Vanderbilt vs Texas Is Bigger Than You Think 👀 | SEC Breakdown + X-Factors

Originally recorded on February 11th, 2026 | In this episode of the Mid-Majors Podcast, hosts Tacarra and Courtney dive into the current state of SEC basketball, focusing on the upcoming game between Vanderbilt and Texas. They discuss the importance of standings and byes in the conference, analyze key players and matchups, and explore strategies for both teams. The conversation also touches on the significance of role players and X-factors in determining the outcome of games, as well as the challenges players face in maintaining high performance throughout the season. The hosts wrap up with thoughts on future games and the excitement surrounding March Madness.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to the Mid-Majors Podcast
01:02 Game Previews and Importance of Standings
02:57 Vanderbilt vs. Texas: Game Analysis
05:58 Key Players and Matchups
08:40 Scouting Reports and Strategies
10:54 Role Players and X-Factors
14:02 Final Thoughts and Predictions
14:43 Understanding the X Factor in Sports
19:48 Analyzing Team Dynamics and Player Roles
23:39 The Challenge of Containing Star Players
26:51 Recognizing Exceptional Talent in Women's Basketball
29:11 Balancing Personal Lives and Sports Commentary

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to the Mid Majors podcast where the real hoop talk happens unfiltered and unapologetic. We in here.

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Hey guys.

SPEAKER_00 0:09

We in here. Got some games to talk about today. Right now, UConn is playing Creighton. It's a little cute right now, but I'm sure it'll get ugly here pretty soon. Um Right now it's second quarter to 25-16. The game is fairly close, but you know, sometimes it ends that way with it starts that way with UConn and they just kind of just run on off with it. Um Washington and Iowa is about to come on, but I am going to definitely check out who is it tonight who plays that I said I wanted to watch?

SPEAKER_01 0:43

UCLA and Michigan State.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

And Michigan State. I'm definitely going to check that out. Um so I'm excited about watching that one here pretty soon. So I'm I'm locked in for that. But that's not why we're here today. We're here to talk about Thursday. We only gonna talk about one game. We're gonna talk about Vandy and we're gonna talk about Texas. What do we think? Okay, so first of all, I was looking at the standings and stuff today. Like being in that top, was it top five, four seed for um for SEC, it really matters because you get that double buy. Yes. It's so crazy because it's like until we started doing this, like I never looked at those things like as heavy as I did, because it was just kind of like, oh, whatever, girl. When the game came on, who played? But now like that I'm working doing this, I'm kind of like, oh, into it. So that's important because man, you got a long road if you ain't got no bye, man. Okay. Two by the time, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

They end up the season, people are tired, injured, all types of things. So very, very important.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

The comp man, there's no better feeling. Let's we we like I said we got a few weeks before we get there, but there's no better feeling than a conference tournament, man. Like, that's a different feeling. Like, I I feel it right now, just talking about it. Yeah, like that's a different feeling. It's like you got a whole new level of charge, all that. But like I said, we'll get to that. But Vandy and Texas. TCU and Baylor plays tomorrow. I will catch that one too as well. But that's a game that I think I'm gonna have to watch more. Watch first, then talk about.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Okay. I'm going to check out TCU. I think they play uh Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

Oh, dope.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

On the 25th. Oh, you going? Yeah, I'm gonna go. So you're reporting live? I got I gotta see my girl Olivia in person. Period. I know that's gonna work. I gotta see that in person.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

Gotta see that work. Gotta see that work.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

I got to.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Gotta see it. Um, Texas Vandy, who you got? Oh, man. This is gonna be a good game.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Where are they playing at?

SPEAKER_00 2:56

They in Nashville. They in Asheville. Vandy, I it's so crazy because ever since I went to that game with Vandy LSU, I'm on their email list.

