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

PROVEN: Josh Heupel is GREAT With First-Year QBs, Faizon Brandon or George MacIntyre can IMPRESS

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

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4.8 • 797 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Tennessee Volunteers face a pivotal quarterback transition, but history under Josh Heupel suggests optimism—can Faizon Brandon or George MacIntyre uphold the Volunteers’ offensive prowess? Eric Cain breaks down striking stats from Heupel’s tenure, highlighting first-year quarterbacks’ successes and how returning offensive weapons like Braylon Staley, Mike Matthews, and running back Desean Bishop could ease the transition for Tennessee’s new signal-caller. Cain also explores pressing questions around possible quarterback platooning, recruiting fallout, and Tennessee baseball’s transfer portal strategy as several player departures shake up the roster. Key topics include replacing Tennessee baseball’s power bats, prioritizing bullpen upgrades, and identifying top high school prospects at risk in the MLB Draft. With the Volunteers’ football and baseball programs at a crossroads, find out what offseason moves and coaching history signal for the seasons ahead.

Transcript

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0:00.0

New quarterback, no problem for Josh Hypole. History tells us that.

0:11.3

You are locked on balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers.

0:16.9

Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Good Tuesday morning, everybody. Welcome

0:23.5

into it. This is Lockdown Falls and I am your host, Eric Kane. Tennessee baseball transfer portal

0:28.6

is officially open. A couple of departures on day one. Where are some areas that Tennessee baseball

0:33.9

could increase and better the roster for 2027, some areas they can attack.

0:38.3

We'll discuss that in segment number three.

0:39.9

We'll take your mailback questions, some on Tennessee baseball, a lot on Tennessee football,

0:43.9

coming up in segment number two.

0:45.1

But first, first year quarterbacks have been no issue for Josh Heipel throughout the course

0:50.0

of his head coaching career.

0:51.2

And I understand there's a lot of anxiety there and there's some,

0:54.5

the unknown is what's scary. And that's why nobody's really giving Tennessee the benefit of the

0:59.0

doubt because Tennessee could have, you know, was in talks to go get Sam Levitt and didn't.

1:04.1

Very early on, Tennessee was thought to be a team in play for Brandon Sorsby, or at least they

1:08.9

kind of looked around there and decided

1:11.4

that they were going to pass on that because the price tag was too much. And obviously, that

1:15.5

was a good decision, you know, in retrospect. And so nobody's really giving Josh Hypo a lot

1:20.2

of credit here based on the team that he's got coming up, but because, well, you're going to go

1:25.8

with either a true freshman quarterback and phased on Brandon or you're going to go with either a true freshman quarterback and phazon Brandon,

1:28.1

or you're going to go with a redshirt freshman, George McIntyre, that had only nine pass attempts

1:33.1

last year during his true freshman season.

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