center against TTU is “slim to none”
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We give our instant reaction to Texas Tech's 38-3 win over the UTEP miners. Please subscribe to our show wherever you find podcast and rate and review us. Also, follow us on Twitter at @23Personnel, @puntssuck, and @Michael_LBK
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Intro Find us on Twitter (@23Personnel, @puntssuck, @Michael_LBK) Shoutout to our listener in Odessa, TX Football Wrapping up Montana State game Press Experience Fan attendance hot takes
UTEP Preview at Jones AT&T Stadium - 7pm (Fox Sports) Seths’ Post: http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/09/02/first-look-utep-miners-vs-texas-tech-red-raiders/ Recent results 2017: 0-12 2018: 1-11 with only win against 2-11 Rice (34-26) 2019: 1-0
Last Week’s results 36-34 win against Houston Baptist (1-10 in 2018) https://utepminers.com/news/2019/9/1/football-hughes-144-rushing-yards-spur-utep-past-hbu-in-season-opener.aspx Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=why0vWLNTGA Brandon Jones (QB) 10/20, 268 yds, 1td 1int, 80yd long, 3 sacks TTU only recorded 1 sack against Montana State Treyvon Hughes (RB) 23/150, 6.5 ypc, 144 yd, 2td, 32yd long UTEP rushing: 46 times at 5.2 ypc (Mont. St - 36 for 3.5 ypc) UTEP passing: 20 times at 26.8 ypc (80 yard catch skews things a bit) (Mont. St - 24 for 13.5 ypc) UTEP rushing/passing ratio: 46/20 = 2.3 Montana St. rushing/passing ratio: 36/24 = 1.5
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We sit down in Hub City Wings to reflect on today's victory over the Montana State Bobcats. If you haven't yet, follow the show at @23Personnel, Spencer at @puntssuck, and Michael at @Michael_LBK. Be sure to catch next week's episode on Wednesday morning, and our Countdown to Kickoff pregame show with Rob Breaux and Karson Robinson 3 hours before kickoff. You can listen to us locally in Lubbock on 1340 AM, or on the Talk 1340 mobile app.
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Intro New bus routes around stadium? Beard’s Fireside Chat Matt Wells is a recruiter Night Ranger’s Sister Christian Gotchas Promised to rent out Broadway if Tech football goes undefeated at home in 2019
Football Just mention: 8 walk ons put on scholarship Season Predictions
Opponent
Spencer (7-5; 5-4)
Michael (5-7; 3-6)
Montana State
W
W
UTEP
W
W
@ Arizona
L
L
BYE
@ Oklahoma
L
L
Oklahoma State
W
L
@ Baylor
L
L
Iowa State
L
L
@ Kansas
W
W
@ West Virginia
W
W
TCU
W
W
Kansas State
W
L
@ Texas (Fri 11/29, 11am)
L
L
NEW DEPTH CHART! http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/08/27/texas-tech-football-scratch-pad-depth-chart-released/ From will aka ftw: his viewing of Yost’s offense shows little/no mid-drive personnel changes Notable quotes: OL plays together like a fist, if ones off, they’re all off Travis Bruffy will be the governor of Texas someday, will probably solicit votes during his press conference
FCS #14 Montana State Preview - this is where opponent interview preview would go 2018 schedule and results 8-5, lost in 2nd round of FCS playoffs; W vs Western Illinois, Wagner College, Portland St., Idaho, Cal Poly, Northern Colorado, Montana, Incarnate Word (first round, former Tech OC Eric Morris HC); L vs South Dakota St, Eastern Washington, Weber State, Idaho St, North Dakota State (second round, eventual FCS champion, new KSU head coach Chris Kliemann)
Offense 28.5 points per game; 1,800 pass yards, 3,000 rush yards, good for 370 yards per game (140 pass v 230 rush); 25 turnovers, only converted 34% on 3rd down (58/172) Starters Redshirt freshman Casey Bauman named QB - 6-6/235; h/t to Seth: per bio: worked construction and bucking hay during summers; backup Tucker Rovig 6-5/205 Last years starting QB/RB Troy Anderson (6-4/235) moved to LB (HC Jeff Choate “truly believes” LB is Anderson’s natural position); 1,200 pass yards, 55% completion, 3 TDs, 7 interceptions; 1,400 rush yards (6.9 ypc!), 21 TDs RB Isaiah Ifanse 5-10/195 set freshman rushing record in 2018; 1,057 rush yds, 7 TDs, 5.4 ypc; Anderson could also play some RB in 2019 (those 2 combined for 402 of team’s 531 (76%) rushing attempts and 2,400 of 3,000 (81%) yards in 2018)
Defense Gave up 28.5 points per game, +400 yards per game (213 pass v 195 rush) Only tallied 24 sacks on the season (just under 2/gm) Forced 28 fumbles, recovered only 11; 12 interceptions
Countdown to Kickoff Questions Going Yard Grubs eat roots - gotta stay proactive What we learned You will not be able to reenter the Jones unless you purchase another ticket
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Intro The Big News - joining The Countdown to Kickoff pregame show with Rob Breaux and Karson Robinson on Talk 1340 (News, Money, Sports) Move in week: https://twitter.com/_KyleJacobson/status/1163237285627879426?s=19 Basketball Bahama Tourney Recap Starting 5 in Game 1: Moretti, Edwards, Ramsey, Clarke & Holyfield Ramsey goes OFF in game 2 Injuries - Moretti dealing with a back injury
Matt Money inks deal with Memphis Football Cedric Benson Fall camp update Don Williams with best guess on pre-season depth chart Injury and kicking updates
NFL preseason Arizona looked BAD in game 2 Scoring Drive The NFL should play games in Hawaii instead of London
Michael’s Top 3 Wins 3. No. 15 Nebraska 2009 Box Score The Sticks Game Nebraska’s last season in the Big 12 Sheffield finished with 23/32 276 yards on a bad foot Defense came up big, and the o-line kept Suh in check Pelini had just handed out the blackshirts to the defense the day before TTU ended the first half up 24-3 TTU 4-2 after losses to No 2 Texas and No 17 Houston Nebraska 4-1 with a one point loss to No. 13 Virginia Tech
- No. 5 WVU 2012 (49-14) Box Score TTU was 4-1 with a 41-20 loss at home the week before to No. 17 OU Geno Smith came in as a Heisman contender WVU at No. 11 Texas the week before, won 48-45 TTU played a complete game: 508 yards passing (6 TD’s) 168 yard rushing Allowed 278 yards passing (30/56) Allowed 130 yards rushing Allowed 2/7 4th downs
Amaro - 5 rec, 156 yards, 1 TD (61 long) - last game of the season after suffering a spleen laceration during this game WVU’s second touchdown didn’t come until the 2:41 left in the 4th
- No. 3 OU 2011 (41-38) Box Score Broke No. 3 OU’s 39-game home winning streak Stoop’s 3rd loss in 78 home games Only 2nd win in Norman (Dykes won 22-12 in ‘96) and 6th win against OU overall (6-13 at the time) OU entered game 6-0 including a big win against then No. 11 Texas at the Cotton Bowl (55-17) and No. 5 Florida State in Tallahassee (23-13) Tech started out 4-0, then lost two close ones at home to No. 24 A&M (40-45) and KSU (34-41) Beauting OU felt as if Tech had turned the corner in Tuberville’s first season Hour and a half rain/lightning delay PB&J game TTU 572 Total yards (478 passing, 120 rushing)
Spencer’s Top 3 Wins 2009 Vs. KSU 66-14 Box Score 2012 @ TCU 56-53 3OT Box Score 2015 @ Texas 48-45 Box Score
Questions Going Yard What we learned 17 lb brisket doesn’t take 17 hours to smoke...
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Intro Basketball Beard officiating a wedding? At least offering Whataburger for everyonehttps://twitter.com/CoachBeardTTU/status/1157704510917271552 Matt Mooney hosted a basketball camp in Lubbock this weekhttps://www.kcbd.com/2019/07/22/matt-mooney-shares-details-about-kids-basketball-camp/ https://twitter.com/EricKellyTV/status/1158802724059865088 Football Fall camp has started https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5nK-jkUhU&feature=youtu.be“How we do anything is how we do everything.” Seth’s Recaps: Report Day - 8/1 Day 1 Practice - 8/2 Day 2 - 8/3
NFL preseason Honorable Mention Best Wins 2009 Vs. Michigan State in Alamo Bowl 41-31 Box Score
2010 Vs. #12 Missouri 24-17 Box Score
2013 Vs. #24 TCU 20-10 Box Score Vs. Arizona State in Holiday Bowl 37-23 Box Score
2015 @ Arkansas 35-24 Box Score Vs Kansas State 59-44 Do we want to even mention this: Last non-KU win at home 2013 vs TCU & ISU 2012 WVU 2010 Mizzou 2009 OU & KSU 7 home conference wins vs not Kansas
2017 @ Texas 27-23 Box Score
2018 @ OSU 41-17 Box Score
Questions Going Yard What we learned Putting a 2 lb beef roast on the smoker ain’t worth it.
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Intro SPOILER ALERT - spoilers end at 4:00 Stranger Things Football NFL Hall of Fame game - Thursday 8/1; football game every weekend between then and the week after the Super Bowl (Cinco de Mayo if you count XFL) Football Media Day wrap KeSean Carter moved to outside Seth Collins moved inside Justus Parker suspended, off team
Rules changes Targeting All elements of targeting must be present in review, otherwise it will be overturned. Added “attacking” piece to targeting definition; deals with intent instead of incidental contact Repeat offender: on 3rd targeting foul, player will automatically receive a one game suspension following their missing of a half due to targeting call
Overtime Starting with the 5th overtime period, teams will alternate two-point attempts until winner is determined
Kickoff return blocking No more two-man wedge
Celebration penalty - THIS ONE’S GOING TO GET HAIRY Horns down no longer a foul, kind of “It depends. It’s like any unsportsmanlike act. If somebody scores quickly, turns to their cheering section, and it’s quick and they move on, we’re not going to do anything with that. If it’s to a bench or to another player, and it’s prolonged, it would be an unsportsmanlike. Like any play, there is a degree, who it’s directed at, if they do it in their bench area, we’re not going to look at it. It would be like any other celebration foul, so it has to be like any other foul we have.” - Greg Burks, Big 12 Officials Coordinator
Blind Side blocks Near elimination of all blind side blocks “When it comes to a matter of safety we’re always going to err on the side of safety. So we want the player to behave to where you can push them, shove them, not drop a shoulder or a torso and get the same effect to spring the ball carrier without delivering a blow that might hurt somebody.”
More Football Worst 3 - Michael 2017 vs TCU - 27-3 (Box Score) 2011 vs ISU - 41-7 (Box Score) 2014 @ TCU - 82-27 (Box Score)
Worst 3 - Spencer 2013 @ OU - 30-38 2015 vs OSU - 70-53 2018 @ KSU - 21-6
Twitter submission; Cooper Burnett https://twitter.com/cooptr34/status/1153828285286981634?s=21 Anything else? Questions Going Yard What we learned
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Basketball Hawks making room for Mooney? TWolves not playing Culver Football Mahomes Best NFL Player https://twitter.com/texastechfb/status/1149095546965172225?s=21
Texas Tech Football Hall of Fame Inductees: Mike Sears, Dwayne Slay https://twitter.com/texastechfb/status/1148287127194615809?s=21
Media day next week Tech reps: Broderick Washington, Douglas Coleman, Travis Bruffy, Jordyn Brooks, Adrian Frye (Big 12 Champion for life rep) https://twitter.com/texastechfb/status/1148245870078550017?s=21
Preseason All Big 12 team https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2019-preseason-all-big-12-football-team-texas-qb-sam-ehlinger-oklahoma-lb-kenneth-murray-headline/
Best & Worst: Honorable Mention 2011 OSU - 66-6https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=313162641 2014 Arkansas 49-28https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=400547851 2014 & 2017 West Virginia 2014 https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=400547869 2017 https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=400934529
2015 TCU 55-52; tipped pass in the endzone https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=400763425 2016 ISU - 66-10 https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=400869595 2016 Arizona State - Kalen Ballage; 68-55 https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=400869100
Questions Going Yard What we learned KFC started making this.
