GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we break down the latest Florida Gators football hires that took place over the weekend.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre give you their thoughts on the coaching hires, plus what these guys bring to the table.
Andrew and Nick also break down the Florida Gators basketball team’s recent success including a blowout win against Kentucky on Saturday.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, another weekend full of drama in Gainesville.
Nick: I say it. I don’t know if people listen to it, or if it resonates with them, but when you cover this team there is never a dull day, never a dull moment. There’s always something going on in Gainesville.
Andrew: I have tried since Signing Day to take a day off, and still haven’t got that day off.
Nick: Not happening.
Andrew: It’s going to happen, very soon. I’m just going to shut it down, and whatever happens, happens. That’s about where I’m at. We knew coaching moves were coming. We had been kind of hinting at this Jajuan Seider hiring for Florida. It finally happened on Friday. It basically happened on Thursday.
Then, Torrian Gray leaves for the Washington Redskins. That one was a little bit out of nowhere. I knew he had interviewed or had talked to people, but that he was going to get the Redskins job was a little out of nowhere.
Nick: To me, I think it’s a little different for you, the NFL is the pinnacle. I grew up in a pro sports town. You grew up in Alabama. You don’t really have a pro sports teams. There’s no pro sports team in the state. We can argue that maybe the way that Nick Saban runs his organization there that maybe that’s not really amateur, that’s pro sports down there, but that’s just … I’m just kidding there. There’s no pro sports team. For me, a coach coaching in the NFL is better than coaching in college. It’s just a bigger league. To you, your first thing to me was why would you want to go to the Redskins?
Andrew: My first thing wasn’t exactly that it was a surprise that he went. It was more of we had heard that he really liked recruiting. Now, he had a bad year in recruiting. We said it all year long that he was struggling a little bit. My first thought is he got tired of recruiting in a hurry. The one thing that you will always here about Gray is how great of a coach he is. For a guy that just likes to coach, the NFL’s the spot for him. I don’t know. Like I said, it was a little bit of a shot out of nowhere, but then when you start to ask other people, they say multiple NFL teams had really interviewed him. Definitely looked like he was going to get a job when you hear that.
Nick: Yeah. The track record is there. You mentioned recruiting this year, but the track record is there. Not just recruiting, but also developing. You still have to develop, especially when you check out, every year the guys going into the NFL as underclassmen the number just keeps getting bigger and bigger. There is still some of that developing. Nick Saban went to the NFL with the Dolphins and found out this isn’t what I’m into coaching for.
It’s not the same as far as developing. You don’t have the same kind of power that you do over a college kid when you’re coaching at the college level where they’re student athletes. You’re a coach in the NFL, and you’re saying, “You got to run these wind sprints.” “Sorry, Chief. I’m a 13 year veteran left tackle. I’m making $20 million this year. You’re making three, and it’s in my contract that I don’t have to do these sprints. Figure that out, but I’ll be here standing next to you while everyone else runs.” That’s different.
With young people, with how young it is getting in the NFL with all these guys leaving school early, there is still part of that development process. You look at that. You look at the way he’s been able to recruit. That’s not really an NFL thing. You might be looking at it in terms of can he develop? Does he relate to these players? What kind of coach is he?
Andrew: Right, and he checks all those boxes.
Nick: He’s a technician. He knows that position. He knows defensive backs. Quincy Wilson, Jalen Tabor, Duke Dawson, any of those guys that he coached this year will tell you that. He knows his Xs and Os. He knows the technical ins and outs of being a defensive back.
Andrew: I think that’s the biggest thing when you see that about him is you’re going to lose a lot in that. Like I said, he struggled in recruiting. We put this in our behind the scenes story on Monday. He didn’t really have a relationship with Shawn Wade, and that kind of cost the Gators Shawn Wade. He didn’t really have a good relationship with Elijah Blades. It was more of Torrian struggling to keep up the communication with a lot of people, something he didn’t really have to do a ton at Virginia Tech. Also, at Virginia Tech you’re not really fighting Alabama. You’re not really fighting Ohio State for the same players. It’s a little bit different in that.
