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My name is Josh Ward.

Thank you for being here on today's show.

I'm excited for this one.

I'm going to get to Tennessee football here in the first couple of segments of the show, and then Tennessee basketball in the final segment as the Vols got a win at home against South Carolina on Saturday.

It was not a pretty one, but Tennessee got out of there with a win, and right now that's all you can ask for as Tennessee gets ready for another week coming up with back-to-back

SEC wins. In the final segment, you'll hear from Rick Barnes talking about Jordan Bowden's

shooting struggles, which continue. He really struggled against South Carolina, but the

vols got out of there with the win. So I'll talk about the good and the bad of that one. Before that,

though, the positive momentum for Tennessee football over the last week

and a half or so coming up on two weeks, the start of 2020, it really has been something.

And last week with the news of Trey Smith and Cade Mays transferring to Tennessee, got a lot of

attention. So in the first couple of segments of today's show, you're going to hear from

Cole Kublich of the SEC Network as he talks about Trey Smith, Tennessee's offensive line, and what the offensive line could be if Trey and Cade Mays are both playing this year, as Kate is, of course, going to apply for a waiver to be able to play right away after transferring in.

So that's coming up here in the first couple of segments of the show.

You may have heard the interview with Cole on Sports 180 on Friday.

We aired it there.

And if you did, I hope you'll listen to it again because I've actually listened to it a couple

of times through myself.

Listening to Cole talk about football, especially along the line of scrimmage,

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