Elite Georgia QB commits to Tennessee
GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Ryan Callahan discuss the newest addition to Tennessee's recruiting class — elite QB Jake Merklinger from Savannah, Georgia.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going to happen tonight? What's going to happen? |
| 0:05.0 | What's going to happen? We What's up y'all? |
| 0:13.0 | What's up y'all? |
| 0:16.0 | What's up y'all? |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome on to the Govalls 24-7 podcast Westrucker coming to you from Fort Rucker studio and as you can tell by the truncated version of this intro. |
| 0:26.2 | We got a breaking news edition of the Go-Valls 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | Let's go on over to that |
| 0:32.8 | Home Daycare Center get to the one and the only Ryan Callahan Ryan |
| 0:35.8 | would you please be so kind as to tell us why we're having a breaking news |
| 0:38.8 | edition of this go-valls 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:42.1 | Well Tennessee has added another player to its |
| 0:44.9 | 2024 recruiting class and this is a pretty big one four-star quarterback Jake |
| 0:48.7 | Mercklinger of Savannah Georgia announced his commitment to Tennessee on Thursday afternoon during a ceremony at his school. |
| 0:56.2 | It was also streamed live on 24-7 sports YouTube page. |
| 1:00.9 | So if you missed it, you can go back and check out the stream of it there to see how it happened. |
| 1:06.5 | But Merckling, you're picking Tennessee over North Carolina, Georgia, and Michigan State. |
| 1:12.4 | Really, I think this came down to Tennessee in North Carolina in the end |
| 1:16.0 | he just visited North Carolina again recently went there twice this year and he was pretty |
| 1:21.3 | intrigued by his opportunity at North Carolina where obviously that offense under Mac Brown has had a lot of success. |
| 1:28.0 | Drake made the star quarterback potentially on the way out after this year headed to the NFL maybe if things go well for him this year so I think he saw a real opportunity for himself to go into a high-powered offense there and maybe compete for a starting job at North Carolina. |
| 1:43.3 | But I think he always liked Tennessee. |
| 1:45.9 | This was this past weekend was back in Knoxville. |
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