Nick, I’m going to be honest with you, the Gators take a step back in the coaching department because of that. This is at the worst time for them to take a step back. With so many young guys, you really were hoping to have Torrian be able to coach those guys up. We talk about Chris Williamson and these younger guys that needed coaching. They needed a year with Torrian Gray to help them. Now they lose that. You have to wonder about the development of some of these young DBs.
Nick: Yeah. We both talked about how good we thought the defensive back class was, but there were some guys. I think CJ Henderson’s a guy that needs to be developed. I think Shawn Davis is a guy that needs to be developed. I think Donovan Stiner’s a guy that needs to be developed. Now you’ve got to wonder who’s going to be the one doing that developing.
Andrew: Right. We’ll go ahead. They hired Corey Bell, who was a high school coach before he went to FAU. Was it FAU or FIU? I think it was IU. Then he went to South Florida, just got hired by Charlie Strong at South Florida. Doesn’t have a ton of background with DBs. He played the position and all that stuff, but he doesn’t have a ton. You have to wonder how much can he develop the position? Playing the position he should be able to, but how big of a technician is Corey Bell as far as DB goes?
They’re going to need that developing with these guys that they’ve got coming up, these guys that are still young on the team, like Quincy Litton, like a Jawaan Taylor, like McWilliams, MacArthur Burnett, those guys plus this recruiting class. Even guys like Marco Wilson need these guys to develop them.
Nick: All of them. Jalen Tabor will tell you, and Quincy Wilson will tell you, that they’re not what they are right now. They had to be developed. They weren’t that when they were 18. Both of those guys are probably going to be first round draft picks. They weren’t first round draft picks at 18 years old. They learned a lot from T Robb, Trevaris Robinson. They learned a lot from Torrian Gray.
Andrew: Exactly. That was something that was the hit on Kirk Callahan was that he wasn’t really developing those guys.
Nick: Notice I didn’t say they were developed by Kirk Callahan.
Andrew: That’s what I’m saying. It’ll be interesting to see really how Corey Bell develops these guys. He has a history of playing the position at South Carolina, so it’ll be something to absolutely watch going forward. It will just be interesting, because you do lose a very experienced technician at the position.
Nick: That’ll be interesting. Bell’s young, relatively young. He’s only 45. It was interesting, he was drafted, but didn’t play in the NFL. Went back to Miami Edison, his high school, and was named the head coach there at just 25 years old. He’s not even 10 years older than his seniors. He was there for 10 years. Then he went to University of Miami. He was their director of football operations during the time that Randy Shannon was head coach. He also played defensive back at South Carolina when Chris Rumph was there. There’s two connections to the current staff.
He spent the last two years at Florida Atlantic, FAU, before they fired their head coach. They hired Kiffin. He brought his own guys in, and then Charlie Strong. I do think that Charlie Strong is a good judge of character, and probably a good judge of coaches, so, to me, maybe you say, “If Charlie Strong thought highly enough of him to bring him on to his initial staff, maybe that’s a good note for Florida.”
Andrew: Right.
Nick: Kind of relatively inexperienced as far as this will certainly be the most pressure packed job he has.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: We kind of talked about that at Florida with the hires. A lot of fans say, “I’m tired of Jeremy Foley hiring people learning on the job. I’m tired of him hiring people with training wheels. Ron Zook, Will Muschamp, stop hiring these first time head coaches.” Now you’re looking at a guy who, when Torrian Gray came over you said, “Sure it’s the ACC, but Virginia Tech’s been a big player in the ACC, and he’s earned his stripes there, recruiting there, coaching there.” When you’re looking at a guy that really the coaching experience is only coming a couple years at Florida Atlantic, which is, what is that? The Sunbelt? No, Conference USA.