unknown 3:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

So they emailing me talking about$4 tickets, begging people to come. That's free. Four dollar tickets, man. But you know, I was tight. My LSU, when I went to LSU, I mean mine was free, but they was getting off, my my mama went to the game too. They was getting off$45 for them games, which I'm I'm all with it. I support it, but I'm like, at the end of the day, like a college game, like them games was be$10. When I went to uh when I went to Notre Dame and um Georgia Tech, yeah, you know what I'm saying?$17. Like, you know what I'm saying? I was like, dang, they getting this$65. My mom was finna pay$85. I was like, you tripping. But anyway. It probably goes towards the NIL bucket or something. It go to something, child. It go to something. Some of it was resale, but the website Bandy was trying to get over, which I I get it. I'm I'm all for it. I'm all for it. At the end of the day, like it ain't as crazy expensive, but it was just the point of where we're at now where it's more. Um who am I going with? It's a tough one. Because like I said, any given night. The question is this what Texas team are we going to get? Exactly, man. I'm gonna tell you how it should go. Yeah. I'm gonna tell you what my my mind, my thought process would be, right? So I'm Madison Booker. I'm the reigning SEC player of the year. We got Michaela Blakes. I'm on the road against Michaela Blakes, and it's this top leading scorer in the nation now. You know, she just took that title away from Audie. This, they talking about, you know, she's the SEC player of the year now. We talking about it. I don't know if everybody else is, people should be. They talking about her being, we talking about first team all-American ballots now at this point. I'm coming in, I'm getting a win.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Facts.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

And I'm coming in and I'm I'm I'm busting some ass if I'm Madison Booker.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

So you're going with. I'm gonna say this. See, you know, you know, for me, I always gonna give a long-winded answer because it's like it ain't never like straight up for me.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

No, because I agree with this game. It's kind of it's hard.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

So I'ma I'm gonna tell you who I'm going with.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

I'm gonna go with the Longhorns, and I'm gonna tell you why.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Rory's gonna heat up Lil' Aubrey.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

That's exactly what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

I think Rory's gonna heat her up, but I don't know. She's coming off a 30. Since it's feeling good.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

They just like coined them. Batman and Robin. I mean, they just got a name. Got a new title? They got a new title and everything. I agree with you. That's exactly what I was gonna say. I was gonna, I'm gonna say, after the game they just played, I think coaching Vic got in their ass, and I'm sure told them, y'all play like this on Thursday. Y'all don't get y'all ass whooped.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

Facts.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

You get what I'm saying? Um, so I think Madison will be ready to play. She definitely, to me, sometimes is a player that kind of like plays to the level of her competition. Um so in this game, I feel like she will show up in the way that we think she is. And I think Rory is she's gonna be on Galvin like white on Rice. But it's gonna be a great game. It's gonna be a great game. I still think Galvin's gonna have a good game. Um, but I do stand by like pressuring her. Remember, I said that last game when they played South Carolina. I think that pressure um defensive-wise uh speeds them up, but also speeds Galvin up, and she's such an instrumental part of that team and finding like the girl she needs to find. So I think I'm gonna roll with Texas. And on ESPN, they have Texas winning matchup predicted. By like 78%. I know 79.4% for Texas and 20.6 for Vandy.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

So if I'm Bandy, the disrespect.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

I mean, yeah. I mean 20% is crazy.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

They thinking they gonna beat us, they got an 80% chance of winning on our home floor when we got the best player in the conference, arguably.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

We coming off two 30-point games, two thirty two players with 30 points. The disrespect. I think it's gonna be a tough game. Ooh. Excuse me, child. I think that Shay Raf Ralph, y'all, y'all, I'm y'all be coming for me. I'm country.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

I think very country.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Very, very country.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

It's like y'all misspell it. Maybe it's country, it's an accent. Um a thick one at that. Uh I think that Shay is gonna have some stuff up her sleeve. I think we could I think we're gonna see a really well-coached game. I think we have an opportunity to see really good coaching.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

I think so too.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

I think so too. I'ma say, if I I think that Vandy's going to be very prepared, I think that they just gotta go out and do it. Um let me ask you a question. What would be your scouting report on Madison Booker? Or just Texas?

SPEAKER_01 8:54

That's what I I really that's what I was thinking about, really. Yeah. Um What would be my scouting report on Texas?

SPEAKER_00 9:09

That's a tough question. I should have told you this one before.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

No, it's okay. Sorry, sorry. I'm like taking forever. No, you'll cut this out. You'll cut this. Do you have something? Should I think you have something? Are you thinking too? Okay. I mean I I'm thinking about what Vandy has. I'm thinking about them and what their scouting report would be if I met Vandy.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Um I think attack them offensively. Go at them offensively, put them in ball screens. I agree. I agree. Which they're gonna do that anyway because Bandy runs a whole lot of screens, period. It's a lot of screens and they and they offense. I I I like they have court offense.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

Let me let me see. Let me see. I agree with that. I agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

I should have I should have prepped for this one. I know. That was a good that was a great question. I just thought about it on the spot because I I think that they really do, I think this is gonna be a good game. This is a good determining factor game about I think when it comes to, I don't know, when it comes to the SEC tournament, it's either gonna be South Carolina either gonna stand tall or we gonna be surprised.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

