23 Personnel

23 Personnel is a Texas Tech sports show that treats the Red Raiders calendar as one long, overlapping conversation. Spencer and Michael move quickly, usually with one eye on the main topic and another on whatever score is happening somewhere else. The center of gravity is college sports, especially Texas Tech men’s and women’s basketball, but the show does not stay fenced in. Football previews, softball starts, baseball weekends, Big 12 context, tournament brackets, and national oddities all get pulled into the same running thread. It is casual. It is also specific enough to reward fans who care about how a game actually turned. A rough basketball loss is not reduced to vibes; the conversation gets into projections, injuries, droughts, turnovers, free throws, late-game runs, rankings, and whether the manner of the loss feels worse than the loss itself. When Texas Tech’s women give up a 21-0 Kansas State run, the show sits in the details. When JT Toppin goes down, it tracks the shift in expectations and what life after the injury might look like. When softball is rolling, the numbers matter: home runs, slugging, stolen bases, run differential, shortened games, and the grind before Big 12 play. Baseball gets the same treatment, even when the update is mostly pain after a difficult opening weekend. The rhythm is loose enough for detours. U.S. curling, Spurs games, St. Patrick’s Day meals, phone upgrades, and jokes about bus trips to Stillwater can all pass through before the show snaps back to Texas Tech. That makes it feel less like a formal recap desk and more like a standing conversation among people who have watched too much and still want to talk. Special episodes widen the lens, such as Trevor from Saturday’s Warrior joining for a BYU preview. The show works best when a Red Raiders fan wants instant reaction, argued-out context, and a little exhausted humor after the final buzzer. It does not pretend every take is final. It circles, corrects, remembers another score, and keeps going. That restless pace is the point.