23 Personnel

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.

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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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