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GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

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🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s full crew — Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan from Fort Rucker, and Ramey from the GoVols247 Blount County Satellite Office in Maryville — convened to discuss plenty of Tennessee football and some Tennessee basketball, as well.

Second-year Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt turned some heads earlier this week when saying he thought the Vols could play eight to ten offensive linemen this season. If Pruitt meant what he said — and he almost always does — that certainly would be a non-linear way of handling a position that prides itself on the chemistry of the unit. Plenty of discussion on that topic is included in this episode.

That’s hardly the only interesting news to surface this week. One of the Vols’ young defensive linemen (Kurott Garland) returned to the program after tap-dancing in the NCAA portal for a few weeks, and one of the Vols’ talented true freshmen (Aaron Beasley) practiced in a new spot. Several other players spent time with other position groups in drills this week, too, but discussion on why that isn’t a big deal also is included in this episode.

It’s been a big week for Tennessee on the recruiting trail, too. The Vols have had a productive few weeks on that front, and touted D.C. safety prospect Mordecai McDaniel on Wednesday became the latest 2020 prospect to pick the Vols. McDaniel was the sole focus of a breaking-news podcast episode Wednesday, but there’s more discussion on him in this episode, as well.

And let’s not forget Tennessee basketball, either. Rick Barnes and his staff are building a juggernaut of a 2020 class, and that class became even more imposing this week, when in-state guard commit Keon Johnson became a consensus five-star player. Tennessee commit Corey Walker — a high-four-star prospect from Florida — also had a big jump in 247Sports’ newest rankings update, rising 10 spots to No. 37 overall. And as we discuss in detail in this episode, other really big names could join the class at some point.

It’s a busy time of year, and there’s plenty to discuss. Plenty of talking points were hit in this hour-long episode.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:24.0	Good morning. Afternoon, evening, brunch time, lunch time, 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit time, 1,000 degrees Celsius time. I'm not good at math.
0:25.0	That's really hot time.
0:27.0	Almost football time in Tennessee time.
0:29.0	Whatever time of date is, it's the right time for the GoValls 24-7 podcast West Rucker Patrick Brown
0:35.2	Ryan Callahan coming to you from Fort Rucker still not in the studio because
0:40.0	somebody I don't I don't want to name name somebody hasn't bought the chairs yet that we need to for everyone else to not sit on the floor.
0:46.7	Couldn't we copy and paste the part, you know just kind of take it from previous episodes where we explain why we're not in the studio yet?
0:52.4	Well because it's always been a different reason this time it's because we don't have chairs. episodes where we explain why we're not in the studio yet.
0:52.6	Well, because it's always been a different reason.
0:53.7	This time, it's because we don't have chairs.
0:54.8	It's been like three months, four months.
0:56.3	We've been saying like, we'll be there next week.
0:58.2	Yeah, but not a lot of that was construction stuff.
1:00.2	A lot of that was other stuff.
1:01.8	We got plenty to discuss today.
1:03.5	Also should say quickly that we will have worthless Grant Ramey on later in the program.
1:08.4	He and I will sit down to talk a little bit of Tennessee Hoopes.
1:10.8	Why are we talking Tennessee hoopsopes when there's so much
1:12.7	football going on right before the season? Because hashtag. Five Star.
1:16.1	Because hashtag. Five star. Five star. Five star. Five star.
1:17.4	Five star. So we got plenty of stuff to talk about that. We're going to get
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