Tennessee Baseball's Offensive Woes, Ja'Kobi Gillespie Favorite New Vol & Vols Secondary Hype With Rocky Top Insider's Ryan Schumpert & Saturday Down South's Ethan Stone
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
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🗓️ 6 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 Rocky Top Insider's Ryan Schumpert and Saturday Down South's Ethan Stone to talk about Tennessee baseball's offensive woes, why Ja'Kobi Gillespie will be Ethan's favorite new Vol, why Tennessee's secondary will be elite again, Rod Clark's replacement under Rick Barnes, Tony Vitello's Vols missing in the transfer portal on the pitching front and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Ryan Schumpert, Ethan Stone
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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. |
| 0:08.8 | All right. Hello. And we're back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still, the A for mention. |
| 0:14.0 | Chase Thomas Pondee live from Knoxville, Tennessee. Everything School HQ. |
| 0:18.0 | Joining me over there from Saturday Down South. He's wrote, wrote, written 7,000 billion words on the SEC college basketball transfer portal, new roster editions and everything else that people should go check out on Saturday down South if they have not already. It's Ethan Stone. Ethan, good evening, sir. How are you? |
| 0:37.2 | I'm doing great. Yeah, it's been a pretty decent amount of time on that. And then everybody switched where they were going, almost immediately. Duke Miles decommitted, like, right after I hit sent. And stuff has already changed. And I knew that was going to happen. Obviously, the portal is going to keep going to late May, maybe even a little past that. But yeah, I'm excited about |
| 0:57.7 | SEC basketball in the month of May. That should tell you all you need to know about me. |
| 1:00.9 | Did Duke Miles reconnect somewhere else, or is he still, is he back on the hunt? |
| 1:05.1 | He hasn't yet. For the third time, he is searching for a new team to saw season. |
| 1:09.7 | Goodness gracious. Like, you could just be, |
| 1:11.5 | you could have been of all. You could be starting on a really good team. It's just, what are we doing? |
| 1:15.6 | What are we doing here? Also here of rocky top insider.com, Ryan Shumpert, here to talk about |
| 1:22.3 | what does that star depth look like behind Boo Carter with Colton Hood in the fray here out of Colorado and |
| 1:29.2 | not a whole lot else on on Rocky Top over the weekend Ryan good evening how are you I'm doing well |
| 1:34.3 | you know asking what are we doing here talking about the star depth uh in May but I was saying |
| 1:40.6 | what are we doing here a lot over at Lindsay Nelson Stadium over the weekend too so uh just just a good common theme well what are we doing here a lot over at Lindsay Nelson Stadium over the weekend, too. So just a good common theme. |
| 1:46.7 | Well, what are we doing here? |
| 1:49.1 | It's pretty wild because it's one of those things. |
| 1:54.8 | I'm glad we don't do these pods on Sunday because I think we would feel differently on Sundays than we do after 24 hours to kind of cool off and recuperate as to what we saw here over the weekend. |
| 2:08.4 | But three straight home loss series. |
| 2:10.3 | I mean, you're in uncharted territory here with the Tony Vitello era, weirdly enough, in a lot of ways. |
| 2:15.1 | But I was telling Matt last night on a pod divided, Ryan was like, |
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