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All right. We're back here on the Chase Thomas podcast from Still, the A for mention Chase Thomas from Tee, Live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ.

Joining me from Rocky Top Insider. It's Ryan Shumper. Ryan, good evening, sir. How are you?

I'm doing well. Glad to be back on here

one day later. Glad you're recovered from some Memorial Day stomach, stomach issues, and

ready to talk a little Tennessee baseball and basketball. Glad you're a longtime respecter of HIPAA,

Ryan Sheper. Also here, Caleb Jereau of The Daily Times. And I just said it fast because I'm going to butcher it because we just talked about before we started that there's just no way. Because there's occasion way of Caleb pronouncing his last name that is not fair to me. I'm just going to go ahead and take a stand here on his first appearance on this very program that it's asking too much of a host to be able to enunciate one of his guests here.

And it's hard, Caleb. I can't do it.

Words or it's your hard, Chase, but I appreciate you having me out.

It was good enough, close enough. I'll take it.

I will respect HIPAA, so I won't talk about anybody's, you know,

illnesses or spinning water out on the floor before we started this recording.

But, uh, yeah.

I don't know who could have possibly done that.

Someone really just doesn't have a whole lot of self-control, I guess.

Oh my God. What a start. What a start. But, um, and Caleb is also at the daily time. So make sure you go subscribe and keep up with Caleb's work there each and every day. Ryan, as we get into today's because we are a day behind of when we usually do the Tennessee ball sports guys here.

It actually worked out because we have a day to kind of get comfortable and think about Tennessee's regional path and then knowing who they'll have in the Super Regional if Arkansas makes it out of their regional,

which I was listening to somebody the other day who said that Arkansas last time they were this exact seed or something they didn't get out of the regional, I want to say.

And Vanderbilt, the last time they were the number one overall seed, they did not get out of their regional either.

And I think ETSU has a 30-something percent chance of getting out of Vanderbilt's bracket. So that's going to be great on the Vanderbilt side of things. But when you look at the regional, now that you've had some time to really think about this, do you feel like this is a good regional draw for UT ultimately with the Griffin Merritt invitational, what we're calling it, for into the program, Griffin Merritt, this weekend.

Is it a good one?

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