Welcome into Rocky Talk, the Daily Tennessee podcast. My name is Josh Ward. Thank you for being along here on today's show. Tennessee will be back on the practice field today. It was an off day on Monday as the vols got a little rest after practicing Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

And early in camp, one thing that Tennessee has been focused on, I think, and maybe this goes back through the entire offseason, is finding leaders, guys that can help lead the way on the practice field in the weight room, in film sessions, guys that are not afraid to step up and

be vocal. I'm going to talk about that a little bit on today's show as there is one player

who appears to be emerging as a leader for Tennessee's football team. Jeremy Pruitt is going to

talk about that player here on today's show. An interesting note from David Ubin's story on The Athletic, his story that

went up on Monday talking about Tennessee's hire of Jeremy Pruitt and how he landed in that

position. Bill Conley of SB Nation on the Vols, what he sees with Tennessee's football team this

upcoming year and more high praise for Tennessee's basketball team heading into

this upcoming season. I'm going to get to all of that right here on Rocky Talk, the daily

Tennessee podcast available every day on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, and all the third-party

apps posted at rocky talk podcast.com. And now that practice is underway and there is Tennessee football on the field to talk

about each day, we have a lot to cover.

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Tell your friends, family, whoever you might think would be interested in the show.

Let them know we're talking about Tennessee every day here on the podcast. And a big topic, I think, especially when you have

a new coach taking over and you're trying to implement the culture you're looking for and

trying to get things started as quickly as possible is looking for leadership, guys who can

step forward. And in those cases, you of course

look for guys who have been on the field, guys who have experience and can point to what he's

done in certain situations on the field. The different situations a player has been in a game.

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