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Locked On Vols - Daily Podcast On Tennessee Volunteers Football & Basketball

Tennessee Football Recruiting: Vols 2024 Class Update for Josh Heupel, Jake Merklinger & more

Locked On Vols - Daily Podcast On Tennessee Volunteers Football & Basketball

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What do the Tennessee Vols and head coach Josh Heupel currently stand in recruiting for the class of 2024? Four-star quarterback Jake Merklinger is the leader of the bunch – who else is he after to join the class right now? Matt Ray of Volquest joins Cainer on the show. Locked on Vols is your go-to Tennessee Volunteers podcast, available on YouTube or wherever you find your podcasts.  Catch Locked on Vols, wherever you find your podcasts. ▶️https://linktr.ee/cainer Subscribe to the Josh & Swain Newsletter ▶️ https://joshandswain.beehiiv.com/ Subscribe to the Locked on NFL Draft Buzz ▶️ https://lockedonpodcasts.com/newsletters/ Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! LinkedIn LinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. FanDuel Make Every Moment More. Place your first FIVE DOLLAR bet to get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in Free Bets – win or lose! Visit Fanduel.com/LockedOn today to get started FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It may be the football off season, but recruiting never stopped.

0:03.9

What's the latest with Tennessee football recruiting as we head into the summer months?

0:07.4

That is what you have to look forward to here on a Tuesday, Locked on Balls.

0:10.8

You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers.

0:16.6

Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team, every day.

0:27.6

What is up, everybody? Welcome into it.

0:31.9

This is Locked-on Balls, and I'm your host, Eric Kane.

0:34.9

Appreciate you being an everydayer making Locked-on Balls your first listen. We're a part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team, every

0:41.1

single day at underscore Caner. That's where you can find me on Twitter at Lockedon

0:45.2

Valls as well. Appreciate you guys. Subscribe to Lockdown Balls on the YouTube channel

0:49.1

and finding it wherever you get your podcast. I'm going to talk a lot of Tennessee recruiting here today. And I want to

0:55.1

bring on my guy Matt Ray, collie over at ValQuest.com to do just that. Matt, appreciate you joining

1:00.7

this, man. Eric, what's up, ma'am? All right, Matt, so tell us right now at the time of this

1:05.1

recording, everybody listening knows right now. I'm out of town, so I pre-recorded a lot of this stuff at the time of this recording tennessee

1:10.9

has 11 commits a pretty pretty decent class of four-star prospects and some really nice complimentary

1:17.5

high-in three-star prospects a tennessee is top 10 at number nine at the time of this recording

1:22.9

for the 2024 industry rankings over at on three what do you like like about this class and what still needs to happen?

1:30.1

Yeah, you know, I think early again in this class, you see Tennessee trusting some

1:34.3

evaluations on some guys.

1:35.8

And I like that a lot because I think, I think historically, not just at Tennessee,

1:41.3

but other coaching stats have got lost in the star ratings and this staff has trusted their evaluations and seen them pay off look back to a guy like Nathan Laycock last year. We've talked about him on the show here before. But, you know, just a guy like Jeremiah's heard. Like, let's start there. The lowest ranked guy in the class currently just has some things that

2:02.5

nobody else in the class is going to have, right? I mean, a legitimate six foot eight,

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