The past, present and future of Vols hoops
GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast
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🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Grant Ramey (from GoVols247's Blount County Satellite Office in Maryville) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to put a bow on Tennessee's 2019-20 basketball season and look forward to what could be a fantastic 2020-21 season.
This past season was never a dull one for Rick Barnes and his Vols, who were dealt a crushing blow when fifth-year senior point guard and unquestioned team leader Lamonte Turner went down with a season-ending shoulder injury. Tennessee took a while to adjust to Turner's absence, and despite the emergence of junior forward John Fulkerson as a star and the remarkable impact from mid-year enrollee point guard Santiago Vescovi, the Vols remained an erratic bunch most of the season and were a longshot — not impossible, but a longshot — to make the NCAA Tournament before the postseason was cancelled because of the worldwide novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
What did we learn about the Vols this season? What went right, what we wrong and what was somewhere in between? That's the focus of the first segment of this episode.
The future is the focus of the second segment of this episode, though, and the future for these Vols is expected to be bright. Tennessee seems to be a consensus top-15 team heading into next season, because most of the current roster returns and it will be bolstered by arguably the best signing class in program history — and that's not including the addition of Sacred Heart all-conference forward E.J. Anosike as a grad transfer, and the addition of Victor Bailey Jr., a versatile, ultra-athletic guard who sat out this season while transferring from Oregon. Why are people so excited about this team? Well, there are many legitimate reasons for that, and those reasons are discussed in detail in this episode.
Past. Present. Future. All of them are discussed in this episode.
The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released Thursday, unless breaking news occurs before that point.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. Good morning, afternoon, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunchtime. So March kind of suck time April might also suck time but you know what |
| 0:28.6 | we're gonna get through it together time stay safe out there time whatever time of day it is boys and girls it's the time. Stay safe out there time. Whatever time of day it is |
| 0:33.6 | boys and girls it's the right time for the GoValls 24-7 |
| 0:36.9 | podcast West Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio on a |
| 0:40.4 | Wednesday afternoon. Probably gonna go ahead and drop this podcast on a Wednesday afternoon, probably going to go ahead and drop this |
| 0:43.5 | podcast on a Wednesday afternoon, get April started off with a bang, not just me |
| 0:49.0 | on this podcast from the Blunt County Satellite Office of Govalls 24-7 down in Merraville, Tennessee, |
| 0:57.0 | or as no one around here pronounces it, Maryville, Tennessee. |
| 1:01.0 | We've got Grant Rami. What's up, Grant? |
| 1:02.0 | I don't know why everybody's |
| 1:03.7 | complaining about the quarantine lifestyle. This is really, it's really my ideal |
| 1:08.1 | setup. Yeah, of every minute of it. You know, here's the thing though, Grant. I've been thinking about this a little bit lately you've got the you've got two very small kids there and you're got that really open concept of a house so there's really no escape is there? |
| 1:28.1 | No but you know I've painted myself into that corner so I've come to grips with that over the years. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, we just got a puppy over here and by the way I don't think you'll hear any background noise but if you do because we're all dealing with different circumstances here. |
| 1:41.4 | My wife also is working from home and her office is |
| 1:44.4 | directly across the hall from mine. We've got both doors shut but she's on conference calls and things all day long, |
| 1:49.5 | so hopefully you don't hear any background noise there, but you might. |
| 1:55.0 | I hope you don't, but you might. |
| 1:57.0 | And the other thing is my voice is still just not great. |
| 2:00.0 | It never has been great, but you know, had this bronchitis thing for weeks now, and it's just it sucks, but it's not coronavirus |
| 2:07.4 | So I am counting my lucky stars for that at least I don't think it is |
| 2:11.6 | Grant We have been needing to do this podcast, excuse me, |
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