Tennessee Smacks Alabama In SEC Tournament, Zakai Zeigler 5th Year Questions & Jermod McCoy Top Playmaker Snub With Vol Report's Ryan Sylvia. Plus, Calhoun's Clay Stephenson!
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 76 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 Alabama in the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Zakai Zeigler suing for an additional year of being able to play college basketball, the return of Talaysia Cooper for the Lady Vols, Jermod McCoy snubbed in ESPN Top 25 Playmakers list, if the Vols will play two QBs early and often this season and much more. Then, Calhoun Yellow Jackets head football coach Clay Stephenson joins the program to talk about his state championship season (50:00), how it happened, the rise to the top after a tough 1-3 start, beating Jefferson in the title game, summer offseason work and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guest: Ryan Sylvia, Clay Stephenson
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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. |
| 0:08.5 | All right. Hello. And welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still. |
| 0:12.8 | The A for mention Chase Thomas going to be live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:17.0 | Join me over there from vaulreport.com. It's Ryan. Sylvia. Ryan, good evening, sir. How are you? I'm doing good. It's, it's Hoover time per, you know, the baseball tournament, baseball star. So it's been fun. Tennessee got to, you know, win number one under their belt. So it's been fun to, I guess, catch up with what's going on in the SEC tournament. Ryan, we can be honest here on this very program. |
| 0:39.0 | We're taping this late on a Wednesday. |
| 0:40.9 | It was fun for a while. |
| 0:42.8 | The last 30 minutes were, um, |
| 0:45.4 | they were, |
| 0:46.3 | they were unbelievable. |
| 0:48.1 | I can only describe it as unbelievable. |
| 0:50.5 | Pitching changes from Alabama side of things. |
| 0:53.6 | Pinch hits, the base is loaded on Tennessee's side of things. |
| 0:57.4 | Giving up some runs there on the top of the night to drag this thing out a little bit more. |
| 1:01.8 | Couldn't even get AJ through, who was awesome today. |
| 1:05.1 | That game, we had amazing pace, right, and Sylvia. |
| 1:08.1 | We were on our way to a nice, clean, normal Tennessee victory over |
| 1:12.5 | Alabama and then the last 30 minutes and the changes and everything else was just, |
| 1:18.5 | it was diabolical, Ryan Sylvia. It was, the pace of play was horrendous. You're right. It was fun. |
| 1:26.2 | I enjoyed watching most of the game. |
| 1:27.8 | It got to a point where it was like, |
| 1:29.6 | all right, |
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