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GoVols247’s full crew — Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan, Grant Ramey and Patrick Brown — went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down the latest news, notes and insights from Tennessee's first preseason camp under coach Jeremy Pruitt. The Vols have practiced a couple of times in full pads now, and just before that they had an open practice for fans at Neyland Stadium. We've seen enough at this point to st...

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to discuss the hot topics heading into Tennessee's preseason camp — a camp set to start Friday afternoon with a practice at Haslam Field. The offseason and ended, the preseason is here and the actual season will be here in a month. There are plenty of questions first-year coach Jeremy Pruitt's Vols need to answer,...

GoVols247’s full crew — Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan, Grant Ramey and Patrick Brown — went into Fort Rucker Studio to discuss the state of Tennessee’s defense heading into its first preseason camp with new head coach Jeremy Pruitt. Pruitt has spent the past decade cultivating a reputation as one of the best up-and-coming defensive minds in the college game, and he's already got a handful of national...

GoVols247’s full crew — Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan, Grant Ramey and Patrick Brown — went into Fort Rucker Studio to discuss the state of Tennessee’s offense heading into its first preseason camp with new head coach Jeremy Pruitt. Pruitt completely overhauled Tennessee’s offensive staff, and that new staff — a group led by offensive coordinator Tyson Helton, who came to the Vols from USC — is instal...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to recap the news and notes of this week's SEC Media Days at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. In case you missed it — surely you didn't miss it — there's been a silly controversy surrounding new Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt's personality and whether it's a good fit for his new position. Seve...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Grant Ramey and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down another interesting week for the Tennessee football and men's basketball programs. Bovada this week released the SEC divisional and conference-champion odds, and things look about as grim as you'd expect for Jeremy Pruitt and his rebuilding Tennessee program. We break down those odds for the Vols, and...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Grant Ramey and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to hold the second annual Preseason Camp Buzz Draft. The rules were simple: Pick three players who aren't surefire starters who could generate plenty of buzz in preseason camp, and at least one of those players can't be a newcomer. The first annual Preseason Camp Buzz draft was "not a snake draft," according to Rame...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down some reasons why the Tennessee football team might exceed expectations in its first season under coach Jeremy Pruitt. Media who cover one team on a consistent basis can at times seem a bit jaded and focus so much on a team's weaknesses rather than its strengths, and that's a natural feeling when you...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down the latest news from another week of Tennessee football. It's been a newsy week for first-year coach Jeremy Pruitt's Vols, who added two commitments — including a quarterback — to their 2019 class. We also break down Tennessee quarterback Jarrett Guarantano's performance at the annual Manning Passing Academy, take...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down the offseason that's been and the offseason that will be for the Tennessee basketball team — a team that's been ranked in the preseason top-five by several analysts heading into next season. Are the Vols ready for that kind of target? Does having virtually your entire team returning from last season guarantee anythin...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Grant Ramey went into Fort Rucker Studio to discuss the career and legacy of iconic former Voice of the Vols John Ward, who passed away this week at the age of 88. Tennessee's four-decade broadcaster was consistently regarded as one of the nation's best for a reason, and he was a beloved figure in the Volunteer State for a reason. This episode is focused m...

GoVols247's full staff — Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan, Patrick Brown and Grant Ramey — went into Fort Rucker studio to break some some of the wildest things we've seen during our time covering Tennessee athletics over the years. Wes' recent wedding was something no one else on the staff thought would ever happen, and in honor of that, we held a roundtable discussion on some of the other crazy things...

GoVols247's full staff — Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan, Patrick Brown and Grant Ramey — went into Fort Rucker studio to break down the latest from another week of Tennessee athletics. It's been a busy summer week on The Hill, and a vast majority of coach Jeremy Pruitt's first Tennessee signing class is now enrolled in classes and participating in team workouts. We have the latest on who enrolled, who...

GoVols247's full staff — Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan, Patrick Brown and Grant Ramey — went into Fort Rucker studio to break down Tennessee's latest influx of 2018 signees arriving on campus for the start of summer semester classes. Who's in? Who's not? Who might find a way to be in soon? This is a big topic every summer, and a couple of situations with a couple of players changed in between the Wedn...

GoVols247's full staff — Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan, Patrick Brown and Grant Ramey — went into Fort Rucker studio to break down the curious case of star linebacker Darrin Kirkland Jr., who in the span of five days decided to leave and then not leave the Tennessee football program. All's well that ends well, and the bottom line is Kirkland returned to the team, but his situation was the latest spotl...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown and Grant Ramey went into a waterlogged Fort Rucker Studio to break down anything and everything related to another week of University of Tennessee athletics — which, of course, wasn't a boring week, because those don't exist on this beat. The main topic this week is a more expansive discussion on the latest palace intrigue at Tennessee — the demotion of UT-Kn...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker went into Fort Rucker Studio to provide a quick recap from another ... well ... interesting week for the University of Tennessee and then pass along a recent speech from new Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt to The Rotary Club of Knoxville. Before playing the Pruitt audio, though, there's a quick snapshot of another wild week in Knoxville. University of Tennessee-Knoxville Chancellor...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan went into Fort Rucker Studio to take an extensive look at the Tennessee football team's first spring camp under coach Jeremy Pruitt and his staff. Everyone knows what kind of situation Pruitt and his staff walked into when they agreed to come to Knoxville, but the belief is that Pruitt — a well-respected, young protege of Nick Saban, Jimbo Fi...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan went into Fort Rucker Studio to preview the NFL Draft through a University of Tennessee lens. This season's Tennessee draft class isn't a huge one, at least by the standards of a program that's traditionally one of the NFL's richest pipelines, but at least a couple of Vols should hear their name called by the end of the annual seven-round, th...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down Saturday's annual Orange & White Game for the Tennessee football team. The Orange team (first-team offense, second-team defense) boat-raced the White team (first-team defense, second-team offense) in a 34-7 thumping, but what does that really mean? Is Tennessee's first-team offense really that far ahead of the firs...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to preview Saturday's annual Orange & White Game — the Vols' first spring game under new coach Jeremy Pruitt. Pruitt has kept things mostly quiet this spring, but Saturday's game — and it'll actually be formatted like a game this year — should provide at least a sneak peek at what the Vols might look like under a...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down the latest as the third week of Tennessee football's first spring camp under coach Jeremy Pruitt approaches its conclusion. The Vols have practiced eight times this spring, and Practice No. 9 — Saturday's practice — will be their first scrimmage of the Pruitt era. What do Pruitt and his staff need to...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down the latest as the second week of Tennessee football's first spring camp under coach Jeremy Pruitt approaches its conclusion. Pruitt has been the only person in the Tennessee football program to speak on the record with reporters since the head coach took the job in December, and that trend has contin...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey went into Fort Rucker Studio to review a Tennessee basketball season that was so surprisingly good until it had a surprisingly sour finish. The Vols won an SEC championship after being picked to finish 13th in the 14th-team league, and they returned to the NCAA Tournament after a three-year absence before being shocked by Final Four-bound Loyola-Chicago in a...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey went into Fort Rucker Studio for an episode that was initially scheduled as a basketball season recap but became something entirely different after Thursday night's document dump from the Tennessee athletic department in response to Freedom of Information Act requests regarding the final days of former athletic director John Currie's tenure. Currie was placed...