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My name is Josh Ward.

Thank you for being here today.

Today's show will begin with the offensive coordinator search at Tennessee, and you probably feel like you've

heard that several times over the last few weeks, and you have, today's is going to be a little

different, because today's discussion is going to be about the hire. Tennessee hiring Jim Cheney

on Tuesday night, and I think it's a big get for Tennessee staff and for Tennessee's football program.

I'll talk about why. The news came out last night, courtesy of Patrick Brown of Govalls247.com.

He's going to join the show in segment number two. And I almost feel like the first couple

of segments, they're going to be about the offense coordinator higher in the news that Jim Cheney is leaving Georgia to come back to Tennessee.

Almost feels like a disservice to Tennessee's basketball team because the men's team rolled again on Tuesday night.

This time against Missouri, the falls had to come back in the first half.

They did that and they cruised in the second half.

Tennessee's basketball

team is playing at such a high level. I don't think anybody's playing better basketball in college

basketball right now. But Tennessee gets the win. In segment number three, you'll hear from Rick

Barnes. He'll talk about how Tennessee was pushed early on and the way the players responded.

Jordan Bone continues to play so well,

so does Jordan Bowden coming off the bench, and Lamonte Turner hit a couple of three. So I'll get

to that in segment number three. So the show will begin with the news of Jim Cheney being hired to

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