Coronavirus impact on Vols, college sports
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🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Patrick Brown (from his house at an unspecified location) convened via the magic of Al Gore's Internets to discuss the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on college sports and what options the Vols and everyone else have going forward.
The first segment of this episode is a general discussion on where things stand for various college sports — fall, winter and spring sports — during this extended hiatus. Obviously this was shaping up to be potentially the best Tennessee baseball season in years, so Tony Vitello and his BaseVols came up a good bit in that segment. But football, basketball and other sports were discussed, as well.
Football takes the stage by itself in the second segment of this episode, with a discussion on what kind of options Tennessee and the rest of the college football world has at this point. Tennessee has been through two spring practices. Some programs have had more, and some haven’t started yet. Is there any kind of a fair or fairish way to handle this situation? Those options — plus the few things we gleaned from this limited viewing we had of the Vols this spring — are discussed in the second segment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. Good morning, afternoon, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunchtime, quarantine time. |
| 0:25.0 | quarantine time in Tennessee, not sounds, does not sound as good as football time in Tennessee time. |
| 0:32.0 | Or basketball time in Tennessee time or basketball time and |
| 0:33.1 | Tennessee time but that's what time we have time |
| 0:36.0 | whatever time of day it is boys and girls it's the right time for the |
| 0:38.8 | go balls 24 seven podcast |
| 0:41.1 | West record coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio here on a Monday afternoon |
| 0:47.3 | From across the |
| 0:49.2 | across the city of Knoxville at an undisclosed location somewhere in Knox County. |
| 0:55.0 | Joined in this podcast by good, good coworker, good coworker, good work proximity |
| 1:02.1 | associate partner Patrick Brown. Pat what's going on man? |
| 1:06.7 | Nothing much just keeping up with the social distancing. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah that is that really a problem for us that much though? Like I don't I gotta be honest with you. I don't hate the whole social distancing thing. |
| 1:18.0 | No, I mean at some point though I imagine will all be kind of getting was a |
| 1:25.4 | cabin fever yeah but no I mean for for most of the staff and I will speak for |
| 1:32.0 | Krat Ramey even though he's not here. |
| 1:34.3 | A few of us wouldn't mind having to not leave our houses but just for like non-essential |
| 1:39.8 | things. So yeah I mean I don't I don't hate it because especially we got the yard here that we can pull that I can play around in and, you know, got some dirt. |
| 1:50.4 | I got to move around after getting the new fence put in. I got some stuff that I'd love to be doing and I guess now we'll have time to do that because there will be no for the foreseeable future anyways no Tennessee football no Tennessee basketball no |
| 2:03.6 | tendency baseball to cover even recruiting wise you know they can just make |
| 2:07.7 | phone calls there's really nothing else they can do on that front for a while and |
| 2:12.1 | and here's what's interesting, Pat. |
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