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My name is Josh Ward.

Thank you for being here today, as today's show will be a mix of, Tennessee's football team on the field and Tennessee

basketball, as the Vols have a game tonight, Wednesday night, on the road against Cincinnati.

I'll get to recruiting here in the first segment.

I'm not going to go too deep into it because, honestly, a lot of what I talk about here in the

first segment will be outdated by the end of the day.

So on tomorrow's show, Thursday's show, I will have

more on Tennessee's signing day, or at least the first day of the signing period, because

we will know what will have happened at that point. So I'll get to recruiting here, some names

to pay attention to an update on Darnell Washington, the top player on Tennessee's board,

as it still appears to be a Tennessee versus Georgia battle with other schools still working there.

Bama, Florida, and Miami have been in the picture as well. An update on him and some other guys to pay attention to.

And then also a big picture conversation about Tennessee's recruiting, how it compares to the other schools in the SEC, and what the focus should be

right now for Tennessee. I'll get to that in segment number one. In segment number two,

Tennessee linebacker Daniel Batuli talks about the importance of this bowl game, Tennessee trying to

finish strong, Tennessee trying to finish this season with a six-game winning streak.

You'll hear him talk about that. And then as Tennessee

is out there practicing, I'll go over a few names of players who could really benefit from

practice this month. The extra practices you get heading into the bowl game, I don't think we should

make too much of what it can do, but there's a benefit. I'll talk about some of the guys who it

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