Tennessee Lady Vols Stun UConn, Kim Caldwell's Year 1 Grade & Gainey Over Mashack For Vols With Vol Report's Ryan Sylvia, Volquest's Grant Ramey & WATE's Reece Van Haaften
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
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 beating UConn on Thursday night (2:00), how the Lady Vols beat the Huskies, & Kim Caldwell's biggest win thus far at Tennessee. Then, Volquest's Grant Ramey sits down with Chase to talk about how Tennessee beat Missouri (24:45), if Jordan Gainey should start over Jahmai Mashack, Igor Milicic Jr.'s huge game, and how Tennessee will fare against Oklahoma. To wrap, WATE's Reece Van Haaften joins the program to talk about Tennessee over Missouri (55:00), Year 1 for Kim Caldwell with the Lady Vols and the offensive line question for Tennessee football this spring.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guest: Ryan Sylvia, Grant Ramey, Reece Van Haaften
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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 it. I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:09.0 | All right. Hello. Welcome back to way another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still. |
| 0:13.4 | The A for mention Chase Thomas Comtee live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:17.9 | Joining me from ballreport.com. Go subscribe. Ballreport.com. Today, if you're not already, Ryan, Sylvia is here. Ryan, good morning, sir. How are you? I'm doing well. It was a really fun game last night. It's just energy from the lady balls. So it's kind of transferred over to a high energy morning. We just talked to Rick Barnes, and he was excited about it. |
| 0:39.4 | So his wife was excited about it. |
| 0:41.0 | They kind of talked about the game last night. |
| 0:42.9 | And so it's just kind of been good vibes on campus. |
| 0:45.1 | It kind of feels like that Alabama went in football from a few years back |
| 0:49.5 | where, you know, you see a young coach get over the hump and the arch rival with the coach that's |
| 0:55.4 | been there forever. That's caused so many issues for you. And finally, you get over that hump |
| 1:01.0 | so early in one of your coach's careers. I hadn't considered the Alabama 2020 component, |
| 1:07.4 | but that's a good pull. I mean, it's also kind of funny like how crazy the um the turnaround was |
| 1:12.8 | uh because uh we went from oh wow what an awesome woman my wife and i talked about it to oh we got |
| 1:19.5 | to go to the basement because uh we have a crazy tornado warning where your phone goes off and you're |
| 1:24.1 | like what's happening and i think they were like didn't they keep people people? Were you stuck in Food City Center last night after the game for that? |
| 1:31.8 | We weren't stuck because we were just waiting for Camine G now to come and talk of the presser. |
| 1:36.6 | But there was a moment where every single media member had their phone get the alert at the same exact time. |
| 1:41.8 | And I kind of wish it happened like in the middle of the presser because it would have been kind of funny. |
| 1:48.8 | We were like the audio at the arena that was like, hey, you either need to go now or wait here for 30 minutes. |
| 1:59.2 | But like, if you wait any longer, then you're going to be stuck out there. |
| 2:03.5 | So it was definitely a kind of a weird moment. |
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