You said South Carolina.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

I'm saying like with the SEC tournament. Oh, you're gonna be able to do it. I'm saying either South Carolina is going to stand tall. Yeah, yeah. Or we're gonna be surprised. And I wouldn't be shocked if we surprised by Bandy, Texas, or LSU.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

Oh, yeah. I when I when I think about the SEC, I really think it could be anybody. We don't know. Anybody could win that that tournament. Hell, uh, even the teams that aren't even like listed that you just say it's a good thing. That's what I'm saying. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 11:01

Because think about what Tennessee last year. Tennessee was a three-point shot away from beating South Carolina.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Yeah, absolutely. Um, I think I'm I'll just I'll I'll I'll say that. Um I thought they short pace of the game. I I agree with that. I think they do have to, Vandy does have to, they have to play fast. If I'm thinking about when Texas played LSU, I thought LSU did better, obviously, when they pushed the ball in transition. Yeah. Um I think if you get into a half-court game with Texas, um, I think it'll be I'll say harder to score, but I mean they're gonna score. But I think their half-court defense is really good. If I'm Texas, I think their average defense is uh good, especially when they're like really locked in. Yeah. Um, so I think playing fast and controlling the pace of the game that way, um, if I'm Vandy. Um also I think I would definitely, if I could, I would be attacking the basket. I would try to get they big girls in foul trouble. If I could. And especially like knowing that they they foul. Some of their better players foul in terms of like their decision-making um awareness of what the fouls they have. But you know, Madison will pick up two, Rory can pick up two, Carlton could pick up two. You know what I'm saying? Um, so I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

If it's early foul trouble for Texas, it's it's it's not gonna be good.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

I thought one of the things Vandy did well was um, especially when they played UK, they did that that um that pick and roll.

SPEAKER_00 12:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

That pick and roll killed UK. Yeah. Uh with the what's her name? Washington.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

With her. They did it, she did that that ball screen with Michaela Blake. She did the ball screen with Galvin and ate them up every single time. You know what I mean? You kind of had to choose who who you were gonna go with. Were you gonna go with the roller? Were you gonna uh stay with stay with the ball? And Michaela a couple times just shot the three.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

You know what I'm saying? Like at the top of the key. Um, so yeah, I mean, like, I that it's just it's gonna be a good game. I think honestly, it's it might come to like just like who plays harder, who got the game.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

It should be a good game. But then again, I feel like when it comes to Vandy, like I feel like Vandy, I I've watched them a lot. I feel like I haven't had to question like the effort and stuff like that. Now, if Rory come in and she heating up little assists, it's gonna be a long night for Vanderbilt. But it's like what Tech, it's like what game, what team are we gonna get? You get what I'm saying? Like, no, absolutely had a game at home, now they on the road. You know what I'm saying? I I think that I think that Texas, if Texas plays, if they have a whole team, a play like a complete team, like they know that like we know that they can be. Yeah, I think it could be a 10-point game, and that's hard for me to say because you know I love some bandy, honey. I I really like bandy a lot right now. Um I like bandy shooters. It's gonna be a big game of role players. Because I think when you come to the scouting report, we have our focuses. We have Madison Booker, who's our focus, we have Galvan, we got Michaela Blake's, you know what I'm saying? I think that it could be a game of role players and what they're made of and what they do.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

Um I can see that though. I can see that too.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

Who's a role player on Texas? Who like Jordan Lee? Jordan Lee. Oh. Well, I'd be happy to see her knock down some shots tomorrow. Yeah. Because I know she's in a in a slump. And I I know the the coach is probably like, I could, like, I hope this is the game. She's knocking them down, for sure. For sure.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Um, at this point, I mean, Oldager's a role player.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

Oldacker's, and she can definitely change the course of a game.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:09

She could definitely change the course of a game. Um Carlton. I mean, even Vandy's gonna be a game. Carlton's a role player. I know. So who are the role players on on Vandy? Sasha.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Sasha. My girl, Passat.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

And you think she is, you think she's a role player?

