Vols' feel-good summer suffers rough week
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🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Patrick Brown convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss a week with a trifecta of rough news for a Tennessee program that had previously enjoyed a feel-good summer.
Rough news began in the middle of the week, when it was revealed that multiple Tennessee student-athletes in multiple sports — including football — had tested positive for COVID-19. None of the 91 Tennessee football players on campus had tested positive in the first round of tests last month, but the tests after the July 4 holiday weekend revealed a different story. Specific numbers weren’t given, either, which on the surface sounded a bit ominous. Conversations with people in the program have revealed that it’s not a horrible situation at this point, though, so the first segment of this episode is focused on putting that news in perspective.
The second segment of this episode is focused on the fallout from this week’s news that Tennessee senior starting tight end Austin Pope has had another back surgery and senior defensive lineman Emmit Gooden has been dismissed from the program following an arrest for his alleged actions in a troubling off-the-field incident.
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| 0:00.0 | I Good morning afternoon, afternoon, evening, lunchtime, not a great week of news time. Not a great week of news time. It's Friday so don't really want to ruin the |
| 0:28.8 | mood time. I'm afraid we might have two time. |
| 0:33.6 | Whatever time of day it is, boys and girls, that's the right time for the GoValls |
| 0:37.3 | 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:38.9 | Westrucker coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio here on a Friday morning, late Friday morning I suppose you could call it. |
| 0:49.1 | Joined across town by our good friend the best Tennessee beat writer on this or any other planet, our good friend |
| 0:56.9 | Patrick Brown and I gotta tell you Pat, we have had some, you know, throughout this pandemic throughout this summer there's been mostly bad news |
| 1:06.9 | throughout the college football world, but Tennessee has been one of those rare beacons of |
| 1:11.2 | one of those rare beacons shining bright. |
| 1:13.6 | One of those places where we've had some good news. |
| 1:18.3 | You know, you had Tennessee recruiting so well, |
| 1:21.5 | you had Tennessee's academic numbers be fantastic. You had Jeremy Pruitt |
| 1:27.1 | surprising some people by emerging as one of the cultural ball coaches kind of at the forefront of that fight for social justice change in the country. |
| 1:35.6 | You've had so many really good pieces of news for Tennessee recently. |
| 1:40.0 | Not so much this week. |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah, Wes, it's like, you know, when you have that sign in the workplace where it's like zero, |
| 1:49.0 | you know, how many days since your last workplace accident. |
| 1:51.0 | I think that's, that's on the office I'm pretty sure but yeah |
| 1:55.2 | Tennessee had to go back to zero a couple times this week and and on Thursday they |
| 1:58.8 | went about four hours between hits of bad news. |
| 2:10.8 | So after yeah, I know one one poster on the checker board on on Goeballs 24-7 pointed out that the |
| 2:16.2 | last six text messages he's gotten from our text alert system which if you haven't signed up for you should yes and you can reach |
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