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Intro Plans for the offseason? Football All those recruits that we'll hopefully get to watch play in 4 years. Maybe. DE Clinton Anokwuru RB Tahj Brooks WR Ja’Lynn Polk WR JJ Sparkman IR Quinshone Bright OL Larry Moore DB Je’Vaun Dabon
OSU rescinds offer after TTU visit Grad transfer QB Jackson Tyner, Rice; 6’5 251, Edgewood, TX Basketball Culver drafted #6 to Minnesota via trade with Phoenix Kyle is happy Mooney signed with Atlanta Owens signed with Phoenix Corprew suspended OSU hires brother of #2 uncommitted recruit; Cade Cunningham Made room for this hire by moving an assistant coach to a special assistant to the head coach (same position as Sean Sutton at Tech)
Baseball Took a thrashing from Michigan Vandy is down 0-1 Only one drafted commit coming to Tech C Nate Rombach (h/t Dinger Derby), Mansfield,TX 19th Round, Miami Marlins
http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/06/24/red-raiders-in-the-pros/ Questions Since Kliff isn't coaching, are you more or less excited to talk Tech football than previous years? Going Yard Mowed the ol' lawn myself this week What We Learned Bart Reagor hired the same PR guys who represent Leach to video a 12 min "interview". https://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20190624/reagor-breaks-his-silence-in-new-statement
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Intro Fathers Day Recap Football Summer workouts in full force Basketball Ondigo transferred to Rice Draft is Thursday, June 20th New Orleans made huge trade with LA for additional first round picks https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1140023139142971392?s=19 New Orleans now has 1st and 4th pick in the draft. Mooney worked out with the Pacers Track Oduduru to go pro https://texastech.com/news/2019/6/13/track-and-field-oduduru-announces-decision-to-turn-pro.aspx Baseball Loss to Michigan on Saturday Win on Tuesday knocks out Arkansas Game against FSU Wed at 6pm Keith TV sightings Questions Onions on cheese enchiladas - Spencer went to Nora’s Foods you crave after being out of Texas. Going Yard Hail = slow release water What We Learned Dr. Pepper Dark Berry tastes like someone melted a cherry popsicle in a flat Dr. Pepper.
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Intro Men’s Track & Field national title Baseball Supers reviewWeekend was nuts Friday, W 8-6Micah Dallas (7-0; ), McMillon got the save; Dallas, Haveman (1.1 IP), Floyd (0.2 IP, rolled his ankle), McMillon (2.0 IP) Cody Masters and Josh Jung homered Saturday, L 5-6Caleb Killian (6 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 5 K, 2 BB); Queen (1 IP), Haveman (0.2 IP), Beeter (0.1 IP), Floyd (0.1 IP) Beeter walked first batter B9, Floyd comes in, 2 WPs advanced runner to second then third, walked a batter, got a foul out, walked one more batter to load the bases, then a WP to score runner from third Sunday, W 8-6 That wind on Sunday, manBryce Bonnin (4.1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 6 K, 3 BB); McMillon 3.2 IP, Haveman 1.0 IP T2 - Boone HR to LF, T2 B3 - OTremba 2B LF, B3; Fulford 2B LF (scores TOT); Neuse 2B to CF (scores Fulford, thrown out going for 3B; Tech up 2-1) B4 - Jung solo HR, B4 (during Josh Holliday in-game interview) T5 - Morrell 2B to LCF gap; Funk 2B to RF corner (Morrell scored, 3-2 Tech); Funk advanced to 3B, Simpson sac fly (3-3) B5 - Fulford homered (4-3) T7 - Cabbiness homered (4-4) T8 - Simpson homered (5-4); Navigato walked, stole second and advanced to 3B on E2; Carter sac fly (6-4) B8 - Jung solo HR (6-5); Warren walked (Marusak pinch run), Marusak stole second, advanced to 3B on E2, Masters walked, Baker K, Wilson homered to LF (8-6) Omaha look aheadTech bracket: Tech, Michigan, Arkansas, Florida St Other side: Vanderbilt, Louisville, Mississippi St., Auburn Tech game 1: vs Michigan, Saturday @ 1p.m.Tech outscored UM 29-10 when Tech hosted weekend series in March (7 runs in gm 1 were unearned; 8 total errors over the weekend) Michigan won Corvallis Regional (didn’t play Oregon State) Won UCLA Super Regional; 3-2, 4-5, 4-2 Football? Wells and his son at baseball games? Basketball Upcoming draft Questions Going Yard What we learned
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Intro Weber Kettle Talk ESPN3 Confusion Football Players reported https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/06/03/houston-to-add-pair-of-offensive-linemen-as-graduate-transfers-from-ucla-texas-tech/ Ward is gone https://twitter.com/KTXT_Sports/status/1136070981510946816?s=19 Good riddance - after 3 years on campus, he still doesn’t know the name of the school
New commit - 2020 DB Jonathan Davis; 6’1 165, South Oak Cliff Current class, 3 commits: Davis, QB Donovan Smith (Frenship, Lubbock), OL Caleb Rogers (Lake Ridge, Mansfield)
Baseball MLB Draft Results Josh Jung - 1st Round, 8th overall, Texas Rangers Gabe Holt - 7th Round, 223rd overall, Milwaukee Brewers (Udder Tuggers) Caleb Killian - 8th Round, 236th overall, San Francisco Giants Taylor Floyd - 10th Round, 313rd round, Milwaukee Brewers
Regional Review; tale of pitching and Cam Warren Army 11-2 Micah Dallas, 7 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 7 K, 1 BB; Ryan Sublette 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 K, 1 BB; Caleb Freeman, 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 K, 1 BB Cam Warren 2 for 4, 3 RBI, 1 HR, 1 BB
DBU 3-2 Caleb Killian, 4.2 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 5 K, 1 BB; Taylor Floyd 4.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 5 K, 1 BB Cam Warren 1 for 3, 2 RBI, 1 HR, 1 BB
DBU 3-0 Bryce Bonnin, 7 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 7 K, 2 BB; John McMillon 2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 5 K, 0 BB Cam Warren 2 for 3, 3 RBI, 1 HR, 1 BB Cam’s weekend: 5 for 10 (.500), 8 RBI (17 runs scored for Tech), 3 HR
Supers Preview Friday 1 UCLA vs Michigan 2 Vanderbilt vs Duke 7 Louisville vs 10 East Carolina 8 Texas Tech vs 9 Oklahoma State
Saturday 5 Arkansas vs 12 Ole Miss 6 Miss St vs 11 Stanford 13 LSU vs Florida St 14 North Carolina vs Auburn
Basketball Culver worked out with Lakers Mooney to work out with Spurs Draft is Thursday, June 20th Questions I sent out the tweet, so now we wait. Going Yard Guys at Home Depot need to mind their own business What We Learned There is such a beer as an NEIPA and the one at The Brewery LBK is better than good. Shipley's is also good.
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Intro Keith’s walk up music Art Briles hired by Mount Vernon HS Softball Season wrap 42-16; 8-10 Baton Rouge Regional 3-2; W vs LT, L vs LSU, W vs LT & LSU, L vs LSU (in championship game, would have advanced to Supers with win)
Second highest win total in program history; Adrian Gregory’s best season with .724 winning percentage Track Prelims recap Nation leading 19 qualifiers for men’s team; 2 for women Men’s 4x100 39.00 Men’s 200M Andrew Hudson 20.04 Divine Oduduru 20.08
Baseball Big 12 tournament recap Would you change tournament format? JL suggested changing Saturday games to single elimination; removes double advantage for 2-0 team who already had Friday off
Selection Sunday/Monday results Texas Tech, Oregon State, Stanford & Arkansas only 4 teams to host regionals last 4 years Other Big 12 Top 16 seeds Other Big 12 tournament appearances Notable teams/regional draws Regional/Super conference alignments Louisville as 7 seed
Lubbock Regional preview; Friday-Monday 1 Tech 39-17 Dallas, Killian, Bonnin (Dobbins) rotation? Hit .301, 57 HR
2 Dallas Baptist 41-18 Hit .282, 70 HR Main hitter Bryce Ball; .308/.603/.428 17 HR Probable early starters: MD Johnson 9-2, 2.46 ERA (.97 WHIP), 91.1 IP, (only 7 2B all season), 105K:23BB Jordan Martinson 8-3, 2.5 ERA (1.05 WHIP), 93.2 IP, 108K:25BB
3 Florida 33-24 Hits .281, 70 HR Main hitter Brady McConnell, .341/.594/.392 15 HR 47 RBI Also Nelson Maldonado .332/.571/.393 10 HR Probable early starters Tommy Mace 8-4, 4.99 ERA (1.40 WHIP), 88.1 IP, 73K:38BB Jack Leftwich 5-5, 5.82 ERA (1.52 WHIP), 55.2 IP 55K:17BB
4 Army 35-24 Patriot League Tournament Champs (vs Navy) Hit .273, 27 HR Main hitter Anthony Giachin .323/.518/.413 6HR, 67 RBI Beware of small ball Jacob Hurtubise leads regional with 45 stolen bases (52 attempts); .550 OBP
Probable early starters Daniel Burggraaf 5-2, 2.85 ERA (1.15 WHIP) 82 IP, 82K:21BB Tyler Giovinco 8-5, 3.43 ERA (1.28 WHIP); 89.1 IP, 66K:19BB
Game 1 (3pm)
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Intro Favorite pitcher hype song (for John McMillon): Big Bad John, Jimmy Dean; not the greatest ending for ole Big Bad John, but cool nonetheless Jimmy Dean from Plainview “Best known for 1961 hit “Big Bad John”, his 1961 recitation song about a heroic miner. The song went on to become #1 on Billboard pop chart; sold over a million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Track peaked at #2 in the UK Singles Chart. Song won Dean the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording” Basketball Chris Clarke transfer from Va Tech; 6’6 215lbs; rated #8 grad transfer for 2019
62 recruit coming out of high school, lower than only Jahmius Ramsey and Khavon Moore
2017-2018 stats: 8.2 ppg, 6.3 rebounds, 98 assists, 31 steals Sat out 2018-2019 season, dismissed from Va Tech after misdemeanor drug charge (roommate also charged with misdemeanor drug possession charge, but not suspended) Career stats: 54% FG, 42.4% 3FG (low volume shooter, 14/33 in 2017-2018), 66.6% FT (draws a lot of contact, shot 94 FTs in 2017-2018, would have been 3rd highest on this year’s Tech team); 1.93 TO/g (Culver had 2.7/g this year, Mooney had 2.5), 2.6 assists/gm; 6.5 rebounds/gm (Culver led Tech with 6.4) Called a “junkyard dog defender” by Rob Dauster of NBC Sports; was Va Tech’s best defender Averaged giving up 98.7 points per 100 possessions; all of Tech’s starters averaged better, closest Tech starter would have been Moretti at 93.8
Tyreek Smith committed; 6’8 205lbs; Trinity Christian (Cedar Hill, TX) 4, rated between 101st and 153rd overall in 2019 class Played on same high school AAU team as 5 target RJ Hampton Interior slasher, dunker, lane defender; not much of a jump shooter
Still have one scholarship available for 2019-2020 (Khalid Thomas decommitted) Only 3 contributors from 2018-2019 season returning: Davide Moretti, Kyler Edwards, & Deshawn Corprew (5 total counting Kevin McCullar & Andre Savrasov) Guards: Moretti; Edwards, McCullar, Jahmius Ramsey, Clarence Nadolny
Forwards Corprew, Savrasov, Terrance Shannon, TJ Holyfield, Chris Clarke, Tyreek Smith
Center Russel Tchewa
Football Anything? Wells was at all 3 baseball games (headsetless); man among the people, incognito; he talked to me for 2 seconds about me keeping score and said “old school. I like it”. So now, I’ve arrived. Baseball Season Awards Josh Jung, Co-Big 12 Player of the Year (49 GP, .333/.597/.471 (OPS 1.068), 186 ABs, 49 Rs, 62 hits (20 2B, 1 3B, 9 HR), 49 RBI Shared with Baylor INF Davis Wendzel (40 GP, .385/.647/.500 (OPS 1.147), 159 ABs, 39 Rs, 60 hits (17 2B, 8 HR), 39 RBI For comparison, Cam Warren; 51 GP, .354/.667/.448 (OPS 1.115) 189 ABs, 51 Rs, 67 hits (16 2B, 2 3Bs, 13 HRs) 65 RBI https://kkam.com/why-does-the-big-12-love-co-award-winners-so-much/
G avg OB% slg% AB R H 2B 3b HR RBI BB SO Wendzel 40 .385 .500 .647 156 36 60 17 0 8 39 27 32 Warren 51 .354 .448 .667 189 51 67 16 2 13 65 31 21 Jung 49 .333 .471 .597 186 49 62 20 1 9 49 46 34
All Big 12 First Team: Jung, Warren, Gabe Holt, Caleb Killian, Taylor Floyd All Big 12 Second Team: Brian Klein, Dylan Neuse, Clayton Beeter Honorable Mention: Braxton Fulford, Dane Haveman, John McMillon All Freshman Team: Beeter, Micah Dallas, Cole Stillwell
Came into the weekend .5 game back from Baylor Thursday, L 1-3 in 14 Friday, W 7-2 Saturday, W 8-4 Conference champions again! Third time in 4 years, unshared this season
National Seed/Super Regional Host discussion h/t KP Dinger Derby Texas Tech unshared conference champions of #2 RPI conference Texas Tech, RPI #9, SoS #12, NonCon RPI #16, NonCon SoS #17 Louisville, RPI #7, SoS #27, NonCon RPI #21, NonCon SoS #119 Arkansas, RPI #6, SoS #11, NonCon RPI #43, NonCon SoS #158
Big 12 Tournament schedule Your pod includes 1 seed Tech, 4 seed WVU, 5 seed Kansas, 8 seed Kansas State (other pod is 2 seed Baylor, 3 seed Okla St, 6 seed TCU, 7 seed Oklahoma; will only face a team from this pod in championship game) Double Elimination format Will face KSU first (Wed 1230), likely Griffin Hassall on the mound (4.25 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 2-3 on the year on 13 appearances, 35K:24BB (1.45 K:BB ratio) Pitched vs Tech 3/30, L for Hassall, 6 IP, 4H, 3R (1ER), 2BB, 2K
Likely to face WVU in second round (Thursday, 4p); or Kansas is they upset; WVU #2 pitcher is Jackson Wolf (4.75 ERA, 1.51 WHIP, 2-4 on the year with 14 appearances, 46K:26BB (1.77 K:BB ratio) Pitched vs Tech 4/13, W for Wolf, 4.1 IP, 8H, 3R (3ER), 1BB, 3K
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Intro Walk up music: https://www.flosoftball.com/articles/5048535-the-greatest-walk-up-songs-of-all-time Softball Basketball NBA Draft Lottery https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/nba-draft-lottery-2019-results-picks-order/
Football Transfer portal https://247sports.com/college/texas-tech/Season/2019-Football/TransferPortal/
Late addition to 2019 recruiting class Kosi Eldridge, 6-1 210 Kilgore College; full qualifier out of high school, has 4 years to play 3
Fox to have its best game of the day set for 11am every Saturdayhttps://twitter.com/slmandel/status/1128056359860047872?s=19 Baseball Weekend results Updated standings Track & Field Back-to-Back Big 12 Indoor/Outdoor Champions Oduduru setting first sub-10 100m ever at a Big 12 meet (9.99 seconds) Oduduru was also part of Big 12 meet record setting 4x100 Meat Judging Featured in Sports Illustratedhttps://www.si.com/more-sports/2019/05/09/collegiate-meat-judging-big-12-texas-tech-mark-miller-taylor-schertz Questions What we learned
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Intro Here come the BBQ judge Hocutt contract; two year extension (out to 8/31/27), compensation increased to $1.5M annual, 3% increases annually. Been with Tech 8 seasons now. “Numerous programs have experienced unprecedented success and become national powers in several sports, and the athletics program as a whole has seen tremendous growth in facilities and financial support…2017-2018 athletic season was one of the best in school history, with six programs - baseball, men’s basketball, men’s golf, women’s tennis and men’s track and field (indoor and outdoor) all finishing in the top 8 in the country in their respective sports. In all, Texas Tech has claimed 13 Big 12 titles under Hocutt.” Red & Black Gala (formerly TECHspys), recognizes outstanding performance from the 2018-2019 academic year Top Team GPA: Women’s Tennis Women’s COTY: Adrian Gregory (Softball 38-13, 8-10; 31-28 in 2018, 19-36 in 2017) Men’s COTY: Chris Beard Women’s Fearless Champion Award: Zarriea Willis (T&F) Men’s Fearless Champion Award: Jarrett Culver Jeannine McHaney Award: Jessica Hartwell (softball) JT & Margaret Talkington Leadership Academy Award: Travis Bruffy (football) Good Citizen Award: Volleyball Female Team of the Year: Softball Male Team of the Year: Men’s Basketball More categories: Big 12 Dr Gerald Lage Award, Strength & Conditioning Workhorse (one selection from every team), Texas Tech Athletics Teammate Award, Athletic Administrator of the Year Award, and Spirit & Sportsmanship Award Baseball 34-14; 14-7, #2 in Big 12, #10 in D1 Baseball Top 25, #9 in RPI
Wins
Losses
Games Back
Remaining
Baylor
14
6
-
@OSU
Texas Tech
14
7
0.5
vs TCU
OSU
10
8
3
OU**, vs BU
WVU*
11
10
3.5
@KSU
OU*
8
10
5
OSU, @UT
TCU*
8
10
5
vs KU, @TTU
KU*
8
10
5
@TCU, vs KSU
KSU*
7
11
6
vs WVU, @KU
UT*
6
14
8
vs OU
Eliminated from Big 12 regular season title *OU & OSU played non conference game on 3/26 in Stillwater; Bedlam series gm 1 in Tulsa, 2 in Oklahoma City, 3 in Norman Did you know Skip Johnson and Tim Tadlock played on the same little league team in Denton?? Swept OU; first series win in Norman since 1999; third sweep of OU under Tadlock won last 8 Big 12 games (going back to gm 1 vs Baylor, 11-10 11 inning loss), 3rd straight Big 12 series Hitting was storyline of the weekend: 17 extra base hits, 13 doubles, 1 triple, 3 HRs; Warren named Big 12 player of the week (led the conference in hitting, slugging and OBP for the week; hit .583, 4 of his 7 hits were extra base hits Friday Cam Warren 4-4, 4R, 4 RBI (65 (through 6 in gm1 vs FIU), leads team and conference), 2 HR (13); .343/.663/.443, 1.106OPS Josh Jung 3-4, 4R; .359/.641/.491 1.132 OPS Scored 3 runs in 7th Micah Dallas started, Hunter Dobbins gets the win, Taylor Floyd gets the save
Saturday Gabe Holt 3-5, 1 R, 1 RBI; .328/.434/.417 Cam Warren 2-3, 1 R, 2 BB (30, 4th on team) Scored 4 runs in 7th Killian started, Connor Queen gets the win, Dane Haveman finished game with bases loaded, up 7-3
Sunday Gabe Holt 3-4; stole likely RBI extra base hit in 3rd with 2 runners on Josh Jung 4-5 Cody Masters 3-5, 2 RBI, .309/.495/.373 Bryce Bonnie started and got the win; threw 6 shutout innings, 2 hits
Midweek series (Tuesday double header) vs FIU; both games on Texas Tech TVGame 1 moved up to 11am due to inclement weather with game 2 being canceled Keith, DInger Derby: Tech has the resume of a Top 8 national seed; 15-6 against RPI Top 25, 27-12 vs RPI Top 100 (more Top 100 wins available on the schedule with TCU); HUGE drop for Oregon State who was projected as #6 seed - RPI dropped to 23 Basketball Jahmius Ramsey got his 5th star (Rivals) NCAA produced tourney highlight video of Tech’s run and it brought back all the heartache Assistant coaches salary pool increase; from $820k to $1.1M John Reilly (S&C) salary $100k - $160k
Football John Scott III discharged from UMC Matt Wells working the local scene Transfers OUT QB McLane Carter (Rutgers), OL Giovanni Pancotti, LB Ja’Quay Pough, DL Joe Wallace
IN WR McLane Mannix 5’10 180, Junior (Nevada, career stats in 2 seasons: 107 receptions, 1,653 yards, 13 TDS) WR Reginald Turner II, 6’2 205, Senior (also listed as RJ Turner, ULM; career stats in 3 seasons: 90 receptions, 1,662 yards, 10 TDS) RB Armand Shyne 5’11 210 Senior (Utah, American River College; career stats (2016 & 2018 RS in 17): 198 carries, 885 yards, 9 TDS, 4.5 ypc; 4 receptions, 16 yards LB Evan Rambo, 6’4 210 possibly junior with 2 seasons left (Cal, career stats: 34 tackles, 1 interception, 2 passes deflected, 2 sacks) DB Zech McPherson, 5’11 190 (Penn State, career stats in 24 games: 16 tackles, 3 passes deflected, 1 fumble recovery)
Mannix can play immediately Kingsbury, Brady and Mayfield at the Derby Amendola won $100k off Brady on drunk bet https://www.golocalprov.com/sports/video-brady-amendola-make-100k-bet-following-kentucky-derby Questions What We Learned Don’t Shoot at Tornadoes: https://kkam.com/a-reminder-do-not-shoot-at-tornadoes/
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This week we discuss the new contract extension for Texas Tech men's basketball coach Chris Beard, as well as his recent recruiting successes. The Red Raider baseball team is fresh off a sweep of the Oklahoma State Cowboys and look to travel to Norman this weekend for the last road series of the season. Fans may be a little disappointed by the performance thus far, but you are still in contention for a national seed to host a Super Regional. Let that sink in that fans may be disappointed in the season and you're still within reach of being a national seed. Matt Wells named 16 football players as team captains. That feels like too many.
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Intro Wing Daddy’s - best wings in Lubbock? Some dumb sauce names Track Divine Oduduru is fasthttps://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20190420/oduduru-runs-world-leading-100-200-times Basketball Jarrett Culver is headed to the NBA Khavon Moore is headed to the transfer portal SFA transfer TJ Holyfield visited this weekend Chris Beard still no contract Basketball Celebration Dinner (Thursday, April 25th, 6pm)http://www.kcbd.com/2019/04/22/ttu-athletics-director-coach-beard-invite-public-basketball-celebration-dinner-usa Baseball 2-1 in Baylor series After being down 9-3 in the first game, Tech outscored Baylor 23-7 including a run-rule on Saturday Got to be at Dan Law Field for the walk-off single in Game 2 Wednesday’s game against New Mexico is cancelled This weekend in Lubbock vs. Oklahoma State Friday - 6:30pm - TexasTech.TV Saturday - 7:30pm - ESPNU Sunday - 2pm - FSSW+
Football Wells is throwing out the first pitch soon Keith said no one spoke to Wells when he was at the baseball game this weekend Questions Going Yard What we learned
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A special mailbag edition of the 23 Personnel Podcast
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Intro Hub City Wings nearly melted my face off and I loved every bite - also may have found the substitute for the Chili Dog Cafe cheese sticks Basketball Fan letter from Harrison Hill https://twitter.com/harryttulaw/status/1117155769605083137?s=12 Culver has big announcement on Thursday Moretti’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/davide25moretti/status/1116028367084584961 Beard on the recruiting trail 2019-2020 needs Current recruiting class + outgoing seniors fill 13 roster spots Possible defections Jarrett Culver Khavon Moore Malik Ondigo Josh Mballa
2019-2020 roster
Targets TJ Holyfield 6’8 230 (grad transfer, SFA); 12.9 ppg (2017-2018), 55% FG, 41% 3PT, 6.4 reb, 45 blocks, 40 steals David Skogman, 6’10 210 (Wisc. HS); 3 recruit, most schools backed off after he suffered cardiac arrest, has since been medically cleared; 18.3 ppg, 12.7 reb Jordan Brown 6’10, 210 (Nevada non-grad transfer); former McDonald’s All American 5; 3 ppg, 2.1 reb, 10 minutes/gm Tristan Enaruna, 6’10 205 (Utah HS); 4; hearing from/visits scheduled with Kansas, Miami, Creighton Shaker Juiston 6’7 220 (grad transfer, UNLV); 14.6 ppg, 10 reb (2017-2018), missed last season with knee injury; no. 1 JUCO recruit in 2017, 4 Chris Harris, 6’3 195 SG (signed with A&M in early period, class of ‘19); 3-4*; down to Oklahoma State, Texas Tech Christian Keeling 6’4 175 SG (grad transfer, Charleston Southern); 18.7 ppg, 6.9 reb Sean McNeil 6’4 190 (Sinclair Juco), 29.2 ppg, 42% 3PT, top 6 of TTU, Dayton, Ole Miss, Oregon, WKU, WVU Clarence Nadolny 6’3 190 combo guard (NY HS), Paris, France native, down to WVU, ISU, TTU (visiting those 3 in that order) Rayjon Tucker 6’5 210 wing (Little Rock grad transfer); 20.3 ppg, 6.7 reb Kerry Blackshear, 6’10” grad transfer from VaTech; 15 ppg, 7 reb (have heard nothing but wanted to start the rumor)
Baseball Midweek game in Midland vs NMSU Weekend series @ WVU Football Spring game New media deal McLane Carter transferring Going Yard What we learned Zhaire Smith almost died: https://www.gq.com/story/zhaire-smith-76ers-deadly-allergic-reaction
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Spencer and Michael give their reactions and breakdowns of the final game of the 2018-2019 Texas Tech men's basketball season that ended in agonizing defeat. We also briefly discuss Texas Tech baseball, spring football, and nearly getting ejected from a tee ball game.
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Spencer and Michael give you some of that juicy instant reaction as Texas Tech takes down the Michigan State Spartans to advance to its first ever National Championship Game appearance.
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INTRO “Texas Tech is in the Final Four” BASKETBALL “No Middle” defense Averaging 7.4 steals pg (#54 nationally); 15.7 turnovers forced pg (#22); Tariq Owens 88 blocks Tech opponents averaging 57 pts; 37.4% FG; 23.4% 3PT Switch on everything, no weak link in defense; switched less on Gonzaga in second half as part of adjustment Weakest part of TTU defense is rebounding, rank #131 (MSU is #6)
3 point shooting Texas Tech is 17-0 when making at least 7 3-pointers Tech has 6 players who made at least 20 3-pointers this season; four are shooting 38% or better (Davide Moretti 46.3%; Kyler Edwards 43.8%; Deshawn Corprew 40.8%; Matt Mooney 38.1%) Tech averages 7.2 make 3-pointers on 19.6 attempts pg, ranks #67 nationally in 3PT% Tech fell below that in games vs NKU, Buffalo, and Michigan
Sweet Sixteen Wrap; defeated Michigan 63-44 https://texastech.com/boxscore.aspx?id=14439&path=mbball We went into this game worried about Michigan’s defense and Moretti’s inaccuracy beyond the arch (0-7 from 3pt in first two games) Moretti ended up with 15 points on 5-7 shooting (3-4 3PT) 2-2 FT Initially felt that rebounds would tell the story. Michigan still outgained TTU 35-31 on the glass. TTU was up 8-6 after 11 min - 14 total points. This. Is. March. TTU allowed 16 points in the first half while scoring 24
Elite Eight Wrap; defeated 1 seed Gonzaga 75-69 on Saturday https://texastech.com/boxscore.aspx?id=14452&path=mbball Tech outscored Zags 40-32 in second half Culver 19 pts; Mooney 17 pts; Moretti 12 pts First time in the tournament this year to allow 60 or more points; to no. 1 offensive efficiency ranked team 19 points below Gonzaga season scoring average
Final Four Tech’s path to the Final Four; eliminated BPI teams 2, 8, & 22 MSU eliminated 3, 24, 53 (best win was 1 point) Virginia (9, 29, 34; best win in OT); Auburn (7, 5, 18)
Matchup with Michigan State, Sat. 4/6, 7:49 p.m., US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis; defeated 1 seed Duke 68-67 on Sunday Guard Cassius Winston averaging 19 ppg in tournament ESPN Jeff Borzello “How the Final Four Teams Were Built (ESPN Top 100 Recruits)” Michigan State: 7, Texas Tech: 0 Detroit News James Hawkins “Texas Tech’s Chris Beard admires Tom Izzo and Michigan State, won’t let them be cowed by Spartans” Beard’s admiration of Izzo MSU terminology “Michigan State toughness” “Tom Izzo rebounding” Beard: “The last two years, when we get to March, no matter who’s in front of us, we’ve played against a team just as good in the Big 12. So as as Michigan State is - and believe me, they’re really, really good, obviously - we have played teams this year, Kansas State and Iowa State, we have played Duke in non conference. So for us, it’s another great game.”
BPI 39.3%; FiveThirtyEight 46%; Haslametrics 66.3 - 65.8; Las Vegas MSU -155 (Tech +135), -3 (implied odds MSU 60.8 - 42.6 TTU)
Texas Monthly Dan Solomon “A Handy Guide to Hopping on the Texas Tech Basketball Bandwagon” Brian Hamilton (@_Brian_Hamilton) has had excellent articles on The Athletic profiling Mooney, Moretti, Culver (today), and chronicling how TTU made it to Minneapolis FOOTBALL DeMarcus Fields has returned to the team and is practicing (suspended with Da’Leon Ward, Joseph Wallace, Corey Fulcher) There was a scrimmage in Lubbock on Saturday, apparently https://texastech.com/news/2019/3/30/football-wells-takes-in-first-scrimmage-to-start-spring-series.aspx Coach Wells, “"I liked the way the defense tackled," Wells said. "I thought we tackled well in space. I thought Ta'Zhawn Henry ran with good balance. He had some runs with good vision and good balance. SaRodorick (Thompson) made a nice run on the touchdown run. Those were the three things that stood out the most to me."
Midland Scrimmage this Friday (April 5th) - 7pm - Grande Communications Stadium Spring Game Sat (April 13th) - 2pm - The Star in Frisco BASEBALL 19-7 (3-3); def. UNM 15-6 Went 2-1 in Manhattan Playing at New Mexico tonight (7pm) and tomorrow (2pm) Back at home against KU this weekend (Texas Tech TV only) QUESTIONS https://twitter.com/LSRR07/status/1113134262113521666 GOIN YARD WHAT WE LEARNED Someone made a Spotify playlist of Coach Beard’s Fireside Chat recommendations (thank you, Tyler): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ZGvcIKRDpQrRLjWvKLpYR?si=3p66KYZ-RWqNT9XhurK-yQ
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Basketball 3 TTU takes down 14 Northern Kentucky Norse, 72-57 https://texastech.com/boxscore.aspx?id=14438&path=mbball Tech pulled away after a 30-26 halftime lead Held Drew McDonald to 5 pts on 2-13 shooting (came in to game averating 19.1 ppg Culver (29 points, 10-17 FG, 3-5 3pt, 34 minutes) Turnovers: TTU 11 - NKU 17 NKU Shooting: 37% FG, 23% 3PT, 75% FT TTU Shooting: 53% FG, 35% 3PT, 59% FT NKU (ORB-DRB REB) 12-27 39 TTU (ORB-DRB REB) 2-29 31
3 TTU demolishes 6 Buffalo Bulls, 78-58 https://texastech.com/boxscore.aspx?id=14441&path=mbball Tech went on an 9-0 run to end the half and lead 33-25; eventually goes on 26-3 run spanning end of 1H into 2H Buffalo went without a field goal for over an hour real time TTU lead by 29 at one point in the second half Odiase (14 points, 4-4 FG, 6-7 FT, 15 REB 25 minutes) Turnovers: TTU 14 - Buffalo 16 Buffalo Shooting: 37% FG, 33% 3PT, 50% FT TTU Shooting: 48% FG, 31% 3PT, 76% FT Buffalo (ORB-DRB REB) 13-19 32 TTU (ORB-DRB REB) 15-30 45
Anaheim, California Will face 2 Michigan on Thursday at 8:39pm (central) on CBS By the Numbers: http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/03/26/by-the-numbers-texas-techs-ncaa-tournament-odds-sweet-16/ TTU BPI 17.4 Michigan BPI 18.4 FiveThirtyEight has TTU at slight favorite (51-49) Haslam has Tech losing 60.8-61.4 Spread is Michigan -1.5 or -2 Michigan at -135 (O/U total at 126) Am seeing -120 in places for Michigan and +110 for Techhttps://www.oddsshark.com/ncaab/texas-tech-michigan-odds-march-28-2019-1106423
Translation: IT’S GONNA BE CLOSE, FOLKS
Charles Matthews v. Culver https://971theticket.radio.com/articles/john-beileins-plan-slow-down-texas-tech-star-jarrett-culver-charles-matthews Red Raiders rank First in Defensive Efficiency Michigan ranks third behind VCU TTU ranks third in ppg (59.2) only behind Michigan and Virginia
Dan will have an interview with Dylan Burkhardt of UMHoops.com
Sweet Sixteen Thursday 1 Gonzaga v 4 FSU West; 6:09 PM CBS 2 Tennessee v 3 Purdue South; 6:29 TBS 2 Michigan v 3 Texas Tech West; 8:39, CBS 1 Virginia v 12 Oregon South; 8:59, TBS
Friday 2 Michigan State v 3 LSU East; 6:09 CBS 1 North Carolina v 5 Auburn Midwest; 6:29 TBS 1 Duke v 4 Virginia Tech East; 8:39 CBS 2 Kentucky v 3 Houston Midwest; 8:59 TBS
Football Saddle Up - Episode 2 https://texastech.com/watch/?Archive=18631&type=Archive Lubbock Spring Game - Saturday, 3/30 Baseball Three game sweep of #22 Michigan, outscored Wolverines 29-10 Split a two-game series on Sun-Mon with Stetson Big 12 Play resumes this weekend in Manhattan vs. Kansas State (Fri-Sun) on ESPN3 Two game mid-week series the following Tue-Wed against New Mexico in the ‘Querque on Mountain West Network Questions https://twitter.com/B_DonCarlos/status/1110647866903707649?s=19 Going Yard 2nd mow, first fertilizer application down; almost time for you Bermuda folks What we learned Cooked my first Hello Fresh meal. Did not burn down the house or contract food poisoning. https://www.hellofresh.com/recipes/figgy-balsamic-pork-5a5ce49ed56afa5c2710c852
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Basketball TTU goes down to WVU 79-74 in the Big 12 Tourney https://texastech.com/boxscore.aspx?id=14423&path=mbball WVU looked tough against OU the night before. OU almost took it to overtime on a last second shot from beyond the arc, but the toe was on the line. Tech trailed by as many as 17 in the first half and didn't take the lead until two minutes left in the game (the Culver blocked-three, coast-to-coast spectacular) WVU 22-11 advantage in second-chance points. Freshman Emmitt Matthews, Jr. went supernova. Averaging 3.9 pts/game coming into the game, came up with 28 points on 10-14 shooting (2-4 3PT), 6-6 from the line in 30 minutes. 6 ORB-2DRB. Culver with a double-double (26 points, 10 boards) and 1000 career points (0-6 from 3). Rebounds: TTU - 7 ORB - 23 DRB (30 TOTAL) WVU - 19 ORB - 25 DRB (44 TOTAL)
“Learn & Burn” Beard on SVP: https://twitter.com/TexasTechMBB/status/1107657334497730561?s=19 Headed to Tulsa Picked a 3-seed and will face 14 Northern Kentucky on Friday at 12:30pm BPI 91.8% chance for TTU win; predicted margin of victory 15 points
http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/03/18/linking-up-texas-techs-ncaa-berth/ Dan will have a Q&A with Austin Elmore - Producer of ESPN Radio (Cincinnati) and Northern Kentucky alum going up Thursday morning Winner to face 6 Buffalo vs. 11 Arizona State/St. Johns (play-in game is Wed 8:10pm) Interview with Rick Broering!
Football Debut of Saddle Up: https://texastech.com/watch/?Archive=18590&type=Live http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/03/18/a-clearer-view-of-matt-wells-coaching-philosophy/ Four Players Suspended (DaLeon Ward, Joe Wallace, Demarcus Fields, and Corey Fulcher)https://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20190319/wells-suspends-four-tech-players-indefinitely Open scrimmage Friday night Baseball 1-2 in Austin Game 1 (L 4-3): TTU with no hits after 5th inning. Struggled scoring. Two run error in the 6th. Haveman had his first walk of the season, but terrible timing Game 2 (W 3-0): Cutting it close with a potential walk-off to take the lead in the bottom of the 9th. Great pitching - UT with only 1 hit on the day. Game 3 (L 4-3): More trouble at the plate
Three game series at Home against Michigan (Thur-Sat) then two game series vs Stetson (Sun & Mon) Questions Going Yard What we learned Lubbock’s Two Docs Brewing Co. makes some fine beer (Red Dirt Red & Steampunk Ale).
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Intro Appetizers as entrees Paradise French Fries Update from Brian: pulled pork and chicken nuggets Basketball 1-0 this week; 9 game win streak; 26-5, 14-4 - BIG 12 CHAMPS 80-73 @ ISU on Saturdayhttps://texastech.com/boxscore.aspx?id=14038&path=mbball KSU went on to beat OU for their share of the title TTU up to #7 in the AP poll - only team in top 10 unranked preseason Honors (others I’ve missed?) Culver named AP Big 12 Player of the Year (Beard name AP Coach)https://apnews.com/45a35bdad4af423a90d96db850a8da13 Culver named Big 12 Player of the Year ISU Stats: 12-19 FG, 4-8 3PT, 3-3 FT, 31 points, 37 min
Beard named Big 12 Coach of the Year (not “co”) http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/03/10/jarrett-culver-named-big-12-player-of-the-year-chris-beard-named-big-12-coach-of-the-year/ NBC sports names Culver to first team and Beard shares the coaching award with Purdue’s Matt Painterhttps://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2019/03/11/postseason-awards-2018-19-all-american-teams-player-of-the-year-coach-of-the-year/
4-star recruit SF Terrence Shannonhttp://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/03/11/quick-reaction-4-star-sf-terrence-shannon-commits-to-texas-tech/ Big 12 Tourney - Tech with a first round bye will play winner of OU/WVU on Thursday at 8pm (ESPN/ESPN2)https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/2019-03-11/2019-big-12-tournament-bracket-schedule-scores-seeds Beard contract extension? Current contract: 6 year, $19 million ($3.167 million/year), signed March 2018 Bill Self: $4.95 million Bob Huggins: $3.76 mil Lon Kruger & Shaka Smart: $3.1 mil Scott Drew: $2.86
Football Spring break Baseball 2-0 in San Diego Notes from Dinger Derby pod: New Nickname - Bam Bam O’Tremba Played 10 pitchers in Game 2 Neuse - leading red raiders in batting average, slugging percentage, and on base percentage, 6 multi-RBI games, tied for most home runs (3)
3-0 sweep at home against Wichita State Texas Series starts Friday in Austin Questions TTU Softball Stan Account @B_DonCarlosOut of the entire Full House cast, did you think it would be Aunt Becky that got nailed by the feds first?References: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2019/03/12/lori-loughin-indicted-full-house-aunt-becky-reactions/3139504002/ https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admission-cheating-scheme/index.html Going Yard What we learned Upgrading five generations in the smart phone world is quite the leap and I now know what it costs to have a doctor remove a bead from your toddler’s nose. https://www.klll.com/chris-beard-sings-little-ditty-win-kansas-state/
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Texas Tech defeats Iowa State on the road 80-73 to finish the season 25-5, 14-4 and win (at least a share of) the Big 12 Conference Championship. LaBarre joins Spencer for a quick, instant reaction podcast recapping the historic victory!
