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

Reacting to the good and bad from Tennessee's opening loss to West Virginia

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

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4.8797 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tennessee's season opener didn't go the way the Vols hoped. West Virginia beat UT 40-14 on Saturday, which Josh Ward covers on today's show. It's presented by The Athletic. Save 40% on your first-year subscription - that's only $2.99 per month - at TheAthletic.com/rockytalk. Some highlights for today:  • Hear what coach Jeremy Pruitt says about his team's performance and the play of quarterback Jarrett Guarantano, who was the guy for Tennessee until the very end of the game. • David Ubben of The Athletic joins the show to discuss the Vols' offensive line, Guarantano and Pruitt's first postgame press conference. • Josh discusses a few of the positives for Tennessee in the Vols' first game. • It was a very good weekend for the SEC overall. Josh has the results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are Locked-on Balls, your Daily Tennessee Volunteers Podcast, part of the Locked-on

0:05.6

Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:09.6

Welcome into Locked-on Balls, the Daily Tennessee Podcast.

0:13.6

My name is Josh Ward.

0:14.7

Thanks for being here on the Labor Day edition of the show.

0:18.1

It is the first Monday after the opening week of the college football season. There's a

0:22.5

lot to cover on today's show. There will be a lot to talk about this week. And of course,

0:27.4

today's show will be around Tennessee's opening game against West Virginia. In the end,

0:31.8

it did not go so well for Tennessee. There are positives to take away from the game, and we'll get

0:36.2

to that coming up in just a moment.

0:38.3

West Virginia beats Tennessee 40 to 14 on Saturday.

0:41.8

You'll hear from Jeremy Pruitt on today's show.

0:44.3

What he had to say about the overall performance of his team, what he said about the quarterback

0:49.2

position.

0:50.1

Jared Garantano played the entire way until Keller Christ went in to hand the ball off at the end of the game.

0:56.5

The quarterback battle had been a big topic leading up to August and through August.

1:01.4

The entire time I thought that Jared Garantano was ahead, I thought that he would start,

1:05.0

and I thought that he would play all the way through as long as he gave Tennessee's coaches no reasons to make a change.

1:11.3

And that's what happened on Saturday.

1:13.0

I thought Garantano was good enough for Tennessee.

1:16.1

He needs to be better.

1:17.0

There are some things to work on.

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