GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

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. After a brief discussion on Tennessee basketball’s promising play in this week’s Battle 4 Atlantis down in the Bahamas, this episode of the podcast brings the latest on where things stood in Tennessee’s football coaching search heading into Thanksgiving. Who’s trending up? Who’s trending down? Who’s still in play? Who, if anyone, knows what Tennessee athletic director John Currie is really thinking? Are there any potential wildcard candidates in the mix? Those questions and many others are discussed in this episode. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 or Western Kentucky on Thanksgiving Day and then one of four teams — including potentially No. 2 Arizona — on Friday. The top three teams in Ken Pomeroy's rankings are all in the Bahamas for arguably the best field of any Thanksgiving week tournament in the country, which means Rick Barnes and his Vols have a heck of an opportunity. Will they take advantage of it, though? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 break down in this coaching search, and we're here to bring you the latest. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Gruden Jon Gruden Jon Gruden OMG Jon Gruden. Jon Gruden. Plus we talk some hoops and Tennessee football's upcoming game against No. 20 LSU at Neyland Stadium on Saturday night. Plus Jon Gruden. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 interest is there in the Tennessee job right now? Those questions and many more are discussed in this episode. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 wrong? What lessons need to be learned from this disappointment? Before taking a look at Tennessee's search for a new coach — which we'll do in a Tuesday podcast — let's look at how things reached this point for Jones and the Vols. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 spoke at length about his current Tennessee team, his recruiting philosophy, his vision for the future of Vols basketball and much, much more. And with Barnes being Barnes, there's also plenty of non-hoops stories in the mix — including one particularly interesting tale of a "buck naked" bike ride that won Barnes a bet but forced him to hide from local police. You don't want to miss this episode. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices