IT’S BACK: Tennessee Football Returns with Spring Practice | Transfer Portal Tampering a Concern for Josh Heupel?

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Football has returned to Rocky Top with spring drills starting on Friday. What’s the top-storylines for the Vols in spring practice and why are so many spring football games being cancelled across college football? Is it because of the fear of transfer portal tampering? NO. This episode features insights from Boogie Bentley, who shares his perspective on the impact of spring practice changes and the potential for the Volunteers' success in the upcoming season. Listeners will gain a deeper understanding of the Tennessee Volunteers' approach to overcoming challenges, including the offensive line and wide receiver dynamics. The discussion also touches on the ethical considerations surrounding the transfer portal, with a focus on player Rickey Gibson and his ‘return’ to Tennessee. Tune in for an engaging analysis of the Tennessee Volunteers' path to success and discover how these developments could shape their future.

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0:00.0	Is Transfer Portal tampering?
0:02.0	The fear of tampering via the transfer portal hindering team's ability to do a spring game.
0:08.0	Is that why everybody's canceling spring games?
0:10.0	No! No, it's not.
0:12.0	That more. Plus, a little bit of Tennessee spring practice.
0:15.0	All that here on a Friday, Lockdown Balls.
0:32.0	You are lockeded On Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:59.7	What is up, everybody? Welcome into it, your Friday morning Locked On Vols. I'm your host, Eric Kaine. We are free and available wherever you get your podcast. Go ahead and hit that subscription button. Follow us and download our episodes. Can't thank you enough and it's going to be a fun show. Boogie Bentley. Locked on or locked on Talkin' Balls. Network. And to join me in segment three to get his thoughts on what he's looking for for Tennessee spring practice beginning this morning here on a Friday. Tennessee football adds another analyst. I low-key love what this staff looks like. I think Josh Hubble's on a great job this offseason addressing some needs.
1:04.9	And you're probably sitting here like, well, what are you talking about? The coaching staff is pretty
1:07.4	much intact. I'll explain coming up in second two. But here to kick off
1:11.7	the show, spring games across the country are getting canceled. They're getting canceled to doing away with
1:17.0	it. If not this year, this is the last one. There's been no official rules or there's been no official
1:21.9	announcements regarding Tennessee, but it's a copycat league. If the majority of the SEC is going to do away with spring games,
1:29.2	Tennessee is going to fall suit at some point, right?
1:31.0	It's just a matter of time.
1:32.6	But we're all trying to figure out what's the reason,
1:35.3	and this coach said this, and this coach said this.
1:37.5	I'm going to tell you one reason these games are not being canceled,
1:40.7	and that is the fear of transfer portal tampering. Okay, that's just not how
1:47.7	this works. If I want to go and poach a player from South Carolina, from LSU, from Florida, Georgia,
1:54.2	Alabama, BYU, whoever, okay, it's the spring game and the film and the tape available from the spring game is not going to be my deciding factor.
2:04.9	In fact, let's take it a step further.
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