Vols in mix for top hoops transfer on market
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🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey went into the Fort Rucker Sun Room — the Fort Rucker Studio somehow is still being renovated — to discuss some interesting developments in Tennessee’s efforts to put together a much different basketball roster heading into next season.
Despite losing a pair of non-seniors — junior stars Grant Williams and Jordan Bone — to the NBA Draft, Tennessee did plenty of late work in the spring signing period and transfer market and is now back at the NCAA’s maximum allotment of 13 scholarship players on the active roster.
Interestingly, though, the Vols are still very active in the 2019 recruiting market.
One 2019 prospect — 6-foot-11 France native Josaphat Bilau — took an official visit to Tennessee earlier this week, and the biggest star on this year’s grad-transfer market is set to visit Knoxville on Friday.
Kerry Blackshear Jr. — a 6-foot-10 forward who averaged 14.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game last season at Virginia Tech — has opted to spend his senior season at a new program, and he’s seriously considering Tennessee as that new program. And he’s visiting Knoxville on Friday.
Of course, programs across the nation are pushing hard for Blackshear, and Tennessee’s biggest rival — perennial national power Kentucky — also is getting a visit from Blackshear.
Blackshear has already visited Florida and Arkansas, and he’s visiting Kentucky after his trip to Knoxville, and several other programs — including Memphis and Gonzaga — are reportedly pushing for him, as well.
What would it mean for Tennessee to land Blackshear — or Bilau, for that matter? What would that mean for the Vols next season? And how would they make those scholarship numbers work? There are plenty of questions to discuss, and they’re discussed in detail in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I do like links. |
| 0:02.0 | Good morning, afternoon, afternoon, evening. |
| 0:15.0 | Bronze time, lunch time, summer basketball time. |
| 0:22.0 | Kevin Durant, that's unfortunate time. |
| 0:25.0 | But you know what? I guess that's lifetime. |
| 0:28.0 | Whatever time of date is, it's the right time for the GoBalls 24-7 podcast, Rucker Grant Ramey coming to you from the |
| 0:35.6 | Fort Rucker Sunroom. Still not the studio. But hey Grant we're here on a lovely, lovely Thursday afternoon in Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| 0:47.0 | Can I just drop this to you on a lovely Friday morning in Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| 0:52.0 | When you said that's lifetime, you're talking about the... Friday morning in Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| 0:57.0 | When you said that's lifetime, you're talking about the channel or just in general? I don't know, could Kevin Durant's ruptured Achilles be a lifetime movie? |
| 1:01.0 | One day, one day. The man tried to keep him down by tearing his |
| 1:06.0 | Achilles. We got a lot to discuss today. Actually some somehow. Somehow some the middle of June there's a lot to talk about my goodness right I mean I'm not complaining there leaves more to do but you know, goodness gracious, |
| 1:22.6 | gonna go from talking about one of Rick Barnes' |
| 1:24.6 | former players to perhaps a couple of his future players, |
| 1:29.6 | soon to be players. |
| 1:31.6 | This is what's so interesting about this grant. We thought that, you know, we knew that Tennessee |
| 1:37.9 | scholarship situation was going to be tight because of the number of people that they |
| 1:41.8 | signed. |
| 1:43.3 | And then they went ahead and added another one. |
| 1:45.8 | Then they went ahead and added a transfer. |
| 1:47.7 | So at that point, they're definitely full even though Derek Walker left the program. |
| 1:51.8 | Now all of a sudden, and we got a couple things to talk about. |
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