Episode 178: Vols not hitting recruiting panic button
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🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan went into the Fort Rucker Sun Room — the Fort Rucker Studio somehow is still being renovated — to discuss recruiting classes present and past for Jeremy Pruitt and his Vols.
The Vols are sitting on just six 2020 commitment following one recent de-commitment and a couple of commitment decisions that didn’t go their way, which understandably is leading to some concern from a Tennessee fan base hoping to see its team back toward its customary place in college football’s pecking order.
Is is really time for concern, though?
Few programs can match the recruiting accolades of Tennessee’s current coaching staff, so there’s a history there. And Tennessee didn’t have many more commitments than this 12 months ago, and that class turned out just fine — perhaps not elite, but just fine.
Perhaps there’s room somewhere between concern and naivety. Either way, it’s May. But there’s still plenty to discuss.
In other news, more of Tennessee’s 2019 signees are set to move to Knoxville and enroll in summer-session classes, and we’ve been in contact with most of those players to provide updated information on them before they officially become Vols.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:01.0 | Good morning, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunch time, really, really hot weather in Knoxville, Tennessee time. Not complaining about that time. A hundred dates till football time in Tennessee time? I believe that's correct time. |
| 0:30.0 | But then again, I'm not sure because I suck at math time. |
| 0:33.0 | Whatever time of day it is, it's the right time for the GoVall's 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:37.8 | West Rucker, Patrick Brown, Ryan Callahan. |
| 0:41.2 | Coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio Studio dropping this on a Thursday afternoon. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm gonna actually recording this on a Thursday afternoon, gonna drop it on a Friday morning. |
| 0:52.0 | 50 seconds in. |
| 0:54.3 | I already got one error. That's good. It's a good omen. |
| 0:58.7 | I mean you're kind of a mistake-prone guy, but that's part of the... |
| 1:02.0 | That comes with the territory right that's true and |
| 1:04.7 | before we started this podcast we decided we were going to take a straw poll |
| 1:09.2 | and whoever's favorite baseball team was in first place got to pick the topic for today. |
| 1:14.0 | Well not me. |
| 1:17.0 | Passing rally is in first place of everything so it doesn't matter. |
| 1:21.0 | He's like baseball Jesus. |
| 1:24.0 | So I'm going to go ahead and pick the topic, just kidding, we picked this way beforehand, |
| 1:28.0 | it was a community decision. |
| 1:29.0 | We got a couple things to talk about on the podcast today, |
| 1:32.0 | one that you're gonna like what about recruiting |
| 1:35.1 | Wes then one that you might not like so much I just thought we needed to get |
| 1:38.9 | into it well no you're gonna like some recruiting talk and then you're not going to like some |
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