Tennessee Moves On From Tim Banks, Vols Lose Cade Phillips For The Season & Tennessee's SEC Place With Saturday Down South's Ethan Stone
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
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's decision to fire defensive coordinator Tim Banks, where the Vols will go for his replacement, the Vols losing Cade Phillips for the remainder of the season, and where Tennessee fits among a down SEC in men's hoops this season.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: 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. |
| 0:08.6 | All right. Hello. Welcome back to |
| 0:10.0 | another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still. The A for mention Chase Thomas |
| 0:14.4 | from Tee live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:17.6 | Joining me from Saturdaydownsouth.com. It's Ethan Stone. Ethan, good evening, sir. How are you? Chase, |
| 0:24.6 | to be totally honest with you, brother, I've been better as a Chicago Bears fan and as a Tennessee |
| 0:30.0 | athletics fan. Just at this moment in time, it's been better. Just a calendar a year ago, |
| 0:35.5 | I'd say it's been better. |
| 0:39.9 | Tony Vitello was still the head coach, the Vols. |
| 0:42.3 | I guess the Bears have gotten considerably better against them, |
| 0:43.7 | so I can't really complain too much. |
| 0:45.7 | But that loss to the Packers, that hurt. |
| 0:47.3 | It's like that. |
| 0:48.4 | Is it Danos? |
| 0:49.7 | What did it take? |
| 0:50.5 | What did it cost? |
| 0:55.3 | The Bears being a competent organization, it costs you everything else. |
| 0:57.3 | That's, this is all my fault. |
| 1:01.7 | I apologize deeply, Volnation, because it's, the Bears becoming good at football. |
| 1:05.3 | There had to be a little yin-yang thing going on there. |
| 1:07.7 | Tennessee Athletics had to go down. |
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