Tennessee Adds Two Combo Guards, Intrigue Around Clarence Massamba & Lady Vols Year 2 Roster Outlook With Vol Report's Ryan Sylvia. Plus, Bradley Central Head Football Coach Damon Floyd!
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by Vol Report's Ryan Sylvia to talk about Tennessee adding Amaree Abram and Clarence Massamba this week, if the Vols will miss McKneely or Rice, Lady Vols Year 2 outlook and much more. Then, Bradley Central’s Damon Floyd joins the program to talk about the Bradley Central Bears, what happened in 2024 vs. 2023 seasons, how they rebuild in 2025, spring and summer position battles, and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guest: Ryan Sylvia, Damon Floyd
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate, I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:08.5 | All right. Hello. And welcome back to a another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still. |
| 0:12.7 | The A for mention Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee. Everything School HQ. |
| 0:18.2 | Join me from ball report.com. It is Ryan, Sylvia. Ryan, good evening, sir. How are you? I'm doing good. Can't complain we were talking back in Knoxville. So it's good to be back here in the hometown Knoxville, I guess. So I'm feeling good as we're entering, I guess, the latter stage of the transfer portal for both football and men's women's basketball, it feels like. Yeah, it feels like everything's kind of dying down. We'll see, like, I think Tennessee just got added to a list of, like, the Cal transfer receiver. So we'll see if they actually visit, because we've seen Tennessee link to several wide receivers in the portal and they all have not visited. So they did land defensive tackle, which is good. I'm at a Grand Valley State that I don't care. If there are any Garner target someone, I'm like, all right, I'm in. I'm in. I think they're going to be okay. It's probably a good way to live. But Tennessee men's basketball feels like it's done. One more spot theoretically, but I think you and I both know kind of where that last spot |
| 1:11.4 | it's probably going to go if it maybe announced sooner or rather than later ultimately. |
| 1:16.7 | But with 12 bodies, man, this is going to be a vastly different depth chart than what we |
| 1:23.1 | just saw a season ago where Tennessee was at times where it's like, oh, we got seven right now. |
| 1:27.9 | That's not going to be a problem. |
| 1:29.0 | I don't think in 2526 with Tennessee adding two more bodies this week, Ryan, Sylvia. |
| 1:33.9 | Yeah, it's a deep roster and you addressed some positions of need, which I think is good. |
| 1:37.6 | You needed a two card really badly, and you got two of them. |
| 1:40.0 | And we'll see how ready the freshman coming in from France, Masamba, is ready to go in year one. |
| 1:48.1 | But you have to feel good about Amari Abraham. |
| 1:50.6 | It's a guy with the SAC experience as a freshman. |
| 1:53.0 | It's a couple years ago. |
| 1:54.1 | And then playing the ACC for a handful of games and then started every game at Louisiana Tech. |
| 1:58.8 | So it's a guy that's experienced. |
| 2:00.1 | It's a guy that can shoot the ball, plays good defense. |
| 2:02.6 | Rick Barnes seemed to like what he brings on the defensive end, |
| 2:05.2 | the tenacity he has there. |
| 2:06.4 | So it fits. |
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