Andrew: Now it’s the AAC or whatever.
Nick: Okay. That’s not really the same as now you’re going up against someone on Nick Saban’s staff, someone on Kirby Smart’s staff.
Andrew: That’s the thing. I think that’s what’s a little worrisome for me is his lack of coaching experience at the college level at DB. It’s not a place you want to learn on the job at. To be honest, Mac and those guys can’t really afford that. This is going into a year where they needed that. We’ll see on that.
The other hire, and this might even have been a more questionable hire, was the hiring of Brad Davis. He was the offensive line coach at North Texas, and comes on board. I’m going to be honest, Nick, when I heard the name Brad Davis I said, “Who? Where’d he come from?” Didn’t know anything about him at all. He was at North Texas, and the previous year he was at East Carolina. He coached offensive line at both places. Was on the National Championship at Oklahoma in 2000. He has experience doing it. He’s just a relatively unknown name. To be fair, name 10 offensive line coaches in America. Most people would be hard pressed to find that.
Nick: It’s an interesting predicament there. Like you, I did most of my learning about Brad Davis on Saturday.
Andrew: Yeah. Again, I’ll say this. I did watch some tape on him, did watch some things on him. A fiery ass coach. That’s something Mac wanted was a fiery coach, and that’s exactly what he’s getting in Davis is a fiery coach, in your face. He is what I call a prototypical offensive line coach, that is one of the guys that’s probably going to be the meanest guy on staff, is going to be the guy that you probably don’t want to mess with, and who’s not afraid to jump in your face and tell you how bad you suck when you suck. That’s what Mac wanted, and that’s what he’s getting from him.
Has some connections to New Orleans, was born in Baton Rouge, is from there. He has plenty of experience, like I said, played at Oklahoma. He knows what it takes to go big time football. This one is going to be more about he’s going to have to sell himself. His background, kind of like Corey Bell, isn’t exactly going to sell itself to recruits. He’s going to definitely have to go out there and sell it for himself.
Nick: Do you know anything about his recruiting prowess?
Andrew: Zero. Absolutely nothing, except for what I’ve been told, and that is that he relates well to his players, and has done well recruiting at the two places he’s been. It’s like, how does that adjust to the SEC ball? If that makes sense. Jury’s still out on Davis’ recruiting. Heard good things about him, just don’t know enough about him.
Nick: It’s too early even now to say, where are they going to be?
Andrew: Exactly.
Nick: As far as where do you go. That’s telling though. We can talk about that. That’s very telling of where do they put each coach.
Andrew: This is where I see an issue for me. You and I talked about this, and you lightheartedly disagree with me, but I know you being serious you don’t disagree with me. This is a lot of hands that are just tight in South Florida right now. I say that knowing that Shannon and Dixon can recruit outside of South Florida. I’m sure Jajuan Seider, and I’m sure Corey Bell have, but their ties are South Florida. I know Mac wants to take back South Florida recruiting, but four guys in South Florida, not sure you need that.
You lost your central Georgia connection with Collins. You lost that. Where are you filling that at? Who’s filling the panhandle? None of these guys have much experience recruiting in the panhandle, that kind of stuff. I’m like you, I’m wondering. I don’t know yet until really Mac announces things. Is all the hires and firing, moving on, whatever, done? We think no. We don’t know. I think it’s a wait and see mode as to who goes where.
Nick: Recruit South Florida. Build a wall around South Florida, and a bridge from South Florida to Gainesville. Gator Country recruited me from South Florida. That’s worked out well.
Andrew: I understand that, but you know what I’m saying. I know deep down inside you’re not disagreeing with me.
Nick: No, but my South Florida bias will always win out.