SPEAKER_00 15:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

I think she's a she's a role player I want on my team.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

No, I guess that you're right. I guess I'm looking like to me, Passat is like always consistent to me and what she brings to the team.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

She does her role.

unknown 15:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

Consistently.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

I guess. I I guess okay, I guess I'm thinking about like X Factors. X Factors and role players, I guess, are a little bit different. I guess I'm thinking like, you know. A X Factor, I I don't know. I think I think that's what I'm thinking in, and in my head, I'm thinking like a X Factor is somebody that like they play really hard. They may not average like a bunch of points or something like that. You know what I mean? Like they might average like four points, you know, okay, two rebounds, but they play like 15 minutes, 20 minutes. Okay. Or something like that. Okay. But then, you know, next game, or you play them, X Factor got 20 points.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

So to me.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

And you just like, what on the scouting report? This girl averaged five points and two rebounds, and then she just she just dropped 30 on us or something.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

So that's an X Factor to you.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

Yeah, a role player to me. That's a good conversation. Okay. A role player to me is like, I guess, like a a passat or somebody like that. Like, you know, um, I don't know what she averages, but you know, it's it's a role that's consistent for the team to win. Okay. Like she consistently, I don't know what Justine averages, but I'm just saying- I think maybe like 12. 12. She consistently averages 12 every single night. You know what I'm saying? Um, and she, and you know, you know, as a coach scouting, a role player that they have the ability to get more than 12. You get what I'm saying? Um, but an X factor is more like, okay, like, you know how we talked about last page, maybe not last page, but end of the rotation, they play um 15, 20 minutes, okay. They fuck around and got 30, 20. So you never had an X Factor like just good. Drop like 30 on you or something, not 30 on you, but on the team. Yeah. Or you just like.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

If I think about if I think about an X Factor on the team, remember Molly Hetty? Who played with us? Mm-hmm. That was an X Factor. That was a might make three threes in a row. Might we on, we get beat on defense. She done took a damn charge. Maybe two.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

So you just like what's what what yeah. You get what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Shout out to Molly Hetty. Uh she was that for us on my team. Um Okay. That's good. So for me, when I think about, because I I like Passat a lot on that team. Cause she's a 6'4, she's a 6'4 three player, a wing player for one. She's shooting 45% from the three. You know, she can shoot it all the way outside, she can step up and make big three free throws. She averaged 28 minutes a game. I think that she could go into being an X Factor and come in and get 25. She's a person that you gotta talk about on a scout report. Like, you're saying that on the scout report. Like, if she catch the ball garder, it could be a long if she hits one, she might hit three. It's gonna be a long night. She might hit three. So I think that when you talk about your scout report, it's like this is the one. When I think about the one on that team, like this is the one who you don't want to go off. That's the one I'm saying in practice if it makes sense. Like, I got what she's saying. That's the one, like, of course, we focused on these two, the star players, Batman and Robin, but Batman and Robin could get 15 and 15, and this person over here got 25, and then that's that was the game.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

So that's how I kind of.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

You open up the app, you open up the ESPN app, and you're like, man, what happened? And then you look at the bench, you like that. 16, 15, like, you know what I mean? Like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

I think with them, they just have people who do like a lot of little things. Um, you know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, if I tell you what, I tell you one thing I don't want to see about anymore. I don't want to see a whole bunch of missed layups, Jesus. Because if I I'm telling you, if I have one more game of that when it comes to them and they post players, Jesus, I'm gonna lose it. But if we talk about who is that person on Texas that could, I mean, I feel like if we talk about the person on the scout report who can mess around and get 20, who could mess around and be the X factor of the game, I feel like Texas has more of those than what Bandy does.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Yeah, absolutely. I just right off the we talk, we said Old Acre, Carlton. I mean, shoot, Carlton was hooping against uh Crump, UK.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

I don't know what happened with her last, I don't know what happened with her last game. Uh I didn't I haven't looked at Crump. Roy definitely have more than that. Roy to me, Roy has her thing that she does. I think Roy's a role player.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Absolutely. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 20:40

But she can still come and you know, I feel like they have more of that. Sidberry, I feel like they have a lot of that. I feel like Vandy doesn't have as much.

SPEAKER_01 20:51

I agree with that. I I would like to see Texas absolutely uh I would like to see them use their post players, I think, starting out for Vandy, like starting out that game. Go at they post players? I wouldn't think I'm not mad at that. I would I would like to see that, you know. Um just because are they I don't feel like they have a lot of like I don't feel like they have a lot of death in that that pos in that area in that position.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Who?

