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GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Grant Ramey (from GoVols247’s Blount County Satellite Office in Maryville) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss Tennessee’s midweek loss at Cincinnati and the reasons for the program’s first two-game losing streak in two years.

Tennessee’s 78-66 loss at Cincinnati was troubling for many reasons, and those reasons are discussed in detail in the first segment of this episode. The Vols’ offense showed some signs of life after its dismal performance in the 51-47 loss to Memphis, but their defense was as bad as it’s been for a while, and it’s fair to suggest no one in or around the program saw that coming. Why did it happen? What possible explanations are there for that performance? Those aren’t easy questions to answer, but the first segment of this episode is an attempt to make sense of the situation.

An interview with Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes is the second segment of this episode. Barnes, as usual, was candid with his remarks about the rough performances against Memphis and Cincinnati.

Discussion in the third segment focuses on the potential solutions for Tennessee to work its way out of this rut. Is the sky falling? No, it’s not. But these Vols have some real issues at the moment, and it’s fair to wonder just how many solutions there are for some of those issues.

The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released Monday morning, unless breaking news occurs before that point.

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0:00.0	Hi.
0:18.0	Good morning. Good morning, afternoon, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunch time, happy holidays time. Should we say happy holidays time or should we go Merry Christmas happy Hanukkah
0:27.8	Happy Kwanza Festivus whatever time of day it is whatever holiday holiday you're celebrating, it's the right time for
0:34.3	the GoValls 24-7 podcast, West Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio.
0:38.8	Hope you're having a good Friday morning out there, unless it's Friday afternoon or Friday evening or maybe even
0:45.7	Saturday morning maybe Saturday afternoon you're heading over to Thompson
0:49.4	Bowling Arena to watch the Tennessee Volunteers basketball team play the Jacksonville State Gamecocks.
0:55.3	The first game Cox Tennessee will see this season, but not the last gamecocks.
1:00.0	But I, you know, here's the thing guys, I don't care what team Tennessee is playing right now.
1:04.4	It's a struggle. It's been a rough four days for the Tennessee basketball team.
1:11.1	Rough week for the Vols coming off of that break from finals just
1:14.9	hadn't hadn't looked very good and since it's basketball time in Tennessee it's also time for
1:19.5	me to bring in Grant Ramey co-worker from from the, I guess we're going to go ahead.
1:25.0	We've decided it's the Blunt County Satellite Office there in Maryville, Tennessee,
1:31.0	if I can get this technology work.
1:33.1	And what's up, Grant?
1:35.0	I'm here.
1:36.0	Is the technology gone the way of Tennessee basketball the last week?
1:39.2	I tell you, our technology for this podcast, this particular episode has been a struggle.
1:47.0	I hope the quality of it's okay.
1:50.0	I'm going to have to go back and edit some of that. But basically, us, we spent 30 minutes trying to get this thing set up.
1:58.3	Normally it takes about 30 seconds.
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