Vols hoops NBA, COVID, recruiting chatter
GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast
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🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss several Tennessee basketball topics.
The first segment of this episode is focused on Tennessee’s current roster. Reigning SEC Defensive Player of the Year Yves Pons still hasn’t decided whether to return to school for his senior season, and it’s not clear when he plans to do that, but he’s currently working out with the team and there’s plenty to discuss on that front.
As for the rest of the team, everyone but sophomore guard Santiago Vescovi (who’s still at home in Uruguay) is back on campus for workouts, which means the two unnamed players who tested positive for COVID-19 have cleared quarantine and been approved for action. Some discussion on the virus and its impact on college basketball scheduling rounds out the first segment.
Recruiting takes center stage in the second segment of this episode. And there’s plenty to discuss there, with Tennessee trending in a big way for five-star point guard prospect Kennedy Chandler — a Memphis native who plans to spend his senior season at powerhouse Sunrise Christian Academy in Kansas. Chandler has been at the top of Tennessee’s 2021 board for years, and adding him could create a serious ripple effect for the other top targets — including multiple five-star prospects — on the Vols’ board.
Some 2022 recruiting targets to watch are discussed in the second segment, as well.
The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released Thursday, unless major breaking news occurs before that point.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. Good morning afternoon, afternoon, evening. |
| 0:17.0 | Bruns time, lunch time. |
| 0:22.0 | Tech issues time. Tech issues time. |
| 0:25.0 | We're gonna try to talk a little basketball time. |
| 0:28.0 | If we can get through this time, |
| 0:29.0 | whatever time of day it is, boys and girls, |
| 0:31.0 | it's the right time for the GoValls 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | West Rucker coming to you from Fort Rucker Studio. |
| 0:36.6 | Recording this on a Tuesday evening, also probably, |
| 0:40.0 | almost certainly gonna drop it on a Tuesday evening, not just me on this episode. |
| 0:45.0 | And since you said, or since I just said we were talking hoops, |
| 0:49.0 | you know what that means. We've got from the Goevalls 24-7 Blunk County Satellite Office just down the road. |
| 0:56.0 | We've got our good friend, Grant Ramey. Grant was going on. |
| 0:59.7 | Your challenge will be to drop this before I go to bed tonight so it's a race against the clock. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, it's your time starts as soon as you get stopped. |
| 1:07.0 | I'll be super quick about this but like I updated the OS today on my computer |
| 1:12.1 | and it threw everything off. |
| 1:14.0 | Like I normally have three monitors right now, I have one and I'm trying and like I've also got this thing in my |
| 1:19.7 | eye that I'm getting ready to go to the doctor for tonight so my vision's already kind of blurry in one eye anyway |
| 1:24.8 | we've got we've got issues right now okay? Gus is downstairs being a royal terror just everything |
| 1:32.0 | everything's going on right now but we determined that we were going to talk a little bit of hoops tonight, and we are going to do that, Grant. |
| 1:39.0 | We're going to do that. |
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