Andrew: It is what it is. University of Alabama, Ohio State, those schools aren’t recruiting just one area. You have to recruit all over. That’s where I’m wondering is who goes where in this process. Without knowing a ton about Davis I’m not sure exactly where all he’s been recruiting at. With Bell, I know his main area was South Florida, and he recruited other parts of the state. Without learning a ton about him yet, not sure where he’s really dug in at. With Jajuan Seider, he recruited mostly South Florida for West Virginia, and that’s where his big connects are.
Nick: Yeah. There were two guys we mentioned that Seider was able to pick up, Jovon Durante and Tyrek Cole, guys that Florida was recruiting at the time, kind of going up against, but those were also there were some other issues going on there. Maybe Florida wasn’t going full out. I think we’re all right now saying, “That’s a great hire as far as recruiting goes, but might need to see how a class or two plays out.”
The biggest thing for me is that even when you were getting down on the recruiting class of 2017, before the strong finish, I was still saying, “This isn’t the most important class. They’re still behind as far as time and how long.” People were saying I was making excuses for them, and maybe I was. When you get to this point, Year 3, now you should be caught up. To me, it’s like you’ve gotten rid of most of a staff that went back to back SEC Championships, and a staff that had been building those relationships for two years. Now, to me, you’re adding three new guys who maybe Seider has some of those relationships, but these other guys haven’t been really recruiting the same kind of talent from the same area that Florida is. Are you back into that situation now where you should be on equal playing field, but now you’re not, because you’ve got three new guys in?
Andrew: Yes and no. You would hope that the rest of your staff has built good enough relationships with those guys that can help that out. You would hope that’s the case. You would hope that guys like Seider, other guys, Bell, Davis, those guys would have some relationships to help that. You would hope Mac has made those relationships, Nussmeier, Shannon, your coordinators have made those relationships.
The one thing that I do know, and this is something that I’m sure Mac has a plan for, when you see this much coaching turnover you start to see people question the continuity and the stable environment around there. I’m sure that’s something Mac will address.
Nick: You talk about the negative recruiting that happened, and that’s going to be something that’s brought up again.
Andrew: Right. Exactly. There’s a lot of question marks there, but strong recruiters can fend that off. Like I said, Seider is a really strong recruiter. The one difference is now he has to recruit guys that have to make sure they’re going to qualify. He doesn’t get to take those borderline guys anymore. He is a strong recruiter. Then we’ll see on Bell and Davis how they are as recruiters.
I’ll say this. He got a splash with the Seider hire. Fans didn’t react to the Davis/Bell hiring as excited.
Nick: The Seider, that’s been a long time coming. It seems like every year that was rumored. He had a son who was going through cancer, so that was a big thing as far as, “Son’s going through cancer. Son’s going through something that’s incredibly difficult. He’s stable here with these doctors.”
Andrew: Right.
Nick: That always seemed to be an issue. Also, with Seider I think, those two guys I mentioned, Jovon Durante and Tyrek Cole, when they go to West Virginia, and people go onto a recruiting site and see that Jajuan Seider’s the guy. “He’s taking recruits from us,” and it was a name that had already been known. I think maybe that kind of plays into the familiarity of the name. I think plays into what was going on as far as a fan reaction.
Andrew: Right. Exactly. The thing is, and, like I said, I think most should reserve their opinion on Davis and Bell until you get to see them in action and see how they are this spring, and see how they are on the recruiting cycle. Every coach has to get his start somewhere. We’ll see kind of where that is with that. I don’t know a ton about either one of them. I’m not going to act like I do, other than what little bit I’ve researched over the last couple days on those two guys. It’ll just be interesting for it.
Just kind of see where things go and see if there is any more changes coming. Like I said, I do think we both agree that more are coming, simply because Mac hasn’t named their positions yet. To me, it’s pretty cut and dry where they’re going to be if everyone comes back that’s supposed to be back. It’s pretty cut and dry where everyone would be. There’s only so many spots these guys can coach, and there’s only so many spots that are open.
Nick: Yeah. If the coaching changes are done, then you know where everyone’s going.