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Intro Houston Rodeo Foods - http://bit.ly/2Tnsbwu Basketball 2-0 this week; 8 game win streak; 25-5, 13-4 81-66 @ TCU on Saturday 70-51 vs UT on Monday Football Spring practice started Sunday, March 3 WAY TOO SOON depth chartsOffenseQB: Alan Bowman, Jett Duffey, Colt Garrett (Carter recovering from surgery, Xavier Martin working with QBs) RB: DaLeon Ward, SaRoderick Thompson, Jax Welch (Tazhawn Henry out) WR: TJ Vasher, Caden Leggett WR: Seth Collins, Erik Eukanma IR: KeSean Carter, Dalton Rigdon, Sterling Galban TE: D. Thompson, Tyler Carr LT: Bruffy; Troy Bradshaw LG: Akamnonu; Demarcus Marshall C: B. Smith; Clayton Franks RG: Jack Anderson; Zach Adams; Will Farrar RT: T. Steele; Casey Verhulst DefenseDT/WDE: B. Washington; N. Mbanasor NT: N. McCann; J. Wallace; Jaylon Hutchings DE/SDE: E. Howard; L. Gilmore; Q. Yontz OLB/Raider (Rush end): Xavier Benson; JaQuay Pough OLB/Spur (S/LB hybrid): Justus Parker ILB: J. Brooks; B. Stringer ILB: R. Jeffers; Patrick Curley CB: D. Smith; John Davis (Octavious Morgan is still out) CB: D. Fields; Jaylon Lane S: A. Frye; T. Leggett S: D. Coleman; Q. Addison Dakota Allen Letter to NFL GM’s https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/dakota-allen-nfl-combine-letter-to-general-managers Kyler Murray CombineSupposedly interviews went WAY BAD“Murray better hope Kingsbury takes him no. 1 because this was not good. These were the worst comments I ever got on a high-rated QB and I’ve been doing this a long time. Leadership - not good. Study habits - not good. The board work - below not good. Not good in any of those areas, raising concerns about what this guy is going to do. Now, people will say “we’re going to compare him to Patrick Mahomes, we’re going to run an offense like Mahomes, we’re going to run an offense like Baker Mayfield,” ...but those guys are much different. Those guys, you never questioned them about their ability on the board, you never questioned them about their leadership ability, their work habits. They were outstanding in those areas. This guy is not outstanding in those areas and it showed up in the interview.” Baseball 0-2 in FriscoLineup changes Defensive struggles 2 games @ San Diego St Home this weekend vs Wichita St What we learned
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Intro Staked Plains BBQ Track & Field Men’s Track takes first place in Big 12 Meet, Women 2nd “The Big 12 Indoor Championships' first-ever trip through Lubbock ushered in world-leading times, broken records and the most dominant victory in the history of the conference.” Football Spring practice starts Sunday, 3/3 Special teams coach Joe Lorig - he gone as of 2/21 Wells hired Mark Tommerdahl Basketball Defensive efficiency - article by BleacherReport’s Kerry Miller 0.806 ppp Culver’s Draft Stock Up to #11 in AP (as of 2/26) Culver named Big 12 Player of the Week Kansas Game - never trailed and boat raced 'em by 29 Upcoming schedule Wed. 2/27 vs OSU Sat. 3/2 @ TCU Monday 3/4 vs UT Sat. 3/9 @ ISU
Big 12 standings as of 2/26 (including TCU v. WVU game) KSU (11-4) - Lost to KU 64-49 Monday night TTU (10-4) Kansas (10-5) Baylor (9-5) Iowa State (9-6) Texas (7-7) TCU (6-9) - Lost 104-96 in OT against WVU OU (5-10) OSU (3-11) WVU (3-12)
Baseball (Dinger Derby - @dinger_derby @keithbpatrick) Kentucky Series Recap (3-0 SWEEP) New Mexico State Recap (today) Tech won 7-0 Bonnin bounced back, pitched 6 complete innings, 4 hits, 0 runs Relief pitchers combined for 1 total hit, 0 runs
New weekend starting rotation: Lanning, Killian, Montgomery Mid-week rotation: Bonnin, Hunter Dobbins, Micah Dallas (?) Pitching article by LaBarre 2019 Frisco College Baseball Classic (this weekend) Nebraska - 3/1 @ 7pm Mississippi State - 3/2 @ 6pm Sam Houston State - 3/3 @ 3pm
Two game series at San Diego State 3/5 @ 8pm 3/6 @ 4pm
Back home for three game series against Wichita State before starting conference play against UT Questions Going Yard What We Learned Today is Johnny Cash’s birthday (born 2/26/1932) - favorite songs? Are you much of a Cash fan?
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Michael LaBarre and Kyle Jacobson join Spencer for some instant reaction podcasting after the Texas Tech Red Raider men's basketball team absolutely destroy the Kansas Jayhawks 91-62. This was the biggest loss for the Jayhawks under Bill Self and the largest margin of victory for Tech over any ranked opponent. This game was absolutely nuts and Tech led the entire way. Their stifling defense only allowed Kansas to score 20 first half points, trailing by 25 at the break, and they never really got closer in the second half. Tech shot an insane 62% from 3 and just kept answering anytime Kansas would hit a 3 and would look like they were trying to start a run of their own. Texas Tech moves into second place in the Big 12 conference with 4 games to go. They firmly hold their destiny in their hands and need to handle their business at home against Oklahoma State and Texas, and then on the road versus TCU and Iowa State.
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Intro Weirdest thing you used to do with food/strangest combo you really like Big 12 streaming apphttp://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/02/19/schovanec-big-12-to-focus-on-more-digital-content/ Football Matt Wells on a tour of Texas New Director of On-Campus Recruiting Basketball Up another notch to #14 in AP Win against OSU Mooney on fire (5/5 on first 5 3-pointers)
Win against Baylor Thoughts on Sorrells-to-Benson oop
Four wins in a row for a combined 311-215 points 4-0 against WVU, OU, OSU, & BU with a 24 pt average margin of victory Most Big 12 road wins since 2005 (h/t Kyle) Last four games averages (season average) Culver - 15.5 pts (17.7) Moretti - 12.8 pts (10.9) Mooney - 11.0 pts (10.7) Francis - 9.3 pts (5.9) Corprew - 7.0 pts (5.6)
Upcoming schedule Sat. 2/23 vs Kansas Wed. 2/27 vs OSU Sat. 3/2 @ TCU Monday 3/4 vs UT Sat. 3/9 @ ISU
Big 12 standings as of 2/19 KSU (10-3) TTU (9-4) Kansas (9-4) Iowa State (8-5) Baylor (8-5) Texas (7-6) TCU (5-8) OU (4-9) OSU (3-10) WVU (2-11) Baseball TTU takes series against Oregon 2-1 after cancelling Monday’s game Game 1 - Lost 9-4 Game 2 - Came back to win 12-11 after going down 8-0 in the first inning Game 3 - Won 6-4 http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2019/02/15/preview-series-thread-oregon-vs-texas-tech/ Questions Going Yard What We Learned The Tedeschi Trucks Band makes good music - Just as Strange (Live from the Fox Oakland) https://open.spotify.com/track/4lbuWXSrQifg4HLBSZsM17?si=3CyO866xTW6402EirzpLhg
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Intro Quick tip of the cap to United Airlines Football Signing day Results Outrage https://twitter.com/robbreauxshow/status/1094292651124445185
Kyler Murray announces he is committed to being NFL QB; will return $1.29 million back to Oakland A’s; forfeits remaining $3.16 million; A’s will reserve rights, and not get compensatory pick Basketball Back up to #15 in AP Khavon Moore will not play remainder of 2019 season; will seek medical hardship WVU dismissed 2 players; Esa Ahmad and Wes Harris Monday, 2/4 vs West Virginia 81-50 Saturday, 2/9 at Oklahoma 66-54 Tech shot 43% FG; 46% 3PT; 83% FT OU shot 36% FG; 29% 3PT; 67% FT Moro 14 points; Culver 13 pts; Mooney & Francis 11 pts Odiase 11 rebounds, 2 blocks; Owens 4 blocks Rebounds: 38 Tech had up to a 23 point lead; OU would make run and cut lead to 13 or 9, then Tech would respond and rebuild lead to 20
Upcoming schedule Wed. 2/13 @ OSU (BPI 80.2% chance to win) Sat. 2/16 vs Baylor (79.5%) off until Sat. 2/23 vs Kansas (68.8%) Wed. 2/27 vs OSU (93.6%) Sat. 3/2 @ TCU (55.6%) Monday ¾ vs UT (75.7%) Sat. 3/9 @ ISU (33.1%) - only game below 50%
Big 12 standings KSU (8-2); Kansas (8-4); Iowa State (7-4); Texas Tech (7-4); Baylor (7-4); Texas (6-5); TCU (5-6); OU (3-9); OSU (2-8); WVU (2-9)
Big 12 Outlook article on STP from Kyle BPI rankings: Tech, Iowa State, Kansas, Texas, Baylor, KSU, TCU, OU, WVU, OSU % chance to win B12: KSU 48; Tech 36; Kansas 30; ISU 29 RACE TO 13 CONFERENCE WINS
Baseball Keith and Spencer went to Baseball Tailgate dinner on 2/8 Opening weekend this week vs Oregon Four game series; Friday-Monday Weather may affect number of games or scheduling
Questions Going Yard It’s time for your pre-e app What We Learned Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour won four Grammys Best Country Album Album of the Year Best Country Song (“Space Cowboy”) Best Country Solo Performance (“Butterflies”)
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Intro Super Bowl New smoker - results Baseball Opening weekend next week vs Oregon Dinger Derby launched Football Signing day this week New commitments Basketball @ KU - 79-63Kansas was hot from the start KU 45.8% FG; 43.4% 3PT (13-30); TTU 34.4% FG; 21.4% 3PT (6-28); 59.1% FT (13-22) had missed 6 straight at one point Owens looked lost on defense much of the night; finished with a double-double though - 12 points, 10 boards Had 4 players score in double figures: Moretti, Owens, Mooney and Culver West Virginia
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Intro Who you got in the “Big Game”? Currently, the Pats are favored at -2.5. https://www.oddsshark.com/super-bowl/futures
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Basketball 2-0 week; home vs Arkansas & TCU Dropped to #16 in rankings Arkansas 67-64 vs Arkansas 21 total turnovers Moretti 21 pts Culver 15 pts, 4 TO Mooney 12 pts; 5 TO Odiase 2 pts; 4 TO
TCU Crowd/atmosphere on ESPN/Big Monday 7 total turnovers vs TCU 84-65 over TCU Mooney 18 pts; 1 reb; 5 ast; 1 TO Culver 18 pts; 7 reb; 4 ast; 1 TO Owens 17 pts; 6 reb; 1 ast Moretti 11 pts; 2 reb; 7 ast
54% FG (48 1H; 62 2H); 43% 3PT; 78% FT Tech scored 23 points off of TCU’s 13 turnovers - scored after nearly every TO THIS 3 PLAY SEQUENCE: https://twitter.com/i/status/1090098926508625920 TCU MBB Twitter account throwing stupid shade: https://twitter.com/TCUBasketball/status/1088484999391776768
Before Arkansas Game - ESPN broadcast noted TTU Turnovers at ¼ of all possessions in Big 12 play; TTU ranking 238th in turnovers Upcoming schedule Sat. 2/2 @ Kansas Mon. 2/4 vs WVU Sat 2/9 @ OU Wed 2/13 @ OSU Sat 2/16 vs Baylor
New Russian commit from Monday (1/28) Already on campus; will be eligible 2019-2020
Track Hosted big meet this past weekend Men’s team ranked #1; women’s team ranked #18 Baseball Arkansas guys are available Dinger Derby debut episode is Thursday (1/31) Football Mahomes in the Pro Bowl USC Hiring Harrell Signing Day is next week Questions What we learned Bogus thread count nonsense - Stuff You Should Know Podcast Fence Staining Estimates are expensive Finished Lonesome Dove book series - now what do I do with my life?
