Mailbag Time! Answering your questions on Tennessee football, hoops, & baseball ... and holidays

GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It's New Mexico State week for the Tennessee football program, so GoVols247 decided to have a mailbag podcast -- and this one was an occasion. For the first time in, well, a long time, all three of us (Patrick Brown, Ben McKee and Ryan Callahan) came together for an episode, and we wanted to answer questions from our loyal GoVols247 subscribers hitting on all three Tennessee sports: Football -- How do we think Tennessee closes out the regular season? What staff changes should Josh Heupel make and what positions should the Vols prioritize in the transfer portal? What players need to make a leap in 2026? How will this season be remembered if Tennessee wins out? Where will Tennessee's 2026 recruiting class finish in the rankings? Hoops -- What will Rick Barnes do with the starting five? Baseball -- How will Josh Elander's first season in charge of the Vols look like and what will the pitching rotation be? We got some holiday questions as well and shared our favorite things and our rules for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Enjoy! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup welcome into the govalls 24 7 podcast I'm Patrick Brown. I'll be hosting this episode. It is not quite a special edition, but it is special in the sense that for the first time in a while, all three of us are here. I am joined by Ben McKee of Go-V's 247 and also Ryan Calhoun
0:58.2	having some fun here with the sound effects on the on our stream yard platform.
1:06.0	This is what happens and you guys let me host. But anyways, we have a mailbag
1:09.7	edition today. We're going to be answering questions from Goval 24-7 subscribers that we took on the checkerboard on Tuesday night
1:16.7	and Wednesday morning. And it will run the gamut from Tennessee football questions, both with
1:22.5	the looking at the end of the season with Tennessee having three regular season games left.
1:26.3	Also, the offseason should Josh Hypo make any staff changes season games left. Also the off season,
1:31.8	should Josh Hypo make any staff changes? Emphasis on the transfer portal. Where should Tennessee go from there? There are some basketball questions as well that Ben will answer expertly for us.
1:37.1	Tennessee is playing North Florida on Wednesday night. In the Chas Lanier, it's the game that was the
1:43.1	result of the Chas Lanier deal. Just kidding, not really. But that's what's happening on Wednesday night at Thompson Bowling Arena. We also have some baseball questions. And there are some recruiting questions too for Ryan Callahan as we are, what, a few weeks away from the early signing period, Ryan? Three weeks from today. So, yeah, first of all, before we get to the questions how are each of you
2:01.6	doing ryan we booed you so we'll let you go first uh yeah doing okay it's uh yeah been a bit a long
2:07.2	time since we've watched a football game i feel like so ready to get back into the swing of things
2:10.7	uh saturday yeah we watched a handful of games on saturday i did not enjoy watching lSU attempt
2:16.5	to play offense that was pretty miserable uh so i didn't get to watch as much as I would like things to YouTube TV,
2:22.2	but, you know, there's that. Yeah, that's true. So Ben, are you, are you a YouTube TV guy? Are you
2:28.1	struggling like all of us are? I am. I'm frustrated, but I'm not struggling as much as most are because I just use my parents
2:37.6	to direct TV login to get on watch ESPN. So I've been able to watch the games, but the
2:43.8	ESPN app is just miserable to deal with. The quality of the actual video is horrendous.
2:52.1	The app logs you out.
2:53.4	It kicks you out back to the main screen time and time again.
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