Can the Transfer Portal Fix Tennessee Football’s Offensive Struggles? | Mailbag Show

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Can Tennessee football reclaim their dominance in college football on the offensive side of the football? With a spotlight on the Tennessee Volunteers' recent performance in 2024, this episode unpacks the intricacies of their passing game, transfer portal dynamics, and the buzz around wide receiver coach Kelsey Pope. Eric Cain navigates through the Volunteers' challenges and triumphs, offering insights into the team's evolving strategies and the potential impact of key players that can be paired with quarterback Nico Iamaleava. Listeners will gain a deeper understanding of the Volunteers' outlook for the upcoming season, including the anticipated return of pivotal players and the implications of recent roster changes. The episode also touches on the Tennessee baseball team's prospects and the ongoing renovations at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. Tune in to explore the Tennessee Volunteers' path to success and discover what lies ahead for this storied program. 0:00 Intro 5:04 Tennessee's offensive passing decline 15:19 Team strengths and growth areas 20:24 2025 SEC predictions 25:04 NIL spending and transfer portal 30:08 Roster updates

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0:00.0	What is the latest with Tennessee in the Transfer Portal and why it feels like Tennessee is coming off a 5 and 7 season instead of a 10 and 2 regular season?
0:08.0	It's your mailbag edition of Locked On Balls. It starts now.
0:12.0	You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the
0:22.6	Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:26.3	Hey, good Tuesday morning, everybody.
0:27.6	Welcome to Locked on Vols.
0:28.8	I am Eric Kane, and I'm so glad you guys are here for the final show of 2024.
0:33.7	If you've been with us throughout this entire year, thank you so much.
0:36.5	If you're new to the show, hey, we'll still be here in 2025.
0:39.7	Despite football season being over, there's still so much to talk about.
0:43.0	This is where you get your morning started if you're a Tennessee football fan or Tennessee fan in general.
0:47.5	We'll talk basketball, we'll talk baseball, we'll talk recruiting, and we're talking some transfer portal today.
0:52.0	But here on this show, we're going to answer your questions.
0:54.8	Add underscore Caner at Lockdown Ball, some of the YouTube channel.
0:57.7	I've starred a lot of the questions I'm going to get into, so I thank you for that.
1:01.3	And then in segment number three, we're going to rank Tennessee's opponents for the 2025 season.
1:06.3	So let's go ahead and start with Bruce on the loose. He sent a bunch of screenshots from a local sports show here in Knoxville that comes on on, I believe, Sundays.
1:14.1	Yeah, called the Sports Source.
1:16.0	And essentially, it's a graphic kind of showing the usage of Tennessee's receivers and screenplays and all that.
1:21.4	He sent me a couple of different graphics, and it's UT Passing Yard versus SEC teams by the year.
1:26.9	And you look at from 2021 to 2024 kind of game by game in the SEC,
1:32.0	and you're seeing that they were pretty solid in 2021.
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