Episode 179: Defensive newcomers roundtable
GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast
247Sports, Tennessee, Tennessee Volunteers, Tennessee Football, Tennessee athletics, Football, Colle
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 90 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 plenty of football topics and some baseball.
The Tennessee baseball team opens its first NCAA Tournament in 14 years with a Friday night game against Liberty in Chapel Hill, N.C., and there’s plenty to discuss with second-year head coach Tony Vitello’s Vols.
But football, as usual, is the meat and potatoes of the Football Friday podcast.
Some interesting SEC and Tennessee-specific news emerged from this week’s annual SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Fla., so there’s plenty to discuss on that front, including the potential of alcohol sales to the general public at Neyland Stadium in the very near future.
Tennessee continues to wait on news of the immediate-eligibility waiver appeals for transfers Aubrey Solomon and Deangelo Gibbs, but plenty of other defensive newcomers have enrolled this week and are completely good to go for this season. We discuss those new arrivals in this episode.
A couple of Tennessee players (senior linebacker Darrin Kirkland Jr. and sophomore tight end James Brown) have been added to the medical-retirement list, and this episode also features some insight on those unfortunate situations.
Recruiting is always a topic on the Football Friday podcast, and this week is no exception. Callahan has the latest on several Tennessee targets heading into the busy, camp-filled portion of the recruiting calendar.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Good morning, afternoon, afternoon, evening. |
| 0:15.0 | Brunch time, lunch time, weather cooling down a little bit, finally time. Post-season NCAA baseball tournament time in Tennessee time? |
| 0:27.0 | I believe that's correct time. |
| 0:29.0 | Rough end for softball time, but you know what? what that happens they're still a good |
| 0:34.4 | program time whenever time of data is the right time for the go-valls 24-7 |
| 0:38.9 | podcast West wrecker Ryan Callahan Patrick Brown. |
| 0:46.2 | Coming to you from a Fort Rucker sunroom, sadly, still. |
| 0:51.3 | I mean, it's our home away from home until this longest construction project in construction history gets finished. |
| 0:56.0 | At this point home is going to feel unusual once we go back in there. |
| 0:59.5 | What is this? We're going to get vertigo from the heights, you know? It's going to be tough. |
| 1:04.0 | Y'all are going to forget that when you walk up the stairs, you've got to dip your head a little bit because it's really old house and you'll knock your head on it. |
| 1:10.0 | I'll tell you, but I won't tell Patrick. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey Patrick, we fix the thing so you can just stand straight. I'll tell you but I won't tell Patrick. |
| 1:12.6 | Hey Patrick, go, we fixed the thing so you can just stand straight up |
| 1:15.1 | when you walk up the stairs now. |
| 1:17.2 | I appreciate that. |
| 1:18.1 | That's the tallest member of the Gobo Swim 4-7 staff. |
| 1:21.4 | That is true, you are the tallest, but by by good inch and a half probably |
| 1:24.8 | congratulations you want a trophy for that yes please you're also the |
| 1:28.3 | angriest driver on staff so you get that too that's true I'll take it |
| 1:31.6 | also best looking debateable we got a lot to discuss on |
| 1:37.2 | this week's football podcast episode recording this on a Friday early |
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