SPEAKER_01 21:29

Um Bandy You know, like if Washington gets in foul trouble, um, you know, like who's coming in after that? You know what I'm saying? But also, like if I'm looking at like Old Acre and all of them, they're a little bit bigger. I mean more physical.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

At the end of the day, with you if we're looking at rosters, Texas has a lot. They do. I mean, if we're looking at a Texas has a lot of weapons. I mean, they've got a lot. I mean So that's why I'm kind of like when we see games like I feel I mean even with Texas the other day, Texas had a bad game on a bad day and still still see what they did. You get what I'm saying? Like we won on a bad, a bad off night. Um see I think that your girl, so you got Sasha Washington. Um see? Okay, we got the girl who transferred from Texas. Stuff like that matters to me too. I done came from another school. Oh, she did. Stuff like that matters to me too. Like, so I expect her to go hard. Yeah. You know, I mean, stuff like that to me makes a difference. Um we would Del Rosario get more minutes, or was that just a fluke?

SPEAKER_01 23:01

See, and that's the thing too. I'm trying to see. Let me check.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Iana Mitchell, she's not bad. I mean, it is it's like you got people averaging six points, four rebounds who play very little minutes, who averaged 16 minutes a game. That's not bad.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Yeah. Um I think the one thing that I'm like, and when I'm looking at some of their like past, I'll just say like the past, like maybe three or four games, they've looked that for Vandy, they've really only played like five people.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

You get what I'm saying? Um, so I think that may come into play. That's why I talk about like the foul trouble thing. Um, if they're gonna have to sub, if they're gonna have to sit people. We already know Michaela Blake's always is on go, so I'm not really worried about her stamina in that way, um, or Galvin. But, you know, we are at the end of the season, we are playing a a better Texas team uh than the start of the season. Um, so yeah, who knows? We'll see. It'll still be a great game.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

If I look at what Vanny did against Kentucky, 84, 83, 37, 16, 15, 8. And it's like you wanna be like, I mean, it's hard for somebody to get 37 every night, but we've seen 37, 32, and 30. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Like, but I mean, they're gonna let I mean they're gonna I think Texas is gonna make the rest of them beat to beat them. You know what I mean? I agree. Remember how we always talked about like it's just certain people that like you just can't stop. Yeah and all you can do is just try to contain.

SPEAKER_00 24:41

Contain. It's so funny. It's funny because I mean, I I was one of those. I felt like you know, just try to contain as much as you can. Yeah. Let me look. If we go back to did anybody, who did what against South Carolina when they played? We think about a team that could that completely broke down when it came to South Carolina. Michaela Blake still had 23. She still had 23, 7, and 5. You know, I mean, and I and y'all, so we talked about last show we said that sis was gonna be the pla SC player of the year, and people was over Joyce Edwards. I love y'all. I I truly do, and I love Joyce, but I'ma hold y'all's hand when I tell y'all this season. I think Michaela went ahead and I think she's I think she's running with it.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

I think so too.

SPEAKER_00 25:41

I think that she's running with it. I think so.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

I mean it's just for me, it's just the flat out, like just her ability to really like change the course of a game. Yeah, and when we talk about foot on the gas, it's something that we have been talking about all year. It's like she keeps her foot on that gas the entire time.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

Yeah. Um what are you mad about? Like who who said something to you?

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Like it's just it's just, I mean, like, and you can see it the way like it's like, you know, we've watched it, and it's like as soon as she hit like two shots, we'd be like, uh-oh. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Like, uh Here comes Kobe.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Uh uh. You know, so um, yeah, we love Joyce. Um, I just don't when I watch Joyce, I don't get that same when I'm watching Michaela, that same, like, uh-oh, like this girl about to she about to turn it on. They don't want to.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

I'm gonna go ahead. Yeah, it's gonna piss y'all off too in the comments, but but whatever. That's gonna piss them off again too. But Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Um We love Joyce, okay?

SPEAKER_00 26:46

Y'all panties being such a wide sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

Great players. I mean, shoot, Sarah Strong players, just people could be mad. Like, cause she's she's killing it too. Like, I mean, but like, they can only give it to one person, y'all.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

I think that we got a Kobe in the STC, and it's just Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

I think that it's just really it's giving people are like participation trophy people. They all want a trophy. Everybody can't give it a.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

