Mark Campbell

But at the end of the day, when she made her commitment Monday night, TCU won out.

Part of that was due to prior relationship with Mark Campbell.

She actually knows Mark Campbell's wife's dad pretty well, and I think played for him for a period of time.

But they go way back, and that relationship certainly helped her make the decision to come to TCU.

For Mark Campbell, who has obviously been an absolute wizard in the transfer portal and has done as good internationally recruiting as anybody, Signing a class of 2027 four star player out of high school is a huge, huge monkey off of his back.

That's been the missing piece for TCU is can you bring in high school talent and develop them into elite pros? And one of the things that Kayla said that made her decision easy was what TCU could do to develop her.

She made it very clear that she intends to be at the same place for five years so that she can truly develop and become the best version of herself as both a person and a basketball player and is really committed to making an impact in our community beyond just the basketball court.

what's going on family i'm darian gray aka the mouth of the south thank you for making this your first listen of the day every day today's episode is brought to you by kaoshi for a limited time download kaoshi and use code locked on to get 25 when you trade 25 kaoshi trade what's next today's episode closes out with kind of revisiting and putting a bow on a topic that i didn't feel was complete on yesterday's episode, and that is the need, the necessity to limit explosive plays on TCU's defense.

Segment two, we're going to take a look at how Kaler Buse, the high school four-star point guard out of Oregon, is a sign that Mark Campbell is leading the Frogs in the right direction.

But we're going to kick this thing off with Jaden Craig, who the question is still out.

Is he leading the Frogs to a right direction? We've seen two games out of the Harvard transfer.

This is indicative of what Haley Van Lith did.

of what Olivia miles did.

And most importantly, it is indicative of what Mark Campbell is building.

And it starts on the, on the backs of those two players.

We want people to have a reason to come back, not a reason to not come back.

Because you listen to Mark Campbell after some of these basketball games and just the ability for the crowd to have a positive impact.

And for me, it starts with students.

If students are there and loud and having fun, it makes the rest of us old people feel like, we're in a great environment it gives us energy that we feed off of and so we want the students to have a great experience and then we want people yeah it's grambling and they're going to have one of the coolest marching bands we've ever seen come to carter stadium but we also have to execute we have to play well and we have to do all those other things from you know making sure the ticket scanners work and our new led lights and all those things so that people whether they remember the final score or not they had a good day a great experience and they want to come back

If TCU could get more money to get to some of those girls and build that program, build it into a perennial top 10 team for volleyball, it can be done.

I really feel like if it could be done in women's basketball, and this isn't a slight to Mark Campbell, I feel like it could be done with Jason Williams in volleyball.

I think the talent is there.

And by the way, can Becca Kelly come play some receiver? Because

I will tell you... grant from uh north carolina she was solid last year gonna be a junior she was solid last year i liked her um i liked him avery helmstead from utah i liked her too she was she was pretty decent jayden wooten from oklahoma state i like her i mean we're gonna see what they do We're going to see what they do.

Mark Campbell is a good coach.

He be making it do what it do over there at the end of the day.

He do.

it? Yeah, it's great.

And, you know, I joke with Mark Campbell.

I'm like, you know, I had a vision of getting to this point, but I'm like, all I do is just copy what he does.

There you go.

played under the great

Mark Campbell.

And he is the great.

You know the TCU women's basketball coach? Yeah.

He was my

assistant coach.

Yeah, the great Mark Campbell.

The great