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Intro The Influencer Has Logged On Official food of Texas poll results If you could instantly change one of these NFL rules, which would it be:
Challenge and video review of pass interference Overtime rules to allow both teams to have possession
Baseball Baseball America ranked Tech #8 in preseason poll D1 Baseball Preseason All-American team Josh Jung, 1st team; Gabe Holt, 3rd team
Football Super Bowl set Mahomes in the Pro Bowl Cowboys promoting Kellen Moore from QB coach to Offensive coordinator? Basketball 0-3 week; home vs ISU, road at Baylor Dropped to #14 in rankings At Kansas State Dean Wade back; Really hot right now
Upcoming schedule Sat. 1/26 vs Arkansas Mon. 1/28 vs TCU Sat. 2/2 @ Kansas
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We welcome Keith Patrick on this week's podcast to preview a little baseball and announce a special project he's been working on for all of you. Tech baseball has 3 preseason All-Americans, plus one of the best incoming recruiting classes in the country. We can't wait for the first pitch on February 15. The football team had a couple of midterm enrollees make it to campus from this most recent signing period, Trevor Roberson and Simon Gonzalez. Getting Gonzalez on campus early will surely pay dividends with how much David Yost utilizes the tightend position. We also preview the upcoming post on StakingThePlains about what the Keith Patterson defense will look like, some terminology, and where some of the current players might project in this new scheme. Chris Beard is such a perfect cultural fit in West Texas and at Texas Tech that it almost doesn't make sense for him to entertain offers anywhere else. He is also destroying it on social media lately with his Fireside Chats. We talk about the upcoming game versus the Iowa State Cyclones and the road trip to Baylor. We answer all of your questions, as always.
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Plucky underdog Clemson Tigers outmatch the Alabama Crimson Tide to win the 2018 national championship. In somewhat stunning fashion, the Crimson Tide are handed their largest margin of defeat under Nick Saban. Former Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury was named the Arizona Cardinals (or is it Kardinals?) head coach today after spending nearly a month as the offensive coordinator for the USC Trojans. Josh Jung named was named to a preseason All-America list as the baseball season is closing in. We're sure this isn't the last for Jung and the Red Raider baseball team. The men's basketball team takes down the Kansas State Wildcats and Oklahoma Sooners at home and move to 14-1, 3-0 on the season. We are recording during the second half of the game and get some instant reaction in the middle of the episode as the Red Raiders close out the victory. Soo many Kliff Kingsbury questions.
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We're nearing the end of the first full year of the 23 Personnel Podcast and it's been a ride! We recently picked up some new equipment to help the podcast continue to grow, provide a high quality podcast, and to be able to more easily bring on guests in the future. Texas Tech men's basketball team takes down the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown for the first time since WVU joined the conference. We have some instant reaction. The women's basketball team is off to a hot start as they've already surpassed the win total for 2017 before starting conference play. They also recently picked up a 5* transfer from UCONN in Lexi Gordon, who should be a big time addition when she becomes eligible after sitting out. The men's basketball team returns home to face Kansas State and will host OU on the night we record again. The football season is nearing an end with one final college game left, the national championship between Alabama and Clemson. We discuss our thoughts on the latest bowl games, the playoffs, and why we're ready for the spring sports season to pick up. Finally, "Kiss Sexbury" is trying to be made a thing as Kliff Kingsbury is reportedly interviewing for a couple of NFL jobs, including the head coaching position for the New York Jets. And no, none of that is a joke.
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McDonald is back, mostly, after missing last week with a cough. Spencer still stands by what he said about LaBarre's comments two weeks ago. We wrap up our Christmas vacations and discuss some odd present giving from Spencer's mom. Texas Tech couldn't get past Duke last week in Madison Square Garden, even though Jarrett Culver led all scorers with 25 points and Zion Williamson fouled out. One more nonconference game before Big 12 play starts on Wednesday, 1/2 on the road. Texas Tech signed 11 commits to during the early signing period and are in good shape to land the previously committed recruits. 2017 Freshman All-American Nevada WR McLane Mannix announced his transfer to Texas Tech.
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LaBarre joins the episode this week to defend himself. For the record, we don't always insult or make fun of LaBarre - he just has awful takes. He also joins to help us break down the early signing period for the 2019 recruiting class and what Wells and Co. have been able to put/keep together in their first few weeks on the job. We also discover the possibility of Tech actually running a play from a 23 personnel package is significantly greater than with the previous coaching staff. The coaching staff contract and salary details were recently released. The men's basketball team is preparing to take on the no. 2 Duke Blue Devils in Madison Square Garden. We answer your questions and go into some detail about the things we learned this week.
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We start by ranking our top 5 all time movie vehicles. We probably should have been a little more specific with the word "vehicle," but we address that better in our Q&A segment. We give some recruiting updates with Wells and staff on the road as the early signing period is approaching. Antoine Wesley has declared for the NFL draft. Basketball season is in full swing. Two games are left on the schedule before heading to NYC to tip off against Duke. Tech is still undefeated and has won every matchup by double figures. We answer your questions and let you know what we've learned this week.
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We're starting to setting into the football off season with weekend activities not centered around Texas Tech football. We'll have basketball most Saturdays, but the end of football for Tech came far too soon this season. Texas Tech basketball is up to #13 in the AP poll while Erik Haslam has both the Tech offense and defense slated as #23. We discuss the distinct possibility that Tech will be in the top 10 going into the matchup with Duke in Madison Square Garden. Basketball discussion begins at 18:40. This past weekend, new head football coach Matt Wells had his introductory press conference and offensive coordinator David Yost as well as defensive coordinator Keith Patterson were made available to the media. We also heard from true freshman QB Alan Bowman for the first time. All parties involved left good impressions, with probably Patterson's leaving the most to be desired as he's not as much of a known quantity. We also try to address the recruiting issues with Tech losing verbal commits and why it doesn't indicate the sky is falling...yet. Football discussion starts at 36:15. We answer your questions, including which flavor of candy cane is best. Questions begin at 1:15:30.
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Kirby Hocutt and Texas Tech officially announce Matt Wells as the new head football coach. Michael and I discuss and give your our initial takes on the coaching search and hire. Much more content to come on StakingthePlains.com
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You'll have to consume this episode in pieces as we laid it all out there and didn't really concern ourselves with a time limit. Sunday morning, November 25, Kliff Kingsbury is officially relieved of his coaching duties at Texas Tech. It was as amicable a firing and parting ways as possible. Much love and luck to Kingsbury to wherever he lands. The basketball team is off to Miami on Monday to face Memphis. They are currently ranked in all major polls in the top 20, and currently leading the country in some new fangled metric called the NCAA NET. But everyone has all of their attention on football and the search for the next head coaching candidate. We discuss each and every coaching candidate we've heard mentioned with a connection to the open position at Tech. Most of these are just rumors and nothing is in stone or writing yet. Smoke is that Tech and Hocutt will be nearing a decision before we record again next week. Hang on as we ride this thing together.
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After Texas Tech loses to Baylor to fall to 5-7, we are left wondering one thing: where do we go from here?
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We're joined this week by 23 Personnel Podcast insider, Preston. We're gearing up for the Thanksgiving holiday and discuss favorite foods. We touch on the basketball schedule, including a home game this weekend against Northern Colorado. The Texas Tech football team is wrapping up their final preparations for game no. 12 this week against the Baylor Bears. Both teams are coming into the game at 5-6, meaning the winner is headed off to a bowl game and the loser's season is done. We also discuss Kingsbury's propensity to take a knee and what an awful idea it is if you're not winning the game. Of course, we address all of your comments and questions.
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It's time to blow this whole thing up. No coach is safe. The Kliff Kingsbury era should absolutely come to an end. You fall to 5-6, 3-5 on the season after losing an disgusting game in Manhattan. It doesn't even matter what happens next weekend against Baylor at this point.
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We're in that glorious part of the year where we have multiple sports to talk about, not to mention Thanksgiving being right around the corner. For those of you that listen to music on Spotify, you can now find the podcast there so you don't have to leave your preferred platform to listen to us ramble. The men's basketball team is now 3-0 after defeating Mississippi Valley State and Southeastern Louisiana. They will take on USC in tournament play next week, plus one of Missouri State and Nebraska. Before we get into the KSU preview, we touch on whether Duffey is a product of his talents or Kingsbury's system. We also note that Antoine Wesley will likely finish this season with the second best record for receiving yards in a single season at Texas Tech, behind only Michael Crabtree's 2007 season. This is also when we have a drop in the audio from the batteries going out on the recorder, so you'll just have to imagine we had a great discussion off the air. Grant Thome from the EMAWdio Podcast joins us to preview the game this weekend against the Kansas State Wildcats. Thanks for joining the show, Grant. If you want to hear his interview with Seth, check out his podcast on Soundcloud and on GoPowerCat.com. Then we answer and react to all of your questions and comments this week. This section starts around minute 47, so if you're not down to clown with our questions and Thanksgiving food hot takes, this is where you can check out.
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Commiserate with us. Jett Duffey gets the start and puts up a combined 524 yards but you get Crabtreed with Texas scoring the game-winning touchdown with just seconds left in the game. You fought back from being down by 17 points at two different times late in this game, but couldn't summit the mountain and defeat the Longhorns. You fall to 5-5 and 3-4 on the season. Your 2018 home football season is over and you continue the streak of not beating a conference foe not named Kansas at home, now for 3 straight seasons. In fact, in Kingsbury's 6 years, you have only won 7 Big 12 home games (3 of those being against the Jayhawks).
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This week, McDonald thought he was better than us and left us to go to Georgia for some unknown reason. LaBarre fills in and besides struggling to come up with an intro topic and answer the question "What did we learn," he fared admirably. In fact, he brought so much sports knowledge, we didn't even need a food intro topic. First, we discuss how fall baseball is going as we're in the middle of the Red & Black series. Somehow, Josh Jung is getting better. This team may be loaded on offense this season and could be really fun to watch. There are a TON of new names to familiarize yourself with before February. The Tech basketball season tipped off tonight and absolutely laid waste to UIW 87-37 behind a 48-7 second half. Mooney is still coming into himself as an offensive threat, although he scored 12 points tonight. Tariq Owens flexed his defensive muscles and led the team with 6 blocks, 3 in one possession. Next game will be Friday against Mississippi Valley State. We preview the Longhorns and discuss how the stats are in agreement this week that Tech is probably the better team. We both think the game will be a close one, a little lower scoring, but LaBarre sees Texas getting the advantage over Duffey behind center.
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The Red Raiders fall at home to no. 7 Oklahoma Sooners 51-46. Alan Bowman sustains a reinjury to his partially collapsed lung in the fist half and Duffey is unable to lead the team to a victory. You fall to 5-4 (3-3) on the season with the Longhorns coming to Lubbock next weekend.
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The restaurant serving Lubbock's best fried cheese closed this weekend, but it wasn't because we weren't patrons. Also, for those lost in the football season, the basketball season tips off this week with a charity exhibition game, and the baseball team starts their annual Red-Black series as well. Michael is completely dominated in fantasy this week, but somehow still leads the season point totals. We're joined for the Sooner preview portion of the episode by Jay from @RedDirtSport. If you're looking at the stat comparisons for this game, we tell you why those might be misleading. We answer every single one of your questions, the main reason our show was long this week. We wrap up the episode by hearing Michael lament about Hulu not letting him fast forward through a sporting event that is no longer live. He also rejoiced in what he's hoping was his last mowing of the season. He also tells us of yet another example of Christmas invading other holiday's time.
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Fair warning: the language in the first few minutes of the episode is not suitable for children. I'm sorry, it gets better, but it was about as explicit as it gets for the first few minutes. I'm not sure where you go from here, besides talk some solace in that when your defense wasn't called for mind-numbingly stupid drive-sustaining penalties, they were pretty good today. Special teams was pretty good outside of DeQuan Bowman letting a kickoff bounce. Bowman wasn't accurate. Your offensive line couldn't pass protect or run block. I'm not even sure Kevin Johns made the trip to Ames. You barely averaged more than a yard per carry. Your QB couldn't hit wide open receivers. Your open receivers couldn't make the routine catches when the ball got to them. The officials were what they were.
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Spencer challenges the listeners to download this week's episodes a total of 1,500 times or more in order to make him shave his beard. Michael made his broadcast radio debut this week on the Rob Breaux show and plugged STP and the podcast very well. Rob's show may even ask him to come back on the show. Michael torches Spencer in fantasy again this week behind a strong performance by KaVontae Turpin, who was just removed from the TCU football team for some really despicable actions, if they turn out to be true. We are not joined by an Iowa State expert to preview the Cyclones, but we do have stats and we dive deep into the stats to justify our stances on how this game will play out this week. Interestingly, the line for this game continues to move and at the time of recording, had moved all the way down to ISU -3.5. We answer your questions and Spencer revels in the lawn domination he is enjoying.
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We break down the Red Raiders victory over the Kansas Jayhawks 48-16. With the win, Texas Tech moves to 5-2 on the season and 3-1 in Big 12 conference play. Alan Bowman makes his first start since leaving the game versus West Virginia and has himself a day. It was good to see him knock some rust off before heading up to Ames to face the Cyclones next week. The Red Raider defense continues to impress, despite giving up two second half touchdowns. The Jayhawks were held to 3 first half points and the final touchdown came with 11 seconds before the final whistle. We read and respond to all of your questions and reactions you sent in after the game.