Andrew: Right. That to me is what’s interesting when there was no positions named when they were announced.
Nick: I’ve been told that’s coming this week.
Andrew: Right, but does that mean more changes are coming? Probably.
Nick: We’ll know soon, because this week has already started.
Andrew: Exactly. That’s where that kind of goes there. We’ll see. It’s big recruiting changes coming. They do have their first Junior Day, really their second Junior Day, as they kind of had one the second to last weekend. You’ll be able to get a better feel of really how these coaches are after this weekend. You’ll be able to see who they get to come on campus. Are they able to get as many good prospects to come on campus? Then how do they relate once they are on campus?
Nick: What are we looking for this weekend as far as visitors, number, anyone in particular?
Andrew: Still trying to gather that list. Should get that list by the end of the week for that, and then we’ll talk about that on Friday’s episode when we talk baseball and softball. We’ll talk about that then. I just think for me it’s important to see where things go this weekend, see how these coaches are able to relate and are able to get prospects on campus. We already heard about Seider calling prospects down in South Florida. We’re just going to be able to see where things go this weekend. For me, this starts to tell the picture of how these guys are as recruiters. A great recruiter can get prospects on campus. We’ll see where these guys go.
Nick: He’s a fun Twitter follow too.
Andrew: Absolutely.
Nick: He’s on his gif game, like me.
Andrew: Everything I’ve heard about him is he’s a nice guy and all that good stuff. We’ll definitely see where it is. I’ll say this, and that is that Mac has made changes. Everyone harped on Mac to improve, and I think Mac realized that he needed to make some changes, and he did. Like I said, first glance at Brad Davis is he’s a fiery offensive line coach. He’s an offensive line coach I love. I’ve said this from Day 1 about Mike Summers, and that is he might be a great technician, but you got to be a chew your ass kind of offensive line coach to win at offensive line. Your offensive line coach should be the meanest son of a gun on the planet.
Nick: That was always an interesting dynamic, because offensive line coaches are the dip-spitting, dip-swallowing coaches.
Andrew: The grab your helmet, yank you up by your face mask, tell you.
Nick: Yeah. The offensive line coach is the one that his forehead’s bleeding, because he grabbed your face mask and headbutted you. You don’t know if he’s mad or angry.
Andrew: Exactly.
Nick: Mad or happy. You never know if the offensive line coach is happy or mad, because he’s always yelling, no matter what emotion it is. He’s just yelling.
Andrew: I think that’s kind of how the offensive line played this year. They played not angry. They played like their coach. See how they are. I want a mean aggressive offensive line, so does Coach Mac. Let’s see it. I want an offensive line that is going to go out there. We say it all the time, playing offensive line is knowing what you’re supposed to do, but then not getting beat by the man in front of you. That is one of the few positions where you can control what happens. A receiver can’t control him getting the ball. A quarterback can’t control a receiver catching the ball. The running back can’t control the run blocking. The offensive lineman can control that he hits his guy in front of him and doesn’t allow him to get past him. He can control that. He can control opening a line man to man. To me, it’s about heart. We’ll see that.
Nick: That’ll be interesting. What do you think Mac is going for?
Andrew: A physical, a guy that is old school. It is what it is. You got to have attitude. I think that’s what he’s going for. I’m cool with it. I’m very cool with it. Again, don’t know very much about him, like I said, but I’m interested to see. I really am. I’m interested to see just how he is.
Nick: I’m interested to see what these guys are as recruiters, even more so than what they are with coaching.
Andrew: I’m going to say this, and maybe it’s cliché. It’s the opposite of what we’ve been saying, and I think we’ve both said this though. It has to be a balance. You can’t be a shitty recruiter and a great coach. You can’t be a great recruiter and a shitty coach. I guess I’m interested as well to see the balance. You can’t just hire great recruiters and no coaches.
Nick: You can get talent on, but you got to be able to develop.
