Tennessee Transfer Portal Storylines, Huge Nate Ament Vols Update, & Dean Curley's Vols Struggles With Jack Foster & Ryan Sylvia. Plus, Farragut's Geoff Courtney!
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 105 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 Omaha Productions' Jack Foster to talk about the latest in the transfer portal with Tennessee Volunteers football (3:00), AJ Russell's weekend role, big struggles from Dean Curley of late, Ariel Antigua's SS role going forward, and much more. Then, Vol Report's Ryan Sylvia joins the program to talk about the latest in Nate Ament sweepstakes (50:00), a potential Big 3 transfer portal class on the way, Jahmai Mashack season review, and the Lady Vols big addition in the portal from SMU. To wrap, Farragut Admirals head football coach Geoff Courtney joins the program to talk about his first year as the Admiral's head football coach (80:00), the Bradley Central victory, spring and summer position battles, what to make of the 2025 schedule, offseason plans and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guest: Jack Foster, Ryan Sylvia, Geoff Courtney
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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. |
| 0:09.0 | All right. Hello. Welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast, where I'm still the A for mention Chase Thomas Comptee live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:17.6 | Join me, Omaha Productions and Rocky Top Insider's own. Jack Foster is here. Jack, good morning, sir. How are you? I'm doing great, Chase. It's a great day here in Knoxville. And, you know, an exciting time with a home series this weekend. So Tennessee baseball back in L&S. So that'll be fun. Of course, it's been a wild last seven days for Tennessee athletics as a whole. |
| 0:39.1 | But hopefully we can get some answers soon. |
| 0:41.9 | It's kind of crazy. |
| 0:42.8 | In some ways, it's been like the longest week of covering Tennessee athletics in a long time. |
| 0:47.0 | Because, I mean, this is when it started Thursday night that that thing goes. |
| 0:50.4 | So we're now at an exact week here. |
| 0:53.7 | But it's also kind of flown by |
| 0:55.0 | in some ways where it's like, man, lots happened over in the last, uh, last week really, really quickly. |
| 0:59.4 | And it's just, if you had told Jack Foster, uh, this time last week, uh, that Tennessee would be, |
| 1:05.7 | uh, having to go into the spring portal window, trying to a one-year stopgap starter because |
| 1:14.6 | Nico Yomaliava is going to be at UCLA. |
| 1:17.9 | I mean, can you imagine? |
| 1:19.0 | Like, you'd be like, no, no. |
| 1:20.4 | And I mean, you're not going to give me credit off air because you, me, and the ball of sports |
| 1:24.3 | guys. |
| 1:24.9 | I did throw that out there last offseason about like Ngoa Iam Aliaba, maybe not being |
| 1:31.5 | Tennessee's starting quarterback in 2025. |
| 1:34.3 | But man, it did happen. |
| 1:36.4 | And it's just he's not here. |
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