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With this cold weather in Lubbock, we both made pots of chili and swap recipes for the good stuff. Ohio State defensive end Nick Bosa announced on Tuesday that he would forego the rest of this season to prepare for the NFL draft. This is probably the earliest we've seen a player do this in season and Michael and Spencer have very different takes on this. We start looking at the game this week versus Kansas and why this might be a little more tricky to navigate than in years past. We're joined on the KU preview by KU Director of Broadcasting and "Voice of the Jayhawks" Brian Hanni. Red Raider fans should be familiar with Hanni after he spent 4 years in Lubbock covering Texas Tech and being the play-by-play voice for the men's hoops and baseball teams. We wrap up with your questions about possible expansion targets, how we liked our chicken wings cooked, the stat that best indicates defensive improvement for Texas Tech, and what % we think Bowman plays this weekend.
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We break down the big win for the Red Raiders moments after the final whistle, as well as read and react to all of your reactions and questions. Unbelievable win for Tech as they leaned on the run game and defense to take down the Horned Frogs on the road 17-14.
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Quick turnaround this week as the game is on Thursday night. We cover things from tossing tortillas, to the new chairman of the Board of Regents, to if Alan Bowman can fly with the team. We also preview the TCU Horned Frogs. It appears both teams are down to backup QBs (or third stringers in Tech's case), but the situation isn't as dire as that might sound. We're picking a close, low-scoring game where turnovers may play a huge role in the outcome. Also, our fences are swollen shut after all the rain this past week.
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As we navigate Texas Tech's bye week, we concern ourselves with why Michael ditched me for the post game recording this past weekend, QB injuries, updating our win-loss predictions for this season, and of course your many great questions.
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Today was rough. Watching this game was draining, and not because you got blown out, but because you were just so bad in the first half and nearly made the miraculous comeback in the second; because you lost another starting QB; because you started off slow again; and because people are calling for Kingsbury to be fired and we defend him today. We hope things are OK with Alan Bowman, but everything I've heard (from extremely credible media sources) points elsewhere. We've got about 10 days until the next game and plenty of things to work and focus on to get ready for the trip to Ft Worth. Let's get right, get healthy, cut out the drops, the slow starts, and get this thing rolling.
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We have to settle on what kind of pie we would want more, the best filling with OK crust, or best crust with OK filling. Football news, including Vasher's likelihood of playing on Saturday and possible rotations. Ridiculous stat projections for a true freshman QB and how it puts The Greatest Bowman on an island all to himself. We're joined to preview the West Virginia Mountaineers by Jorden from the Country Roads Webcast. Our side of the preview will be available later this week. We got a ton of your questions this week, and they were all so good. You guys really are the best. Cord Cutters Corner has an ugly update as Michael is fighting with AT&T.
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Your Red Raiders came to play tonight. They defeat the favored Cowboys 41-17 in Stillwater behind an unbelievable defensive performance where OSU scored their final points of the game after only 5 minutes into the second quarter. Your defense pitched a 40-minute shutout, on the road, to a ranked team. Bowman was simply fantastic again. Not a record-setting performance, but you can't have those every week. He did throw his first two interceptions of the season, but otherwise was definition of cool, calm and collected. On to West Virginia
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We venture into the land of discussing fan etiquette and when it may or may not be acceptable to leave a football game. We're joined for the OSU preview by Brian of the Cowboy State Podcast to help breakdown this weekend's match up in Stillwater against the Pokes. You can hear my Texas Tech preview on their show here. We answer your questions about other frightening celebrity faces to use to intimidate opponents, whether we'd want to face 1 Mahomes of 11 Mayfields, and the health of safety Jah'Shawn Johnson.
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Another record-setting performance for Texas Tech, this time with individual honors for true freshman QB Alan Bowman setting the Big 12 single game passing yard record, and Antoine Wesley setting the school's single game receiving yards record. Tech moves to 2-1 as they prepare to travel to Stillwater to open conference play.
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One of the hottest topics out of the US Open was obviously what is an acceptable dipping sauce for chicken tendies. This is discussed in much depth. We wrap up Lamar one final time, go over injury updates, and try to wade through a possible (backup) quarterback controversy. We preview the week 3 opponents, the Houston Cougars, and why they refuse to wear their home uniforms to conform to Tech's "Celebrate Cotton" white out game. Thanks, Kendal Briles. We answer your questions and discuss how Michael's cord cutting is going when neighbors drive by his house.
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We have your instant reaction from the record-setting 77-0 Texas Tech victory over Lamar.
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Michael is somehow a college football fantasy savant and wiped the floor with Spencer's trash team this week. We hear about an injury update on McLane Carter. Not as bad as it could have been, not super great news though. We preview the Lamar Cardinals (for maybe 5 minutes). How wide of a margin of victory is enough to quiet the fans this week? You guys asked a ton of great questions and sent us a lot of great comments (keep doing that!) Cord Cutters Corner and What We Learned
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Texas Tech was beat soundly by the Ole Miss Rebels in Houston to start the 2018 season. The Red Raiders were outplayed in all three phases of the game. Starting QB McLane Carter is injured and carted off the field in the first quarter and replaced by true freshman Alan Bowman. The hyped defense wasn't anything to be excited about. They allowed a 200 yard rusher, the first for Ole Miss since 2010. The did force and recover one turnover. The offense was iffy, even under Carter before he went down. Penalties were down, but they were big, undisciplined - three targeting penalties. Several extended Ole Miss drives or ended Tech drives. Tech will host Lamar next weekend, so the offense and QB should get some time to develop some chemistry if Carter's injury is as serious as it looked. The defense will need to buckle down and the special teams...woof. It may be time to start adjusting 2018 W/L predictions
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We dive into the philosophy and definition of what is and isn't a kolache. Btw, the Czech know their way around a bakery. The case against DaLeon Ward is dismissed (news broke between recordings). Excellent coverage on stakingtheplains.com covering the 2018 season preview (not exactly what you're thinking). Week 1 preview of the Ole Miss Rebels.
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This week, we form our All Time Texas Tech football team from players only from the period when we began our Tech fandom until now. We learn about the probable starting QB. Slated first team RB DaLeon Ward was arrested and may be off the team soon. 8/22 UPDATE: case vs Ward has been dismissed. We draft our fantasy football team from the Big 12 only player pool. We look a little more into the abysmal redzone offense. We have our weekly update on Cord Cutter's Corner, as well as fan favorite Going Yard.
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Would Mike Leach still be the all-time leader for wins at Texas Tech if he had to schedule a true round robin schedule? Update betting odds on the starting QB. Michael updates us on how cutting the cord is going. What we learned this week.
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Details emerge surrounding the "retirement" of Texas Tech Chancellor Robert Duncan. It would appear Rick Perry, a known TAMU Aggie, meddled in the affairs of Texas Tech and somehow convinced 5 of the 9 Regents on the Board to vote to remove Duncan as Chancellor. It would appear the Aggies are still scared to face any competition in anything they do. Texas Tech signed contract extensions with several key coaches around the program, including Tim Tadlock. Tadlock's contract puts him in the upper realms of salaries for collegiate coaches, and continues to demonstrate the admin's faith and support of his program. Defensive back grad transfer John Bonney announces he is leaving the Texas Longhorns and will play his final season of eligibility of the Red Raiders. Games 7 - 12 of the 2018 football schedule are previewed and predicted, going Kansas through Baylor.
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We pilot our new recording setup in the 23 Personnel Podcast North HQ. With a little bit of an extended intro (emphasis on extended), we touch on the Reagor Dykes scandal, as well as the 2018-2019 Tech Basketball non conference schedule. Ole Miss preview and prediction - 24:42 Lamar preview and prediction - 37:36 Houston preview and prediction - 39:29 Oklahoma State preview and prediction - 46:10 West Virginia preview and prediction - 52:39 TCU preview and prediction - 1:02:32 Listener questions included hypotheticals on how many wins we would require before wanting to sign an extension with Kingsbury; updated betting odds on who the starting QB may be; Ed Oliver vs TTU OL, take 2; our signature fashion as head coaches; and who we might want to replace Kingsbury if/when it came to it.
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We discuss our last break from the show before we dive into the 2018 show and how great it was to get away from cell reception for a week. The Dave Campbell's Texas Football 2018 magazine/book was recently released and we discussed the Texas Tech preview. There is an interesting schedule prediction in terms of wins and losses that we disagree with. Lots of great content to carry us rabid college football fans to September 1. Some great listener questions, including what our expectations should be if the Big 12 is indeed down this year (and why Tech maybe should expect more), and the betting odds on the starting Texas Tech QB for game one versus Ole Miss. Michael is getting closer to cutting the cord with Suddenlink and moving into the "streaming-only" category as a media consumer. I'm probably not far behind. Lubbock has agreed to start letting businesses set up breweries/pubs and Michael is all about this move.
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In the mailbag this week, we're asked if Putin will interfere with the Big 12 race this season, and how OU is the face of Russian propaganda. We discuss what we're most excited and scared about for the 2018 football season. Finally, most teams do not deviate more than 2 games +/- in terms of W/L record from season to season and we're asked to project where we think Tech will land in that spectrum for 2018. Michael takes us through his inital steps of cutting the cord and moving to a full streaming service instead of cable. Lastly, we discuss Oklahoma State announcing that they will sell beer at all of their athletic events and whether we think Tech should follow suit, and how Lubbock will be getting a Cheesecake Factory in possibly the worst location.
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Christmas in July! We discuss our favorite Christmas movies and how Die Hard is definitely a Christmas movie. Tim Tadlock was named D1Baseball Coach of the Year. Gabe Holt received yet another honor for his 2018 campaign as he was selected to Baseball America's First Team Freshman All-American Team. Two more basketball players have signed professional contracts overseas. Chris Beard also was overseas to see Davide Moretti play for the Italian national team. Big 12 Media Days was this week and Texas Tech was represented by Dakota Allen, Travis Bruffy, JaDeion High and JahShawn Johnson. Tech had three players (all defensive) selected to the Preseason All Big 12 team and a certain Texas homer is butthurt about it. We also talk about the episode of the Comeback S2N podast where hosts Erik Burkhart and Johnny Manziel interview Kliff Kingsbury. Unfortunately, Gabe Rivera passed away and we talk about what a generational talent he was, even though none of us were able to see him play in person.
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After celebrating this country's Independence Day, we discuss all things 23 for this the 23rd episode of the 23 Personnel Podcast. The deadline for drafted baseball players to sign with their teams has come and gone and all but one player has signed with their team and will not return - Caleb Killian. Summer basketball is in full swing and Zhaire Smith is continuing to kill it. The Texas Tech basketball staff has been completed and they continue to add players to this year's recruiting class. We even talk about high level recruits and how we as fans are going to have to accept antics like announcement videos with these types of players. As we're nearing only 50 days until the 2019 football season kicks off, we talk about the surge of recruits Tech has been able to land lately, some NCAA rule changes (including transfers and redshirts), Big 12 Media Days, and additional bowls added to the 2020 season. We're starting to plan the fantasy, head-to-head draft and we'll likely host the draft "live" on the podcast. We received lots of great questions, including what Tech might do if Kingsbury were fired midseason, how we'd fare against MLS goalies, and why Canada doesn't have queso.
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As summer has officially started this week, we start off by discussing our favorite flavors of ice cream. We put a bow on the 2018 baseball season. The Red Raiders finished their season in Omaha with a record of 45-20. In my book, any baseball season that ends in Omaha is a good one. There is nothing to be disappointed about with how this season turned out and we have nothing but high expectations of this team moving forward. We also discuss the NBA Draft as Texas Tech had their first ever one and done player in Zhaire Smith. Keenan Evans and Zach Smith also landed on NBA summer teams. The 2018 football season predictions and projections season starts off with Bill Connelly's not-so-rosy outlook for the Red Raiders.
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In this week's mailbag, we answer whether or not Tech is a football school, or something else. 7:46 We build the Mt Rushmore of Tech athletics, which Spencer is terrible at. 15:54 Tadlock must be some kind of wizard as he balances recruiting high school and JUCO talent that could very well not end up in school because of the MLB draft. 24:51 Assuming Kingsbury is not retained after the 2018 season, who are our reasonable candidates to fill the head coaching role at Tech. 39:37
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McDonald rejoins the podcast and brings it with an interesting intro topic this week of what TV/movie world would we like to live in. Texas Tech general news and notes, including Women's Tennis recruiting class ranked no. 3 in the country, an excellent longform read on the corruption at Ole Miss, the coffee/caffeine nap to power through a full Saturday of college football, and Big 12 revenue - 13:18 Football offseason ranking articles have started and we look at two specifically, where the Tech linebackers rank in the conference and the strength of the non-conference schedule compared to the rest of the Big 12 - 33:07 Baseball is set to host another Super Regional this upcoming weekend - Tech's 3rd in 5 years. We preview the Duke Blue Devils and how we think Tech will fare. We also look into the draft and how it's picking this 2018 team apart - 46:36 Everybody's favorite segment: Going Yard - 1:13:34
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Texas Tech is gearing up to host a regional tournament against Louisville, Kent State, and New Mexico State. WIth Tech's position as the number one seed and limited starting pitching depth, we think they should probably pitch the series backwards and take advantage of playing the no. 4 seed. The basketball recruiting class should be finalized soon with three players left on the board with probably two spots left. Preston asks why Kingsbury can't seem to recruit well and we decide he just needs to win more to help that out. We actually answer listener questions in this episode, including why Tadlock started Sublette in the Big 12 tournament, what might be wrong with Davis Martin, and if we'll see that in the regional. McDonald asks how excited we are for Cavs v Warriors, round 4. Hint: not at all.
