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All right. Hello. Welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Stale,

D.A. for mention Chase Thomas County live from Knoxville, Tennessee Everything School, H.Q.

Joining me from Ball Report.com, it's Ryan Sylvia, the one and only Ryan covering the Tennessee

Volunteers Athletics here in Knoxville, Tennessee that many do forget.

Ryan Sylvia, good evening, sir.

How are you?

I'm doing good.

It's been a busy week since we last did this, Lady Ball's two transfers, you know,

casual five-star nata-ment committed since the last time this. Lady Balls, two transfers, you know, casual five-star

native men committed since the last time we talked. And so it's been, it's been interesting.

It's been fun. It's been cool to cover both men's women's women's women's women's

women's women's women's women's women's women's close closes today. But, you know, it's been a, a fun time to cover these

sports and see not really anyone departing for the most part, but a lot of people coming into

Knoxville besides, you know, the football into Nico and all that drama. Yeah. I mean,

that's not even mentioning dark mode back for

Tennessee baseball on Tuesday night. They brought that back to shake the bad vibes from the last

couple home weekends. You've got Darius Adams' Zoom calls for Rick Barnes and company. But my question is,

hey, what do I have to do to get on Rick Barnes' Zoom call list? Like, when do I get an invite? Like, can I get in after Darius Adams? Can we, can we check in? I'd love to check in with Coach Barnes and his staff via Zoom. If I was an option, I don't, I don't know what I have to do to get on that list, but it seems like a fun list. Like, add me to the list. I want to, I want to see where we're at here. It's been a, like, it's a weird thing to see how, how Zooms have kind of, uh, become such a big part of college recruitment. It's almost like the visit before the visit now. Like you saw Rodney Rice, who Tennessee, of course, missed on with USC. well before before he took that USC visit, he kind of had that Zoom with them. He had a Zoom out, I think, with Gonzaga, too. So it's like if you're not in the immediate area and got some interest, hey, let's meet in the Zoom. Let's talk it over. Let's figure this out and see if it's worth it for both of our times to actually meet in person. So it's just been kind of weird to see how that's become such a popular, I guess, way to start recruitments almost. But Darius Adams, it's good to see him back in the fold and testing an afternoon. It feels like a guy that they could need if you look at the roster right now. Well, that's what's so interesting because that one just came out of nowhere. Let's start with Darius Adams here, Ryan, because I, he was someone that you just forget about because recruiting and just so many things that happened since Darius Adams ended up at Yukon because he's been committed. I don't have any in front of me, but he's been committed to Yukon for a minute. Like, it's been a while that he made that. Because I think he even committed to Yukon before Marriott, Evans committed to Tennessee. Like, I think it's been a while for him. But it was someone that Tennessee, I think, thought they had a good shot at, right? Like, this was someone early on we're building our board for this class that Darius Adams is one of the highest sought after guys. And clearly, um, a good dude to go after with Yukon, uh, at the time being the defending back to back national champs. And they get them. So you're like, oh, well, what can you do? You lost to, uh, the defendant two-time defending national champions, Yukon for, for Darius Adams. But then, like, we're just so late in the game. Like you said, the transfer portal window closes here tomorrow for, for basketball. And Tennessee is like, they're at the razor thin area of closing down their roster. I mean, it's quietly filling up. They've got a couple spots left, but they keep missing on the Chaslinier spot, right? Like, you had McNeely out of the gate here. You had Rodney Rice.

And, left, but they keep missing on the Chaslinier spot, right? Like, you had McNeely out of the gate here.

You had Rodney Rice. And now you're just kind of like, I don't know, the Lafayette kid's still out there, I think, as of this recording. But there are also just so many people in the portal

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