One coach is scared of Tennessee.

Another coach said Tennessee is not going to be very good.

It's the anonymous coaches.

What they're saying about the balls, it's funny.

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Part of the Locked on podcast network. Your team every day. What is good, everybody? Welcome into it, your Thursday morning, Lockdown Falls. I am your host, Eric Kane. Appreciate you guys being here with us here today. We've got a fun show coming up. We're going to go back and look at some of the best transfer portal additions for Tennessee football post-spring practice. We'll do some honorable mention.

We'll do 10 down to 1. That's coming up in segments 2 and 3. Who are the transfers that are

going to help Tennessee football out the most leaving spring practice? But first, here today on

the show, it's one of my favorite shows that we do each and every springtime heading in the summertime.

Athlon Sports does a fantastic job.

You go to Athlonsports.com and they go and they have a story called anonymous coaches, what

they're saying about the SEC this year.

Because so easily you can talk off the record.

So much times you don't want to, you don't want your name tied to something when talking about a specific player, coach, or program. So whenever you go off the record or whenever you go anonymous, I should say, it's on the record, but your name is anonymous. Coaches will say whatever. And Athlon Sports does this every single year. And the full story is out there at Athlonsports.com. You go check it out. But what did they say about the Tennessee program?

It's kind of funny. And we'll go ahead and start with one of these top quotes up here that I'm going to pull. Again, Athlon Sports, what anonymous coaches said about the Tennessee football program? These are staffers. These are assistant coaches. There's some head coaches in here. All anonymous. the first quote I'm going to read for you here is having the Joey Aguilar deal not go their way is good for the SEC.

They're unproven at quarterback.

Okay, so you're sitting here saying, well, the fact that Joey Aguilar got denied his injunction in Knox County courts.

The fact that that happened, and Joey Aguilar is not going to be a part of things moving forward for Tennessee football. That's a good thing for the SEC because this coach believes, hey, you're unproving a quarterback. That's good because Tennessee's pretty good. You put Joey Aguilar in with his receivers that he threw for over 800 yards apiece to Mike Matthews and Braylain Staley.

You put Joey Aguilar back into a situation where he has a 1,000-yard rusher behind him into Sean Bishop.

You put Joey Aguilar back in a situation where he's playing behind a veteran offensive line.

And oh, yeah, you bring back the SEC leader in passing yards last year in the regular season.

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