Matt Ray, Volquest l Tennessee 2025 & 2026 Recruiting Updates l George MacIntyre Senior Season l Boo Carter True Freshman STAR
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 26 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 Volquest's Matt Ray to talk about the latest inside information on Tennessee football's 2025 and 2026 recruiting classes, Samari Matthews and Leo Delaney updates, if Vols will land '25 DL Isaiah Campbell, Boo Carter's immediate stardom, Georga MacIntyre's senior season, David Sanders as a Day 1 starter at Tennessee in 2025 and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Matt Ray
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate, I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:09.1 | All right. Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast where I am still the A for mention. Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School HQ. |
| 0:19.2 | Joining me over there today from |
| 0:21.5 | BallQuest.com. Matt, Ray, Matt, good afternoon, sir. How are you? I'm great, Jason. |
| 0:27.3 | Glad to finally get to sit down with you and talk a little recruiting, little Tennessee football. |
| 0:32.0 | Little Tennessee football, little Tennessee recruiting. It was a, it was a big weekend |
| 0:35.9 | with a lot of recruits. How many total were in the |
| 0:39.1 | building with 225, six and seven, right? Well over 150. I don't know that there's an exact total |
| 0:46.6 | to be known right yet, but well over 150 kids. Just a massive weekend, back-to-back weekends for |
| 0:53.6 | Tennessee, really. |
| 0:54.9 | So how does that work for you? I mean, behind the scenes, like with that many kids coming in, like, do you in Austin split it up in terms of who we're going to talk to? It's a little overwhelming where you're like, hey, uh, hype on staff. Let's, let's calm it down a little bit. This is a lot for me to keep up with this weekend. |
| 1:10.5 | Yeah, it's, I mean, you know, it's a lot. |
| 1:12.1 | You just kind of have to roll with the punches on a |
| 1:14.1 | weekend like that. You know, you try to reach out to guys ahead of time, you know, just to get a feel for, you know, are you going to be here? You know, what's the plan? What do things look like for you after the visit, you know, that way you can get in touch with him. |
| 1:26.6 | You try to kind of set things up. |
| 1:28.9 | And you want to get as much information in the instant reaction as you can. So it's important early to have a good relationship with some of these guys that are coming to campus. So, you know, it flows a little bit more freely. But there's some guys that are just to make it in that you most likely haven't talked to before. |
| 1:47.2 | You know, so you have to, you know, create new relationships and those things. |
| 1:51.9 | It's a lot, but we try to, you know, just roll with the punches and split it up and go about it as we can. |
| 1:52.9 | Who do you have the best rapport with the 2026 class? |
| 1:56.4 | Who do you feel like you know the best coming into that Tennessee's targeting here? |
| 2:01.6 | Yeah, you know, I would say not necessarily targeting, but committed already, obviously, Faith on Brandon. |
| 2:06.8 | Hmm. When you have someone like Faith on Brandon has been to campus now, double digit times as |
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