Andrew: Exactly. That’s the problem with Mark Richt, and his boys at Georgia and now Miami. Get the talent, but, as Coach Spurrier said, “They win on Signing Day and talk about they have the best players, but when it comes time to play they’re always talking about the other team’s better than we are.” There you go.
Nick: You’ll always find a way to sneak that in there.
Andrew: I always will find a way. Nick, we got to talk basketball. My oh my, what in the world is going on in the water in Gainesville the last four games? Three straight 30 point wins, and then go up against the fierce rivals of the Kentucky Wildcats and blow them out too.
Nick: Kentucky came in kind of reeling, and that kind of made for a dynamic of Florida’s probably feeling themselves right now, after these 30 point wins.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: A mixture of Kentucky’s coming in not feeling great. Is Florida feeling too good about themselves, and Kentucky’s more focused, because they’ve hit a little slide? Didn’t let any of that happen. These are the games, we talked about you’ve got to win some games on the road. Do I expect Florida to win at Kentucky? I don’t expect them to win at Kentucky, but you should be beating Kentucky at home if you want to put yourself on that level.
Andrew: Right. Exactly. I’ll say this, and I think you’ll agree when I say this. It doesn’t matter if Kentucky was winning 20 straight or losing 20 straight, to beat them like they beat them that’s important for those guys.
Nick: Florida’s a favorite at Georgia this week.
Andrew: Moved up to #17 in the rankings.
Nick: Moved up seven spots.
Andrew: Are now in a tie for second in the SEC with Kentucky, which I guess Florida is technically in second place, because they have the tie breaker behind South Carolina, who South Carolina beat them earlier on the road. Florida gets the chance in a tough week, Nick. They get a home game against South Carolina, and then they have to go to Kentucky here in a couple weeks.
Nick: It’s a grind, but you will go to Kentucky feeling good about this plan. You also need to go to Kentucky feeling like, “Beat them by 22, they’re going to be coming back for us. We put a target on our back, if it wasn’t there before.”
Andrew: Exactly. I’ll say this, and maybe I’m late to the conversation by saying this, but not impressed by Kentucky. Just not impressed. That’s a bunch of individuals trying to play a team game.
Nick: It’s always tough. The way that Cal recruits, the kind of players that Cal gets, the question is always kind of how are you going to get these five guys, who are probably going to be all drafted in the top 10, 12 when the NBA draft comes around, how do you get them to play as a team? I think you look at teams in the past, when you had Boogie and John Wall, and you’ve got all these guys that are on the team, how do you get them to play like a team? These guys are so good that they were on AAU teams where it didn’t matter who else was on the team with them, or who they were playing. Their team was going to win, because they were on it.
Andrew: Right.
Nick: They’re not used to having to play like that. I think Cal’s had a lot of success making that dynamic work I just don’t think they’ve pieced that together yet this year.
Andrew: Yeah. Good point. Mike White’s team is really starting to play and gel together. They still have that lack of offense. It’s like every game they’re going to go three minutes without scoring, and I think that’s a little part on Kevaughn Allen. Kevaughn, in my opinion, just needs to shoot the rock. They always say, “Shooters need to shoot, and you’ll never make a shot you don’t take.” I think Kevaughn tries to be more of a team guy, a pass first kind of guy, and I think at times he just needs to shoot the ball more.
Nick: Be selfish.
Andrew: Be selfish. I’ll be honest, too. I’m the hardest critic on Kasey Hill, but, in my opinion, that Kentucky game was Kasey Hill’s best basketball game of his career. Was hitting jumper after jumper. Was playing great ball. Chris Chiozza coming off a triple double against Missouri. They’re really got that guard combo working together. Then you throw in guys like Eric Hester, that’s starting to play really good as a freshman. Canyon Barry might be their best player right now. Egbunu and Hayes are starting to get better inside, so this team’s really coming along. Defensively they’re solid. Just need to find a way to cut those long stretches that they have in each half of not scoring. Cut those out, you got a complete team.
