Former Vols star talks solo coronavirus workouts

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🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and special guest Jayson Swain (from his house across town) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss the shock to the system that this coronavirus shutdown is having on Tennessee football players.

Swain, who caught 126 passes while starring at Tennessee from 2003-06, returned to Knoxville after his playing days were done and started a new (and equally successful) career in the radio business. He hosts The Swain Event every morning from 7-10 Eastern. As a former star and captain at Tennessee, Swain has a unique insight into just how weird it will be for the current Vols to spend such an extended period of time away from their coaches, teammates and sanctioned workouts.

How will — or at least should — the Vols occupy their time during this indefinite leave from campus? How can a player stay physically and mentally sharp without the use of a full weight room and teammates to workout with in the complex? Is it possible for a player to do that? It's worth mentioning that players almost never, at any point in the calendar year, spend more than a week or two away from some kind of action. This will be a shock to their systems. There's no way around that. But how can that shock be mitigated in some way? Swain's as good a place as any to start looking for some answers, and this episode, in addition to being a good old-fashioned Swain and Rucker reunion, is a search for those answers.

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0:00.0	Hi. Good morning, afternoon, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunch time, still under quarantine time.
0:25.0	Think April, maybe even worse than March time.
0:30.0	That's not very optimistic time. Let's think about puppies time. I don't know something
0:38.9	happier time. Whatever time of day it is boys and girls it's the right time for the Goval's 24-7
0:44.4	podcast West Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio recording this
0:49.3	little bit here late on a Wednesday night slash Thursday morning going to drop this to you on a
0:54.6	Thursday maybe Thursday morning maybe Thursday afternoon not quite sure yet but
1:00.8	whatever time of day it is whatever day it is whatever time of day it is, whatever day it is, whatever time it is, or how
1:06.3	be spending part of it with us on the GoValls 24-7 podcast. Just me right
1:10.7	here for the intro guys, but it not just going to be me for this episode and again just
1:16.8	bear with me please my voice has been bad for a few weeks now it still is hopefully that's going to get better soon, but not that it was ever really that good to begin with was it.
1:27.5	Who are we trying to kid here? But it's not just me in this episode. We're going to do something a little bit different. I gave the
1:34.0	rest of the guys the day off at least from podcasting unless there's some big breaking news
1:38.6	or something and I went to one of my favorite people in the world and a guy who I used to do radio with every single day and a guy who is still one of my favorite people in the world, still one of my really near and dear friends, he and his whole family.
1:52.0	Jason Swain is going to be with us on this program. my really near and dear friends, he and his whole family.
1:52.5	Jason Swain is going to be with us on this program.
1:55.4	And the reason that I thought Swain would be good,
1:57.4	first off, Swain would be good for any Tennessee football
2:01.1	or basketball conversation or anything like that having to do with the Voss.
2:04.4	It does a great job hosting the Swain event every morning from 7 to 10 a.m.
2:08.8	And you can see him there at Swain event on Twitter.
2:11.5	You can listen to the show here locally. You can get it pretty much anywhere.
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