James Pearce Jr.'s NFL Draft Stock, Jordan Gainey Or Jahmai Mashack Back For One More Year, & Kim Caldwell Year 2 With Vol Report's Ryan Sylvia & SB Nation's JP Acosta. Plus, Maryville's Derek Hunt!
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by Vol Report's Ryan Sylvia to talk about Tennessee falling to Houston in the Elite Eight (5:00), Zakai Zeigler being Tennessee's best player in the NCAA Tournament, Jordan Gainey vs. Jahmai Mashack for one more year, Lady Vols Sweet 16 loss to Texas, Year 2 scheme questions for Kim Caldwell, and much more. Then, SB Nation's JP Acosta joins the show to talk about James Pearce Jr.'s NFL Draft stock (36:00), if the Falcons should draft him in the first round, Omar Norman Lott's NFL Draft stock, Dylan Sampson's NFL Draft stock & Bru McCoy's NFL Draft stock. To wrap, Maryville's Derek Hunt joins the program to talk about the 2024 season for his Rebels (70:00), Will Jones' development as QB1, evolving as a CEO head coach, revisiting the Alcoa and Oakland losses, and spring/summer position battles to know for the Rebels.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guest: Ryan Sylvia, JP Acosta & Derek Hunt
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate it. I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:09.2 | All right. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from still the A-for-mentioned Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:18.1 | Joining me from VaughalRepport.com, it's Ryan. |
| 0:21.1 | Sylvia for Falls Hoop Hour. Ryan, good evening, sir. How are you? I'm doing good. We were just talking, maybe a little bit more free time on my hands. Now that basketball season's over and it's just baseball. But at the same time, it's sad to see both of those seasons and just as someone that, that covered both the teams. |
| 0:37.5 | There are two fun teams to be around. |
| 0:38.8 | So, you know, on one hand, going to enjoy a little bit more time, I guess, not on the road, but on the other hand, you know, it'll be weird next year, already thinking about going to a game and a Zekeye Ziegler, Jemai Meishak, and those guys aren't there on the men's side and on the woman's side, like a jewel spear isn't there. |
| 0:55.6 | It'll be weird. It's kind of the end of an era. We say all that, but the fifth year, who knows? Who knows who might come back of this group? We'll see. I mean, obviously Tennessee, especially the men's program, would love that. I mean, if that big if, the biggest if of all time, but if that happened, like, I mean, Tennessee has got to be like possibly the favorite to win the entire thing next year. |
| 1:17.6 | Like the amount of stuff that comes back, good God. |
| 1:20.6 | But who else they had in the portal? |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah, but I mean, it's, it's a massive if. |
| 1:25.7 | But yeah, if you're a Tennessee fan, |
| 1:27.9 | you definitely want that to pass. |
| 1:29.7 | It would be kind of awkward, though, to some extent, |
| 1:32.8 | because you just, it feels like a sendoff, |
| 1:34.7 | especially like the final moments with Jem I and Z, |
| 1:37.2 | and it would be really weird. |
| 1:39.8 | Like it would, it, the one who it wouldn't be would be gainy, |
| 1:43.1 | I feel like, just because he's just |
| 1:45.5 | gotten progressively better and better and it's like he could still like he could start next year |
| 1:50.7 | on this team and he could be um that final boss of like what would gainy look like with one more |
| 1:55.9 | year and i don't know like it's just the jemayans easy thing would just be, like, you welcomed them back, obviously. |
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