Trey Smith on why he's returning to Tennessee
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🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Patrick Brown (from his house across town) convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss star offensive lineman Trey Smith’s return to Tennessee for his senior season and what that means for the Vols.
The first segment of this episode is a general discussion on Smith’s return and the reasons he made that decision. There were risks associated with any decision Smith made, given his health situation, but when considering the pros and cons of the two choices, it’s tough to suggest Smith got this one wrong.
The second segment of this episode is the audio of Smith’s public announcement, plus interviews with Smith and Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt. Both of them had plenty of interesting things to say.
The third segment of this episode is a general discussion on what Smith’s return means for Tennessee in 2020. The returns of Smith and center Brandon Kennedy combined with the addition of five-star transfer Cade Mays from Georgia and the rest of the returning talent up front means a special season could be in store for the Vols up front. No wet blankets were allowed in that segment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. |
| 0:04.0 | Good morning. Good morning, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunch time. |
| 0:18.0 | What a week for Tennessee football time. |
| 0:21.0 | Just a lot of news time. The guy I'm on this podcast with jinxed it by saying |
| 0:28.4 | it was going to be a slow week time. Whatever time of day it is, boys and girls, it's the right time for the GoValls 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | West Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio. |
| 0:38.4 | Back in the studio, after a couple weeks off. |
| 0:42.4 | It's like my own house, I'm trying to remember what it looks like in here. |
| 0:45.4 | Got a different vibe, I think. I don't know. Just feels different. Anyways, not just me on this podcast guys also from his house I would say I'm not gonna say what |
| 0:57.5 | part of Knoxville it's in because we all know how well our good friend Pat Brown |
| 1:00.8 | guards his uh guards his private life, but somewhere in the metropolitan Knoxville area, |
| 1:08.0 | it is Patrick Brown coming to us. |
| 1:09.8 | Pat, my man, what is going on? Well two things first of all you could say where my house |
| 1:19.6 | is located and I would just deny it first of all deny deny deny deny deny it's the principle I live by live my life by it's |
| 1:26.3 | Cleveland Tennessee just kidding it's not and the other thing is that I don't think |
| 1:31.1 | I said that I thought it would be slow because the Tennessee |
| 1:34.3 | is never slow I just you know I was we were in Jacksonville for six days I was looking |
| 1:39.3 | forward to like okay let's chill out for a minute. |
| 1:43.0 | Just for a couple days. |
| 1:44.0 | Then the balls were like, yeah, okay. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, we've had this week. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah. |
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