247Sports College Football Daily: Tennessee braces for another long rebuild, but hopefully this time the payoff is worth it
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Josh Heupel knew what he was getting into when he jumped to Knoxville. Now it's about making sure the fans are realistic about how long a legitimate rebuild might take, while making sure to give them glimmers of hope along the way.
Host: Trey Scott
Guest: Patrick Brown
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It is Thursday, May 6th. You're listening to the College Football |
| 0:09.3 | Daily. My name is Trays Scott. I'm joined for the first time ever in College for Daily History by Patrick Brown of Goevalls 24-7, one of several excellent Tennessee reporters we have on that site. I think the last time we talked Tennessee was West Rucker breaking down the palace intrigue of Jeremy Pruitt. |
| 0:28.0 | And so what do we do for an encore? We bring in Patrick Brown to talk about a spring that I think went pretty well. All things considered for Josh Heeple once the game of draft and all that stuff. Patrick, it felt like for a little bit there with Henry T out the door and |
| 0:44.2 | Quavaras crouch and the arrests of a few players it felt it felt pretty bleak in |
| 0:49.0 | Knoxville I thought. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah and Trey I've been working here for four years so I don't know why I took you guys so long to get me on this podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't know. It's only two years old. It's only two years old. |
| 0:59.0 | All right, so I don't need to go looking for somebody to blame just yet. |
| 1:02.0 | All right. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, it's been quite a tumultuous off season |
| 1:06.5 | for Tennessee for sure. |
| 1:08.0 | You had that one day in January where Henry Toowattowah, |
| 1:11.1 | Kovars Kraus, Eric Gray, and Jamir Johnson, who was their starting left tackle, |
| 1:14.9 | went to the portal within about 15 minutes. They all popped in there right at the end of the day. |
| 1:18.7 | And then the coaching change, NCA stuff, it's been, yeah, it's been a a while even by Tennessee standards it's been a pretty wild few months but |
| 1:26.7 | spring practice was sort of a chance for Josh Hepl and his new staff to kind of settle down and get back to doing what they do and that's |
| 1:33.7 | coach football and I think this spring for pretend of these new staff was a lot |
| 1:37.4 | about evaluation a lot about sort of building sort of a foundation in terms of |
| 1:42.3 | laying what kind of culture, laying out what kind of culture you want in the program. |
| 1:46.0 | For the staff, it was seeing what they have coming back on the roster for the players. |
| 1:50.0 | It was adjusting to a new staff and a lot of it was sort of starting to |
| 1:54.9 | on offense sort of establish an identity of what they're going to be. |
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