No, I think that with women's basketball, when women's colours I feel like women's college basketball is some loyal ass fans. They are. They some loyal ass fans. They are. It's like, I'm with my team, I'm with my team, I'm not against my team. I'm with the and the thing, no, you know, nobody loves Tennessee Tech like I do. But unfortunately, I I hate to say this, but this is just not our year. Western Illinois, if I had to say who was gonna win the conference today, that's who's gonna win. If I had to say who's the best player in the conference, they got it on their team. I I hate it it hates me to say that because I love my university. And I think, you know, I was talking shit saying we was gonna beat South Carolina last year, which I knew we wasn't, but you know what I'm saying? Like, my I don't sometimes we have our shades on as fans, and like I'm in the day, I'm a realist because I played too. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's it's cute and all. We want to ride, but it you have to say the truth too, not open my eyes to things like that. But um, I just think that even just with like Michaela Blake's, like, just for what she's doing and what she's done, I don't I don't think that people understand. Like, I get it. Like, if you a fan whatsoever, when you played, like, people don't get how hard this shit is to do. You get what I'm saying? People don't get it's hard to get a good team. You struggling 23, and then you can say she took 24 shots, but she still made enough to get 23 points. She still kept fighting, she still had seven rebounds. Like, people don't understand how much shape you gotta be in to score like that. When you get in 37, 35, four games in a row. I mean, people don't get how hard this stuff is. It's not easy. It's not, you know what I'm saying? And it's like with us, even with us sometimes when we talk about it, it's like I feel like with us when we talk about this show, we talk about certain things. I I don't feel like me and you ask for much, right? I feel like, you know, when we talk about even with Madison Booker the other day, we're not asking for much. We asking for you to shoot the ball. You know what I'm saying? We asking for you to go hard. We're we don't ask for, we ask for you just to play defense. We don't ask for much. You get what I'm saying? We ask for stuff that we know that you can't control. Right. You know, so it's just like with the fact that like the stuff that she's doing right now, and the shout out to her coach, because her coach be advocating and riding hard in press conferences, because it's like what she's doing this year, and I ain't discrediting nobody else, but just 37, 35, you gotta call it for what it is.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

I'm calling it for what it is, you have to call it for what it is. And people that's watching, y'all have to call it for what it is, and that's okay. It is okay, it doesn't take anything from anybody else at all.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

It's just very hard to do. I I guess it's just it's hard to do that. And I was a player who only averaged 17 points a game.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

And you're talking about she's averaging this in the SEC.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

Right.

SPEAKER_01 30:00

The toughest conference, the toughest conference, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 30:04

So And it's sad to say that if you contain somebody, if you get somebody under 25, you did your job. Mm-hmm. I don't I've never played against somebody like that. I mean, we kept just keep her under 25. What?

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Right. But what else you gonna do?

SPEAKER_00 30:19

What?

SPEAKER_01 30:20

Some people just got it like that. No, it's it's this year. The the teams have been it'll be this is gonna be interesting. It's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Yeah, it's gonna be a good game. Um, are we we should be able to record? They're asking for a more consistent schedule, y'all. Child, that's hard for us to give y'all because we be we be having a lot going on, honey. I be wanting to tell y'all.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

What's a consistent schedule? Right, what is a consistent schedule? What is that? Y'all tell us in the comments what is a consistent schedule? Like, y'all want us to post on like a certain day? Like, you know, what what does that look like? Because I need to know. Just like just so we on the same page, so we can see it. Is that even possible?

SPEAKER_00 30:59

Okay, so we can let so we can set expectations for y'all and with y'all, okay? Because we baby, we yes, let us know honey what a consistent schedule is for y'all so we can so we can work that out, honey. Help us help you, and we'll tell you absolutely not. Because I mean, some of these people be recording every single day, baby. I I would love to get to that point. You know, our plans is to get to that point, honey. Now, March Madness, March, we worked making arrangements. I done, I I had a second job, I done quit for y'all to focus on this. So there's that. Um, but yeah, honey.

SPEAKER_01 31:37

And I got the two kids, and I can't quit.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Baby, we have lives.

SPEAKER_01 31:40

I cannot quit. I cannot quit motherhood, even though I just sometimes I could just check out parents, y'all know.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

Okay, I love my babies though, but who right, because you know that she don't love her kids.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

She says why not put her. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

You know they love to create drama where it ain't none. I know, I know, I know. But anywho, but I mean, we can go, I can record after this game tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

Oh, yeah, I can too.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Yeah. So we can go live. That's cool. We we'll go live after the game tomorrow and we will discuss what happened. Now, hopefully we see a good game, child. If I if I see a blowout tomorrow and it pissed me off after I done think this should be a close game and it's somebody coming at crazy, I just hopefully not.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

Yeah, I always give it till halftime.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

If it's a blowout by halftime, I'm like we we going live at halftime and calling it a night and telling y'all good night. Okay, because but anyway, but um that's pretty much all we got. I forgot. Make sure you guys subscribe if you haven't already. We appreciate you guys. Um, yeah, make sure you like the video. Y'all have a good night.

SPEAKER_02 32:49

Bye, guys.