Tennessee Airing Of Grievances: Tony Vitello's UT Departure, Vols Overthinking Rodney Rice & Vanderbilt Debacle With Rocky Top Insider's Ryan Schumpert

About this episode

Chase Thomas discusses the recent developments in Tennessee sports with Ryan Schumpert, including Tony Vitello's departure and the implications for the basketball and football programs.

On today's program, Chase is joined by Rocky Top Insider's Ryan Schumpert to talk about Tony Vitello leaving the Vols for San Francisco, Tennessee men's hoops not adding Rodney Rice this offseason, staff changes for the football program, Tim Banks coaching safeties, Tennessee not playing complimentary football for a long time now, wasting two great schedules and the rise of Vanderbilt. Host: Chase Thomas Guests: Ryan Schumpert To learn more about CT and the pod please go visit: https://chasethomaspodcast.com By the way, this is a free, independent national sports podcast. To keep it that way, I'm going to need some help from you guys. If you're a fan of the pod and you haven't already, take a second right now and leave the show a 5-star rating and a review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. It really does help, and it's so quick and easy to do. Thanks, y'all! Keep up with Chase on social media: Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PodChaseThomas Follow me on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kFHPDn Follow me on TikTok: https://bit.ly/3JdZ3RF 'Like' me on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3ZmURo4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Chase Thomas

Guest: Ryan Schumpert

Topics covered

• Tennessee Volunteers
• Tony Vitello
• Rodney Rice
• Vanderbilt
• college sports
• coaching changes

Keywords

• Tennessee Volunteers
• Tony Vitello
• Rodney Rice
• Vanderbilt
• Tim Banks
• college basketball
• college football

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rocky Top Insider, San Francisco, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

Products: Rodney Rice

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