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🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio near downtown Knoxville) and Grant Ramey (from GoVols247’s Blount County Satellite Office in Maryville) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss five-star shooting guard Jaden Springer’s commitment to Tennessee.

Springer — the nation’s No. 16 overall prospect in the 2020 industry-generated 247Sports Composite — chose the Vols over a Who’s Who of suitors, but his final three were Tennessee, Michigan and Memphis.

The 6-foot-5, 195-pound Springer — a Charlotte native who had a firm offer from North Carolina — transferred to Florida’s IMG Academy to complete his high school career, and he became the latest member of Tennessee’s star-studded 2020 class that also features five-star shooting guard Keon Johnson (No. 23 overall prospect) and high-four-star guard Corey Walker (No. 36 overall prospect).

Why did Springer choose Tennessee? What does his commitment mean to Rick Barnes and his program? Who will become the next member of the Vols’ historically great class? Those are the quick discussion points of this breaking-news podcast episode.

The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released Thursday morning, unless breaking news occurs before that point.

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0:00.0	What's up y'all?
0:13.4	Wes Rucker, Grant Ramey coming to you here on the GoValls 24-7 podcast as you can tell by
0:18.6	the shorter intro we've got a breaking news podcast and in this case we have got really really
0:26.1	really big basketball news Grant first off how you doing and what's this news
0:31.5	I'm doing good and it's actually just kind of whole-home news with this 2020 class,
0:35.4	Tennessee adds another five-star in a commitment from, and another five-star shooting guard at that,
0:40.8	and a commitment from Jayden Springer, another 2020 five-star joins the class alongside
0:45.7	Keon Johnson and four-star Cori Walker.
0:48.8	So I guess the rich kind of get richer and Rick Barnes adds another five source kind of crazy.
0:53.6	It's the most Grant Ramey thing ever for me to ask him how he's doing
0:56.3	and then for the news and Grant just to get to the news.
0:58.4	That's very, very on brand.
1:00.8	Grant, I guess it is a breaking news podcast, so let's get right to it right.
1:05.0	Jane Springer is ranked 16th overall nationally in the composite.
1:09.3	This young man is 16th overall, the number four shooting guard and the number four prospect in Florida so
1:14.0	must be a whole lot of good basketball players in Florida this cycle but in Tennessee
1:18.8	is getting a bunch of them. Grant this is a kid though I know that he's at
1:22.3	IMG Academy where Lamante Turner played ball, but like Lamante Turner, he is not from Florida originally. He's a Charlotte kid and a Charlotte kid who a lot of the big Carolina schools wanted.
1:34.4	I mean this is a huge, huge deal for Tennessee.
1:37.0	Yeah, and it's another one where Tennessee kind of plays this long game and they've kind of been
1:42.2	the team, the program that has recruited him
1:45.0	the most consistently from the start.
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