Three Memphis LBs commit to Tennessee
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🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Ryan Callahan (from his house across town) convened through the magic of Al Gore’s Internets early Wednesday morning to discuss a huge late Tuesday night for the Tennessee football program.
Memphis Whitehaven High School has three SEC-caliber linebacker prospects on its roster, and all three of them committed to Tennessee on Tuesday night.
Four-star inside linebacker Bryson Eason got things starter with a 10 p.m. Eastern commitment to the Vols.
Less than 90 minutes later, the other two — four-star inside linebacker Martavius French and versatile three-star outside linebacker Tamarion McDonald — joined the party by announcing their commitments to Tennessee.
It was a stunning series of events, considering that French was committed to Arkansas until Sunday night and McDonald was committed to Mississippi State until early Tuesday night and that all three linebackers visited Arkansas over the weekend.
What kind of players did Tennessee just get? Where will they fit into the Vols’ defense? What do their additions mean for Tennessee’s plans for the rest of the class? Those are the main topics discussed in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright. What's up y'all? |
| 0:13.0 | Wes Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker studio. |
| 0:16.0 | Ryan Callahan coming to you from across town there at the Callahan castle I think is what we're calling it. |
| 0:22.0 | And guys, you can tell by the the shorter intro |
| 0:25.4 | this is a breaking news podcast and this is really interesting breaking news |
| 0:30.4 | podcast because there is so much of it Ryan what a Tuesday |
| 0:34.3 | evening it has been for the Tennessee football program. Yeah I can't say we |
| 0:38.8 | really expected that it would be quite this news filled I don't know that the three players involved necessarily |
| 0:45.3 | planned for things to play out quite this way. |
| 0:47.9 | But Tennessee lands three top in state targets |
| 0:52.0 | all from Whitehaven High School in Memphis within a |
| 0:54.3 | span of a little more than an hour. Four-star linebacker Bryson Easton, first |
| 0:58.4 | announcing his decision. He then was followed suit or then was followed by |
| 1:02.4 | four-star linebacker Martavius French who had just |
| 1:05.6 | decommitted from Arkansas on Sunday and then three star linebacker athlete |
| 1:10.5 | Tamarian McDonald after announcing his |
| 1:13.3 | D commitment from Mississippi State just a little while earlier joined French |
| 1:17.4 | just a few minutes after that. So sort of late Tuesday night announcements |
| 1:21.8 | it was something that according to tomorrow |
| 1:23.8 | on McDonald just sort of came together |
| 1:26.1 | after they wrapped up their practice Tuesday. |
| 1:28.4 | You know, they were coming off an official visit to Arkansas over the weekend. |
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