GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Danny Parker went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down Tennessee's results from college football's first Early Signing Period. Prospects now have a small window to sign in late December if they choose, and many have chosen to do that. What do we know about the Vols' first Early Signing Period haul under new coach Jeremy Pruitt? What have the Vols added? W...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker (from Fort Rucker Studio) and Grant Ramey (from GoVols247's Blount County Bureau) convened to break down the 21st-ranked Tennessee basketball team's oh-so-close loss to fifth-ranked North Carolina over the weekend and look ahead to another big week for the legit-contender Vols. Tennessee's nine-point, second-half lead over the Tar Heels didn't hold up, just like the Vols' 12...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown and Danny Parker head into Fort Rucker Studio to break down new Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt's staff and player recruiting efforts to this point. A Vols recruiting class that was ranked in the top-five nationally is now ranked 46th, but there was always going to be some turnover after a coaching change ushered in a new set of priorities on each side...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down anything and everything you need to know heading into Sunday's showdown between No. 20 Tennessee and No. 7 North Carolina at Thompson-Boling Arena. The Vols nearly stunned the eventual-national-champion Tar Heels last season in Chapel Hill until a late rally turned the tide. Will a much-improved Tennessee team be abl...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down the hire of Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt as the 26th head football coach at the University of Tennessee. And it took the Vols nearly 26 days — and two athletic directors — after the firing of Butch Jones to end a wild search with Pruitt, a 43-year-old coach and recruiter with a staggeringly impressiv...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down ... well ... whatever it was that happened this week at Tennessee. The Vols went into the week looking for a new head football coach, and that went so well that the man leading that search — athletic director John Currie — was suspended with pay and replaced by new athletic director Phillip Fulmer. N...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Grant Ramey and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to breakdown the latest in Tennessee's wild search for a new head football coach. What in the world was Tennessee thinking with the Greg Schiano hire/almost-hire? How did things reach that point? What will be the fallout from that? And where do the Vols go from here? Can they really get in the mix for Oklahoma State...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Danny Parker went into Fort Rucker Studio to breakdown Tennessee’s season finale against Vanderbilt in a game that feels more like Badlam than Bedlam. The Vols and Commodores are both 0-7 in SEC play, and a Tennessee loss on Saturday would give the Vols eight losses in a single season for the first time in program history as well as their first winless season in SEC play...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker (at the Fort Rucker Studio) and Grant Ramey (at GoVols247's Blount County Headquarters in Maryville) go in studio to break down what's going to be a huge week for Tennessee basketball at the Battle 4 Atlantis in Nassau, Bahamas. The Vols open Battle 4 Atlantis against 18th-ranked Purdue at 12:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday. From there, the Vols will play either No. 3 Villanova...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Patrick Brown head into Fort Rucker Studio to break down Tennessee's ongoing search for a new head football coach — a journey that took a fascinating turn Saturday when an iconic Knoxville restaurant got involved in Grumors in a big and hilarious way. Is Jon Gruden still a possibility for Tennessee? And if he isn't, where would the Vols go from there? There's a lot to br...

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey went into the Fort Rucker Studio — or, in Ramey's case, the GoVols247 Blount County Bureau in Maryville — to break down an interesting first week in Tennessee's search for a new head football coach. There's plenty of discussion on everyone's favorite candidate, but this episode doesn't focus only on Jon Gruden. But there's plenty of Jon Gruden info. Jon Grude...

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown and Danny Parker went into the Fort Rucker Studio to break down Tennessee's search to find a fifth football coach in the past decade. Butch Jones is out, and the search to find his replacement is underway. What names are near the top of Tennessee's wish list? Which names should be near the top of Tennessee's wish list? Will money be an issue? What kind of inte...

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker, Patrick Brown and Danny Parker went into the Fort Rucker Studio to break down Tennessee's dismissal of Butch Jones as its football coach following last weekend's 50-17 loss at Missouri. For all the early promise of the Jones era, the end result was no SEC Eastern Division championships at five years, and that's not good enough in Knoxville. Where did Jones and his staff go...

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Grant Ramey left the friendly confines of Fort Rucker Studio to Tennessee's Pratt Pavilion for an exclusive interview with Vols basketball coach Rick Barnes to preview the upcoming season, which opens Friday night at Thompson-Boling Arena. The coach with 635 wins, 22 NCAA Tournament bids, six Sweet Sixteens, three Elite Eights and one Final Four appearance on his resume...