Strength coach leaving Vols for NFL
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🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Patrick Brown (from his house and at undisclosed location across town) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss Tennessee strength coach Craig Fitzgerald’s move to the New York Giants and what that means for the Vols.
Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the game’s premier strength coaches, so there’s no way to sugarcoat his absence, but Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt has a solid track record of identifying good people for his staff. Hiring good people means you have to fight to keep them and often lose them, but that’s better than not having good people, right?
A move like this means there’s plenty to discuss, and much of that discussion is crammed neatly into this 15-minute chat.
The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released later in the week, unless major breaking news occurs before that point.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. So if y'all, West Rucker, welcoming you into the GoBalls 24-7 podcast, as you can tell by the truncated version of this intro, it is a breaking news podcast, not just me on this episode. |
| 0:27.5 | Also, Patrick Brown from across town. |
| 0:30.6 | Pat and I have some breaking news to get to so I guess I will go ahead and get to that Pat |
| 0:36.9 | First off welcome in man. What's the news? The news west is that Tennessee is losing strength coach Greg Fitzgerald to the New York |
| 0:48.1 | football Giants. |
| 0:51.2 | And so Tennessee now will be in the market for a new strength coach in one of the weirdest times to be in said market |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah, it's an interesting thing and before we get to that really quickly I will get to the to the actual statement from credit for |
| 1:03.6 | this to confirm this saying quote I want to thank head coach Jeremy |
| 1:07.2 | Prewt director of athletics fell former senior associate athletic director |
| 1:10.6 | Tyler Johnson our strength coach and the many student |
| 1:13.2 | athletes who have represented our program since the spring of 2018. |
| 1:16.8 | Tennessee is a first-class program and will continue to rise under Coach Pruitt |
| 1:20.6 | and Coach Fulmer's leadership. |
| 1:22.2 | We will forever be grateful for our time in Knoxville. |
| 1:25.1 | I will be returning to the NFL |
| 1:26.8 | and joining the New York Giants. |
| 1:28.4 | Thank you for everything. |
| 1:29.8 | And go Valls, end quote. |
| 1:31.3 | That is the statement from Craig Fitzgerald confirming that he is going |
| 1:34.7 | what we had been reporting earlier Thursday that he is going to the New York Giants and this is |
| 1:40.5 | I can't say shocking because Fitzgerald is a guy former NFL strength coach of the year came to Tennessee |
| 1:45.8 | from the Houston Texans and was a renowned guy when he got there and Tennessee's had a fight like |
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