Vols still COVID free, season still uncertain
GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast
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🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s full crew — Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown, Grant Ramey and Ryan Callahan — convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss Tennessee football, COVID-19, recruiting and much more.
COVID-19 and its impact on the 2020 football season is the primary discussion point in the first segment of this episode. As of Tuesday morning, Tennessee hasn’t confirmed a single positive coronavirus test from any of its players, but the Vols seem to be the exception rather than the norm at this point, and there are serious questions about the 2020 season — whether it will be played as usual, played without fans in the stands, played with reduced numbers of fans in the stands, shortened or even moved to the spring. The NCAA and SEC haven’t said much to this point, but we’re getting closer to the late July range — the time SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and others have mentioned as a target to make serious decisions.
After a full discussion on where things stand with the Vols, college football and COVID-19, discussion shifts to recruiting to start the second segment. It’s been a quieter few weeks on that front after a torrid stretch, but there are still important updates to discuss. The performance of Tennessee quarterback commitment Kaidon Salter at the recent Elite 11 showcase is discussed in detail, as well.
Jeremy Pruitt and his commitment to giving his players a pedestal to talk social-justice issues and potential solutions is the primary discussion toward the end of the second segment.
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, brunch time, lunch time. Football season, practice time. Football season practice time. Is there going to be a football season time? |
| 0:27.0 | Do we act like there's going to be a season time and then adjust time? Maybe we try to be pessimistic, not pessimistic, optimistic, |
| 0:35.8 | optimistic time, bad intro time. Whatever time of day it is, boys and girls, it's the |
| 0:40.2 | right time for the Go-Valls 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:42.5 | Got the full crew today. |
| 0:45.8 | Recording this on a Tuesday morning. |
| 0:47.8 | Hopefully gonna drop it to you around lunchtime on Tuesday. |
| 0:50.9 | By a full crew, I'll go left to right here on the Zoom screen that I can see, but y'all can't. |
| 0:56.8 | Grant Ramey, Patrick Brown, Ryan Callahan, and fellas, it's another week, another week where we don't know maybe a ton about how much we're going to see Tennessee or not see Tennessee play. A lot of the news certainly nationally not |
| 1:14.4 | trending where we would like it to but before we get to that fellas how are we |
| 1:18.3 | doing well good to hear from the whole crew. We haven't had a full reunion here in a while, have we? |
| 1:28.0 | We have not. We have not. I want to revisit the being pessimistic thing from the intro because hey I got that covered. |
| 1:35.7 | You're everyone else's pessimism is my natural state of being. |
| 1:40.0 | But other than that I mean you know Pat you good haven't heard from you yet you doing all right. Yeah, this is a first podcast in the new house |
| 1:46.5 | Yeah, congratulations on that by the way |
| 1:49.1 | Thank you the new undisclosed location |
| 1:53.0 | It's some It's... |
| 1:54.0 | It's... It's... |
| 1:55.0 | That is true. |
| 1:56.0 | That's... |
| 1:57.0 | Do you have a new recording studio in the new home? |
| 2:00.0 | I do have an office, yes. All right right I've got a walk in closet so yeah |
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