Nick: How cool was that little …
Andrew: Laser show projector.
Nick: Video projection, yeah. That.
Andrew: I thought it was awesome.
Nick: That was really, really good looking. They cut into it late, but you can see the whole video online. We put the video up on our message board. They cut into it late if you were watching on TV like I was. That was really cool.
Andrew: It was really cool. I think it’s one of those special things you do for a new arena. It was cool to hear Jay Bilas really talk about the arena being so much newer looking. He was talking about how he thought that the arena looked bigger because of it. I thought that was cool. Really interesting to hear, and it’s something that we always talk about, facilities. Facilities is something that that should get some basketball guys looking their way, and then what better way to show off. They had a lot of guys this weekend on campus, and to blow out Kentucky like they did that caught some attention.
Nick: What has been recruits’ reaction to basketball games?
Andrew: You’re asking the wrong person, Nicholas. I cover the gridiron, my man. As far as the few kids I’ve talked to about it …
Nick: No, I’m saying because they bring football players there.
Andrew: Oh, yeah.
Nick: I’m saying that. Is it different with every player? What is it? It might depend on the game and the outcome of the game as well.
Andrew: Let’s see. I’m trying to remember. They played Vanderbilt at home. Who was the other? Right off the top of my head I’m trying to think of the other home game. They had two home games where they hosted prospects. One of them was the Vanderbilt loss. I’m trying to think of the other game that they hosted, but the kids were saying that the environment was great, that it was really loud in there and that stuff. I think that’s a common theme with the rowdy reptiles being as loud as they are. Football players reacted really well, but as far as basketball kids, your boy just don’t have enough time to cover basketball recruiting.
Nick: The rowdies are nuts though.
Andrew: The rowdies are nuts. It’s awesome to see, because only a few of these basketball arenas have that up close. Florida and Duke have that where they’re just right on top of you. I think it’s cool. Duke you can touch the player almost. I think it’s really cool. I like it. I think it’s what makes college basketball special.
Nick: There are some arenas, some venues all across the country. I’m actually been able to see a game live in Cameron, it’s actually kind of a dump.
Andrew: Yeah. It’s very old.
Nick: Old building, but that whole dynamic of being right on top of people, it’s really unique. I say Cameron’s kind of a dump, but even being there there was something about it. There’s a mystique to it, the history to it, and you feel that. The camera crazies are, they’re nuts. They’re fantastic. It was fun for me to be there. The building itself is kind of a dump, but it was fun for me to be there.
Andrew: It’s hot.
Nick: So hot. There’s no AC.
Andrew: Exactly. It’ll be interesting to really see how this team responds. I’ll be honest, I thought heading into the Kentucky game off of those three blowout wins, I was sitting here thinking to myself, “Okay, maybe they’re feeling themselves a little much,” but they weren’t. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes continuing on.
Nick: I’m interested to see if there’s a letdown.
Andrew: That’s exactly what I’m saying. Will it be a letdown at Georgia? A team that they had to go into overtime to beat. We’ll see. That’ll be Tuesday night, so that’ll be tonight when you guys are listening to this. Nick, tell the people where they’ll find us. We’ll get out. We’ll see everyone on Friday. We’ll have baseball and softball preview. We’ll talk Junior Day, any other coaching changes. Be a packed on as softball starts down in Tampa on Friday. I’m pumped. Love my softball.
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Nick: Sure would. Hit him up.
Andrew: Absolutely. As always, chomp, chomp. Go Braves. It’s almost baseball season, my friends.
Nick: Nine days till pitchers and catchers report.
Andrew: Eight if you’re a Braves fan.
Nick: Eight for you.
Andrew: As always, Mark, Butch, you suck. Butch, I’m a six star.
Nick: You’re a six. You stay classy, Gator Country.