23 Personnel

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...

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 sig...

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 Tr...

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 conf...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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...

After Texas Tech loses to Baylor to fall to 5-7, we are left wondering one thing: where do we go from here? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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-...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-inf...

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 L...

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...

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...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...

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 total...

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...

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 Turpi...

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 impre...

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 vers...

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.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.