Why is Jim Knowles at Tennessee?

It was the vision.

It was a sell by Josh Hyple.

They got him through the door.

Jim Null spoke to the media for the first time.

Had a lot of great things to say.

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no fork needed vanilla e cakey flavor caffeinated kick and no kick, and no sugar. It's party time. Now you can order it, 5-hour energy.com or on Amazon. I'm your host, Eric Kane, a member of thevolkwest.com team here in town covering your Tennessee volunteers. Appreciate you guys for being here. Big show coming up here today. Jim Null spoke to the media. The defensive new additions to that staff

spoke to the media. Anthony Poindexter, Andrew Jackson, Derek Jones, all those guys spoke to the media

yesterday. We're going to focus on Jim Noles here on today's show. The best from Jim Noles,

what he had to say about Josh Heiple, what he had to say about Chas Coleman, who was the

Prize Transfer Portal edition for Tennessee this offseason, why he decided to retain William Minge and Rodney Garner. We're going to hear from Jim Knowles here in segment number one. Jim Knowles bought the numbers. How quickly can Tennessee accelerate that learning curve of his defense, where if you look at the numbers, usually it takes a couple of years in order to finalize things. You don't want to wait around a couple years. Well, the fact that Jim Nulls

brought several coaches that he's familiar with and players at all three levels of the defense,

that will accelerate some things. We'll tell you how and we'll tell you what he had to say

coming up in segment number two. And basketball stays hot. A win against Oklahoma,

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