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Locked On Vols - Daily Podcast On Tennessee Volunteers Football & Basketball

JERSEY WATCH: Tennessee Football Showcase UPDATED Smokey Grey Uniforms | Uniform Fatigue?

Locked On Vols - Daily Podcast On Tennessee Volunteers Football & Basketball

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Tennessee Volunteers unveil striking Smokey Grey uniforms honoring the armed forces and Davy Crockett—but are fans growing weary of yearly alternates? Eric Cain spotlights the evolution of Tennessee Football’s jersey tradition, debates the legacy of orange-on-white classics, and spotlights the transition back to Adidas. As Tennessee prepares to dominate New Mexico State on Salute to Service Day, questions arise about fan excitement and key uniform changes ahead. Eric Cain also provides an exclusive fall baseball report, previewing Tennessee’s revamped roster under Josh Elander and naming standout players like Teagan Kuhns and Henry Ford as potential leaders. The episode wraps up with mailbag insights on bowl projections, the Legend Bey recruiting saga, and updates on Jermod McCoy’s status. Can Tennessee capitalize on this critical stretch and build confidence for upcoming SEC battles?

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0:00.0

Saturday is the Smokey Gray football game.

0:02.9

Are you tired of the Smokey Grays?

0:10.4

You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers,

0:15.7

part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:20.2

Hey, what's up, everybody? Happy Tuesday morning and welcome into Lockdown, Volge. Your number one spot for Tennessee Football News Entertainment, your number one listen and watch each every single morning. I am your host, Eric Kane. Can't thank you enough for being here. Appreciate the support. Appreciate your time. And you know it. We're a part of Lockdown Podcast Network that is now the number one sports podcast network. How about that? And it's all thanks to you, certainly you, every dayers. Fun show coming up. Again, I'm Eric Kane, a member of the Ballquest.com team here in town and your host of Lockdown Balls. Mailback questions, every dayers, get to hear from you in segment number three. A fall baseball report.

0:55.0

A lot of you guys have been asking, what's the Tennessee baseball team look like now in the Josh Elander era?

1:00.4

Going to talk about that in segment number two, but first, the smoky gray uniforms have made their triumphal return,

1:05.9

and they will be debuted.

1:07.1

This iteration of them will be debuted Saturday and Armed Force's Day as well and it's

1:15.6

going to be against New Mexico State here at Neeland Stadium. So my simple question is this. Are you tired of the Smokey Grays? So Smokey Grays originally made their appearance back in the, I mean, it was the Butch Jones era, right?

1:29.6

I mean, a couple of different times they wore them against Florida.

1:32.0

I remember that, wore them against Georgia.

1:34.2

It felt like Tennessee lost those games every time they kind of wore those jerseys.

1:38.4

And it felt like they wore those jerseys to kind of get a little bit, a little bit more juice, right?

1:43.0

And then Tennessee wore the jerseys, brought him back in 2022 bit more juice right and and then tennessee wore the jerseys

1:44.9

brought him back in 2022 warm down on the bayou against lSU and tennessee of course just smoked them

1:50.7

and that was a a really really nice win war him next year against um i forgot who they wore them against

1:57.5

in 2003 in 2003 last year war um against i wore them against i wore them against ets u

2:03.3

i think in 2023 last year wore them in a non-conference game and this year wearing them a non-conference

2:08.9

game on point is they don't wear them against you know big time competition much anymore with the

2:13.2

exception of 2022s lSU game um i'm not the biggest uniform guy. I'm just not. I never really

2:20.3

have been, but I understand I'm in the minority there because you guys care about uniforms.

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