Also Tech is rebuilding their roster around Canady to make a second title run in Canady's last year of college ball, which means new faces, new roles, etc. That doesn't always equal a title (see: Texas Volleyball 2024) if things don't go exactly the way you want them to. Mike can counsel Glasco on what happens when team chemistry blows up in your face.
OU returns a massive chunk of its semifinals team + picked up their new rent-an-ace, as does Texas. Pickens isn't leaving Tennessee and they have a top 5 class coming in. Arkansas is also active in the portal. Not to mention Florida, Florida State, Ole Miss, Oregon. UCLA is gutted, so they likely won't be a huge factor in 2026.
Going ahead and crowning Tech as 2026 champions in June of 2025 is pretty dumb, literally anything could happen to them. Canady could blow out her hamstring in March, team chemistry from all the transfers could implode on Glasco, Jazzy Burns could explode Canady's face trying to throw down to 2nd (is 6 years too soon for that?), etc.