Vols still planning to play in 2020. Plus mailbag.

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🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss Tennessee’s desire to play football this fall and answer tailback questions from Vols fans across the world.

The Big Ten and Pac-12 announced earlier this week that they were suspending football this fall in light of the worldwide novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but the other three Power 5 conferences — including the SEC — are still moving ahead and trying to play. Tennessee and the rest of the SEC is scheduled to start the season Sept. 26. Is that still a realistic goal? Where is the disconnect between college football’s most powerful leagues on this issue? That’s the main point of discussion in the first segment, but there’s also some discussion on Tennessee basketball recruiting after the Vols offered another 2022 prospect from Knoxville Catholic High School — 7-footer Handje Tamba.

As usual on Thursday episodes, a mailbag was featured in the second segment of this episode. Disappointingly, there were no hand-to-hand combat questions this week, but there were tons of fun questions about Tennessee football, Tennessee basketball, the SEC, COVID-19, recruiting, best and most movie sequels, which vehicle best represents every GoVols247 staff member and even the art (or whatever) of podcasting.

The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released Monday, unless breaking news occurs before that point.

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0:00.0	I- Good morning afternoon, afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunch time. Still for now playing football time. Hopefully that remains the case time.
0:28.8	I think is going to be a lot different time. That's okay because anything that doesn't totally suck in
0:36.2	20 is pretty fun time. Whatever time of day it is, boys and girls, it's the
0:40.1	right time for the Go Vols 24-7 podcast West record coming to you from
0:43.5	Fort Rutgers studio here on a Thursday afternoon another warm sunny afternoon
0:50.4	another 90 degree day, bring it on. Love that. Love that. A lot of people
0:57.0	don't like this weather. I love it. Not just me on this podcast though, someone else who, I bet,
1:02.0	appreciates this weather because he can get out and
1:04.4	running it and it's so humid and wonderful and disgusting it's our good friend from the
1:09.2	Blunk County Satellite Office of GoBalls 24-7, Tennessee, basketball, and recruiting, and everybody else,
1:15.2	writer, Grant, Grant, you like this weather buddy?
1:18.4	I can confirm that it is hot and you will get sweaty if you go outside.
1:22.4	It's what's good. Bring it on.
1:24.0	Yeah, I like it. I like it. A lot of people,
1:27.0	my wife included don't like this weather.
1:29.0	This is the weather for me, man. I love this stuff.
1:32.0	I love to get out and the heat the all things to the old
1:34.9	baseball days and you know the Cubs might speaking of baseball the Cubs might never lose again which is kind of
1:39.8	awesome so lots and lots of good things out there. Lots of reason for, I don't, do we call it optimism, Grant, or do we call it just not pessimism? What are we, what are we calling this?
1:52.0	Optimism for sure.
1:54.0	I think positive thoughts.
1:55.0	Speak it into existence.
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