Tennessee's Path To 10-2, Vols Add Key Blue Chip DL Dereon Albert & More, & Final Four vs. CFP For Vols With VFL Griffin Hadley
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is Tennessee's Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by VFL Griffin Hadley to talk about what the most realistic path is to 10-2 for Tennessee football this season, more impressive: three straight Elite Eights or another trip to Omaha for Vols, Tennessee stays hot on recruiting trail and adds two blue-chip defenders and a three-star corner, and would you rather: a Final Four or another CFP for Tennessee next season.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Griffin Hadley
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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. |
| 0:09.2 | All right. We're back here on the Chase Thomas podcast from Still the A for mention Chase Thomas. |
| 0:13.1 | Coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee. Everything School HQ. |
| 0:17.1 | Joining me back after a week away, the world traveler. |
| 0:23.1 | Busy man, he's swimming all over America. |
| 0:26.3 | Many forget Griffin Hadley, VFL, swimming and diving. |
| 0:28.6 | Griffin, are you doing, sir? |
| 0:29.8 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:31.4 | Like you said, Chase, I was traveling. |
| 0:35.4 | Not all over the world, rather, more just, I would have loved for that to be the case, but took a trip across the country with family and friends and all of that good stuff to California, was enjoying the sun, the beach, the weather, all of those good things. |
| 0:45.6 | So, but happy to be back in everything School HQ here in Knoxville, Tennessee, talks and balls, always a good time. |
| 0:51.8 | Yes, you're back in Everything School HQ. |
| 0:53.8 | We've got, this is the last |
| 0:55.2 | month, July 1st now. It's the last month before things get really crazy. Fall camp will be here at the |
| 1:00.4 | end of the month and then it's all systems go for all kinds of matches. But I mean, you have all |
| 1:05.1 | kinds of different recruiting things popping up and the class will be filled out in the football |
| 1:09.9 | side of things really, really soon. |
| 1:12.1 | And we got Clarence Masamba video over there overseas from a friend of the pod, |
| 1:16.8 | Ryan Shumpert. So I got to get excited about that. And he'll be on campus, I think, next month. |
| 1:20.5 | So all kinds of great stuff all across Tennessee athletics. And then, of course, you know, |
| 1:25.6 | Tennessee baseball trying to close out this roster. And over the next week, we'll have to figure out Tony Vitell will be the most on edge college baseball coach during the MLB draft for all of it because every single round matters to Tennessee. It's like, Otis Dalton Bargo. Where does he go? How late does he go? How late does Reese Chavon go? how late does Cannon Peoples go? Like, I mean, it's just going to be Tony Vitello from the beginning to the end is going to be sweating what happens in the MLB draft. But it's going to be fun. So it's the best part of everything in school HQ, never a dull day. No, there's never a down moment. And I love that point about the MLB draft because it's a little bit of a different vibe |
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