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Seen a TON of misinformation regarding transfers for Texas and Texas Tech softball. The numbers floating around are incorrect for both teams. So this should help provide some accurate information and also some context to the discussion.
Texas Tech has eight new transfers on the roster in 2026. They have 15 total transfers.
Texas has four new transfers on the roster in 2026. They have five total transfers.
Texas Tech's eight new transfers this season:
Jackie Lis (Southern Illinois)
Mia Williams (Florida)
Lagi Quiroga (Cal)
Taylor Pannell (Tennessee)
Desi Spearman (New Mexico State)
Jazzy Burns (Ohio State)
Kaitlyn Terry (UCLA)
Nikolette Schmidt (Houston)
Texas' four new transfers this season:
Kaiah Altmeyer (Arizona)
Taylor Anderson (Oklahoma State)
Brenlee Gonzales (Texas Tech)
Sophia Bordi (Oklahoma)
Texas Tech's prior transfers:
Alana Johnson (Washington)
Nija Canady (Stanford)
Mihyia Davis (Louisiana)
Chloe Riasetto (Louisiana)
Vic Valdez (Louisiana)
Lauren Allred (Louisiana)
Makayla Garcia (UT-Tyler)
Texas' prior transfers:
Kaydee Bennett (Abilene Christian)
One other note of context: Gerry Glasco took over at Texas Tech prior to the 2025 season. Davis, Riassetto, Allred, and Valdez came with him from Louisiana (along with the now graduated Alexa Langeliers) to help build this new program that had only three returners from the 2024 team: Reagan Jennings, Logan Halleman, and Demi Elder.
They had three players left from the prior era. The portal (and their eight-player recruiting class for 2025) was necessary to mold a roster out of thin air.
So anyway, stop sharing that bogus graphic... and also stop acting like any team that is utilizing the transfer portal or NIL (Texas, Texas Tech or anyone else) is doing anything wrong.
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1. Craig Snider resigned on June 9, 2024
2. Glasco was hired on June 20, 2024
3. Texas Tech had 3 girls on the roster when he arrived
4. He brought 4 girls from Louisiana with him who he recruited out of HS.
5. It was late June. HS recruiting was over
So… what should Tech have done for the 2025 season? Not field a team and then go to HS recruiting so they could have a team for 2026 and everyone in the softball universe feels better?
Fact is, he had to build a roster. We have invested donors and one was a member of our softball team in the early 2000’s. He used those resources to put a team together.
Every team in every sport at every university uses the portal to put together the best team possible that they can assemble. He took a badass pitcher and a rag tag team who could small ball the hell out of you to the final game of the season. Maybe just maybe, he’s a good coach.
I love how Coach Signetti is allowed to show up to the worst football program in college football history. Like 134 years and 13 bowl appearances. Flips an entire roster, makes the playoff, the next year wins the whole damn thing and he is absolutely praised for it. Gets $13 million a year for it. Has donors like Mark Freaking Cuban. But since they are Big 10, it’s allowed.
But little ole Texas Tech needs to remember its place in this world and shouldn’t be doing this at all so the blue bloods feel good at the end of the day.
Oh and not embracing it? 😂 we have put literal pump jacks on campus. Our GM for football tweets out “stay mad, buy gas”. Our students hold up signs saying “we love oil money”
We know exactly who the hell we are. We were the school punched down on for years…. And now it’s not fun for everyone else when the rabbit has the gun.
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Amazing how someone can turn a 15 second clip into a character evaluation.
I played for Coach Glasco both collegiately and professionally. I’d run through a wall for him all over again.
He cared about us.
He showed up for us as people.
Sure he taught me how to be a great hitter, but coaching is more than skills & strategy. It carries life lessons.
This is a man who was patient with me while recovering from an injury that kept me off the field. It wasn’t my best decision, but he understood.
This is a man who made sure I had somewhere to go for Thanksgiving while I recovered from knee surgery & couldn’t be with my family.
He coaches hard. Holds you accountable. But that’s what all great coaches do.
You can debate strategy all you want.
But questioning his character, our how much he cares about his athletes is a battle you will lose with anyone who’s actually played for him.
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For people who don't understand the Texas Tech softball backlash, I think it's less about NIL money than it is a dislike of super-teams.
The Red Raiders are the LeBron-DWade-Bosh Miami Heat. The Ohtani-Mookie-Freddie-Yamamoto Dodgers. Or The travel team that gobbles up all the area's best players and then kicks your butt all summer long.
Unless you have an inherent reason to cheer for those teams, you cheer against them. You complain how those teams came together. You bark it's not fair.
It's in our wiring; part jealousy and part love for the underdog. Our greatest sports stories are not tales of successful, well-paid, super-talented players joining forces to beat everyone who dares to stand in their way. They're stories about rag tag misfits overcoming adversity to beat such super teams and persevering when no one (legitimately) believed they could succeed. They are stories like 2016 Leicester City.
It isn't right or wrong. That's just the way fans are wired. Tech should be tickled. They have yet to win a national championship -- that could change this week -- but they have become THAT team. Yes, they live "rent free" as their fans like to point out. That's their role in all this drama. And that's ok!
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Not gonna platform any of the (sadly multiple) examples of this, but if you’re attacking the innocent underage kids of politicians whose views you don’t like you really should log off and do some soul searching. If such a thing is possible.