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Movement on the new Texas Tech Vet School going up in Amarillo and A&M shaking in their boots. Here are the articles we referenced in the recording: http://www.amarillo.com/news/local-news/2018-03-08/tamu-unveils-vet-education-plan-w t-texas-tech-continues-push-amarillohttp://www.amarillo.com/news/20180518/texas-tech-regents-give-nod-to-69m-agreement-with-amarillo-edc-on-vet-school/1 Proper bread product to put around sausages for sausage wraps. Pitching rotation for conference tournament. Which WR and RBs have the most catches for Tech in 2018. Chris Beard is a super human, but does he wear a cape? Is micorwaving hotdogs acceptable? Send us your recommendations for smokers (budget friendly).
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The unwritten rules in baseball are discussed after watching Kody Clemens break them in a win over TCU this past weekend. Here are our top 10: Don’t talk to a pitcher about a no-hitter in progress Don’t steal or bunt when game is out of hand (4+ runs either way) Don’t “pimp” (admire) a homerun (look at, bat flip, celebrate around bases, etc.) Don’t show up the umpire or teammates Don’t stare down a batter after a strikeout Don’t step on the pitcher’s mound Don’t bunt to break up a no hitter Don't run up the score in a blowout Don’t slide hard into second with your cleats up (DO) Hit batters in retribution Do you like the unwritten rules? Did we miss some? Tell us! Texas Tech held their spring commencement ceremonies this past weekend and there were 41 Red Raider athletes graduating. Congrats! The baseball team will be up in Bricktown for the Big 12 Baseball Tournament this week and we dicsuss the Red Raiders' pitching rotation and bracket matchups. This week in Going Yard we talk about pulling weeds and breaking out the mower for the first time.
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We received a lot of great questions! This week's questions Jonathan @Jon1443What kind of bear is best?Truett @TrentTrevorTreyYou have to pick one and the other ceases to exist. Chocolate or cheese? Redraiderresetman84 @redraiderreset1Favorite place in Lubbock to eat? And do you guys see tech making it back to the cws this year? Brian DonCarlos @B_DonCarlosWhat are the best and worst buildings on Tech's campusKyle Lang @sports_kylelangWould you take a graduate transfer at QB (i.e. Joe Burrow) over the current QBs on the roster. Would Tech be in the running for Burrows bc our special teams coach came from Ohio State and our OC (Kevin Johns) has a connection to Ohio State's OC (Kevin Wilson). Dustin McNabb @IamDMcNabbHow much wood could Peter Piper Pick if he were selling seashells by the seashore? What we learned this week The vote for/against abandoning the coliseum and auditorium was May 5th. 52/48 for Prop A (abandonment) (passed by 526 votes, with 7,757 FOR and 7,231 AGAINST) Got my first water bill
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After returning from a trip to the Pacific Northwest, Spencer and Michael compile a list of things that make Texans unique and special. We determined that you need to at least check off 10 items on the list of 15: Knows pecan is the state tree Like pecan pie Knows mockingbirds are the state birds Hates mockingbirds Owns a pickup Has visited the Alamo Unhealthy obsession with queso Owns/flies “Come and Take It” flag Primarily eats ranch dressing on salads and as a dip Knows to wave on FM roads and smaller Opens doors All carbonated beverages are called “cokes” Texas chili does not have beans Love of TexMex and brisket Frito Pie, bean dip, Big Red Let us know what items you check off and what we may have missed. The baseball team is unfortunately in the midst of a crippling slump that may see the season end much too soon if the momentum isn't turned. The talent is there for a run in Omaha, but the team will need to be much more consistent to even make it out of the regional stage. Win totals were released for the Big 12 this week and we look at where Tech was slated with a total of 5.5. Michael and Spencer both took the under as we go through the schedule game by game. We also quickly go over the rest of the Big 12. How in the world is Kansas and Baylor supposed to combine for a total of 8 wins?
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We start this week's mailbag with building the best ever Tech offense from players in Tech history (1 QB, 1 RB, 5 WR). We discuss which team had better position groups: 2017 or 2018. We talk about how the defense might fare without a key player or two. And finally, we discuss the hypothetical of giving up all other sports if it were to guarantee a national championship.
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We rank our top three school cafeteria foods from elementary school. Michael had much more fond memories of cafeteria food growing growing up than Spencer did. We both listed the weird shapes of pizza we were served, but our other items were much different. After rewatching the Spring Football Game, Spencer noticed that the offensive line typically was pulling a lineman. We don't remember Tech doing this as often prior to this season, so this may be something new to watch for this season as Tech may be more heavily relying on the run game. Baseball won the series against OU and move up into second place in the conference. WIth series still remaining on the road against a depleted TCU team, home vs Texas, and on the road in Stillwater, Tech has their work cut out for them if they have plans on three-peating as Big 12 conference champs.
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Seth hung around for the mailbag edition of this week's episode to answer some tough questions about the QB race, football position groups, best situation for Zhaire Smith, Chris Beard possibly putting pressure on Kingsbury to succeed and if Tech in '15/'16 would have had a bigger impact with Michael Crabtree on that team or if DeAndre Washington was on the '08 team. Who is the favorite in the QB race heading into the fall? Is there a chance we'll be relying on our amazing defense to carry the football team through the fall to a bowl game? Does the success that Beard has had with MBB put even more pressure on KK to produce this year or else? What position group got you most excited about their future? Which #NBA team/roster is best fit for Zhaire Smith? Bigger impact: sophomore Crabtree on Mahomes '15 squad or senior DeAndre Washington on Harrell '08 squad? what's a college stadium/game that's on your bucket list to see?
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Seth C of StakingthePlains.com joins us to discuss Zhaire Smith announcing that he will be signing with an agent and officially declare for the NBA draft. We wish him nothing but success as he pursues dreams of playing in the Association. The baseball team took full advantage of poor teams and pitching these past four games as they plated 76 runs. Josh Jung, Grant Little, Cody Farhat, Michael Davis, Cameron Warren and Zach Rheams all mashed homeruns this weekend. Grant Little tied the school record for RBIs in a single game at 9, while Brian Klein tied the school record for runs scored. Josh Jung hit for the Red Raiders' first cycle since 2008 against New Mexico on Tuesday. Spring football came to an end with the spring game this past weekend. Seth, Michael, LaBarre and Spencer watched the game together and we discussed the positions we were most impressed and excited for. We think Tech will rely more on the defense and the run game this season rather than the QB and receivers. The Big 12 might not have the stellar QB play, which will help Tech break in a new QB and receiving core.
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We don't know why LaBarre's food takes are such trash, but we talk about our favorite food condiments and how his are disgusting. It's easily hot sauce (not salsa) and homemade ranch. Brian asks what our favorite cooking tools are and we decided meat thermometers (Michael's is wireless - he boujy) and special pans. New Market Streets are opening with bars (beer, wine and chicken wings) and if we would consider moving to be closer to one - yes. What new restaurants are on our list and how we might need to make a visit to Durango's. There is an upcoming vote on the building formerly known as the City Bank Coliseum and how we both think Lubbock should drop and and Tech should build something, anything, in its place. Preferably something that doesn't lose $600,000 a year. And sports questions including if HCKK will wear sunglasses and a hat to his next indoor interview, how we can bring Gingery back for his senior season, how likely Zhaire is to leave Tech, and how the Tech baseball team might be able to three-peat as Big 12 champions (unlikely).
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Michael is rejoining the kids this week as he purchased his first gaming console in a decade. Every week it feels like we say we're going to wrap up the basketball season, but news comes out every week that needs to be discussed. This week, the Chris Ogden to UTA deal was finalized and he was officially hired to lead their basketball program. We wish Coach Ogden the very best of luck. Zhaire Smith is still being projected to go in the first round of the NBA draft and we talk about how he's likely gone. Recruiting never stops for Beard and his staff as they picked up a commitment from one of the best graduate transfers out there in Tariq Owens. Owens is a very versatile big man and we think he'll fit right in with what Beard is trying to build at Tech. The baseball team wraps up their 4-game road trip in Dallas against DBU. The umpires unfortunately take over the game and gift DBU two runs to help them take the lead. Tensions boiled over and Tim Tadlock is ejected, as well as Cody Masters. Over the weekend, it appears Kansas was unwilling to move the games at all to try to take advantage of Tech's record of struggling to play in cold and wet conditions. They're home this weekend against Kansas State and honestly should be expecting to sweep Purple Kansas. The football team is wrapping up spring practice this weekend with their final open practice/scrimmage, this time in Lubbock under the lights. Readers of Staking the Plains and listeners to the podcast will be meeting up in section 3, row 25ish to take in the spring game and discuss what our beloved Red Raider football team is doing on the field. If you know of any or are hosting a tailgate, be sure to let everyone know where you'll be so we can party together. A special mailbag episode will drop separately, so enjoy the "short" episode.
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Hunter Cooke of DieHards.com joins for a lengthy conversation that moves from special occasion meals, to wrapping up the basketball season, football questions, baseball concerns, and fast food limited time offers.
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Is drinking unsweet tea the most unTexan thing you can do? Or is it liking Pepsi? What about NOT hating on New Mexico? Unfortnately, the basketball season ended with the Red Raiders being elimated in the Elite Eight matchup versus Villanova. Both Spencer and Michael think Nova is the best team left and will likely win the national championship. Keenan Evans reveals he actually broke his toe in the game against Baylor and was playing through the pain. Is Keenan Evans the best basketball player of all-time for Texas Tech? The answer is more difficult than you would think. The football team had an open practice/scrimmage in Midland this past Saturday, but the news didn't end there. Four players were arrested Sunday morning after an incident at Bash Riprocks. The players are still on the team but have been suspended indeifnitely. This certainly makes the battle for the starting QB position interesting, especially the longer the suspension is to last. The baseball team had a bounce back weekend as they hosted Northeastern and swept them in four games. The offense scored nearly 60 runs on the #8 RPI team. Conference play resumes this weekend in Lubbock as West Virginia comes to town. By the end of the weekend, the baseball season will be halfway over. We have a couple of listener questions, like whether we would put chips on sandwiches and if we're team breakfast burrito or team breakfast taco.
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Chris Beard defeats Purdue...AGAIN. Beard was the coach at Arkansas-Little Rock when they knocked out the Boilermakers in a 12-over-5 upset. Texas Tech advances to the Elite Eight for the first time in school history. Tech takes down Purdue 78-65 in pretty convincing fashion. Tech got to a 5-point halftime lead and never let up. The Red Raiders closed the first half on a 10-0 run and kept the pressure on Purdue the entire second half. Justin Gray was HUGE in this game, scoring 12 points and grabbing 7 boards. Keenan Evans played a solid game, scored a little under his season average but 3 other Red Raiders scored in double figures around him. Such an impressive win all the way around. These guys are making history, getting hot and riding momentum in the right direction at the right time. Texas Tech is set to take on Villanova on Sunday at 1:20 p.m. for a shot to advance to the Final Four in San Antonio.
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A new barbecue place opened recently in the 806 and we grabbed lunch there to give it a try. Green chiles were everywhere, meat was decent. Our verdict was that it was OK but there are some other pretty fine joints in town to get the 'cue. There was also some discussion on what needs sauce and what doesn't and who makes the best sauces (Whataburger, obviously). Texas Tech opened the NCAA tournament with wins over Stephen F Austin and Florida. Both games saw exciting plays from guards Keenan Evans and Zhaire Smith (who might be leaving after this season). Smith flying through the air for 360 dunks and alley oops are just things of beauty. Tech is getting ready to face Purdue in Boston in the Sweet Sixteen. The Boilermakers may be without their senior big man, Isaac Haas. He broke his elbow in the first round against CSU Fullerton and nearly gave it a go in the round of 32 game. His brace was disallowed by the NCAA and it's unlikely he will play again this season. Good news for Purdue is they have another big man backing up Haas, Matt Haarms. The baseball team wrapped up a vicious road trip in Waco to open Big 12 play and dropped the series to the Bears. The Red Raiders went 3-5 over the 8-game trip and look to bounce back against Northeastern this weekend. Spring football is still chugging along with an interesting battle at quarterback. Jett Duffey needs more reps and McLane Carter needs to cut down on his turnovers. Inside receiver and defensive back has great depth, but lots of unknown guys filling out the roster there. Defensive tackle is as deep as it's ever been. We're really looking forward to getting to watch a spring practice in person. Finally, we learned this week that Spencer is not much for camping for too long and that the OU band will play Boomer Sooner if it's the last thing they ever do.
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