This edition of the Gator Country podcast we discuss who won postseason awards for the Florida Gators football team plus who got snubbed.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down who was deserving of being on the postseason award teams but wasn’t and which Florida Gators player were on those teams.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew: Hello, my friends at Gator Country. This is your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, say hello to the people.
Nick: What’s going on, everybody? We are making our way closer and closer to the Citrus Bowl. This week is SEC award week. Andrew did not get SEC All Goat team, so let us know how you feel about that. Andrew sure isn’t happy about it.
Andrew: Not happy about it, but it doesn’t matter what the SEC says, I’m National Goat of the Year. That’s the biggest thing. Then Twitter gives me that award, and I like that, because that is a people’s award.
Nick: People’s Choice Award.
Andrew: Yes. It means the people appreciate me. The people appreciate me, and the people are what I’m here for. I’m here for you guys, the people. It’s all about you guys.
Nick: You’re a man of the people.
Andrew: I’m a man of the people. That’s right. The people are what makes Andrew Spivey great. That should me my new slogan.
Nick: You’re going to go with that one?
Andrew: You know how some of these politicians say, make America great again? I’m going to say. I don’t know. I don’t know what it is. Help me figure that out. If you’ve got a line on Twitter, shoot it to me, and if I like it I’m going to use it as my slogan on my Twitter page. Right now I’m just going to say, Andrew Spivey, the Goat. Mr. Goat.
Nick: Senor Goat.
Andrew: Senor Goat. No. I don’t like foreign stuff. Just Sir Goat, Mr. Goat, the Goat. Something like that, the great one.
Nick: The great one.
Andrew: I think I should be on the, what’s the little thing with the presidents out there, the mountain thing? What’s it called?
Nick: Mount Rushmore.
Andrew: Mount Rushmore. I think they should have one with myself on there.
Nick: Just you.
Andrew: Just me.
Nick: The Andrew Spivey
Andrew: Rushmore.
Nick: Mount Spiveymore.
Andrew: I don’t like that.
Nick: We can work on that.
Andrew: The Mount Goatmore. Maybe some of these guys that got awards this week, maybe they’re up there as well. A couple of ones that I’m upset about.
Nick: We’ll rewind it. On Tuesday the All SEC teams were released. That was first team, second team. Florida had five players, Vernon Hargreaves, Jalen Tabor, and Jon Bullard were on the first team. Vernon Hargreaves is the first player in Florida history, and I believe the first player in SEC history, to be a three time first team All SEC player. This is the first time for Jalen Tabor and Jon Bullard to be on the first team. Antonio Morrison for the second year in a row was second team, and punt man Johnny Townsend, first time for him to be named All SEC. He came in on the second team.
Andrew: Big for those guys. To me, Bullard deserved it. All those guys deserved it. Townsend was a guy that I was torn on. I thought he should have probably been first team.
Nick: Drew Kaser, who was the first teamer at Texas A&M, also a very good punter. I know my Aggie friends had a campaign two years ago to make him the Heisman that they started at SEC Media Days.
Andrew: I guess, as far as everybody else goes I’m okay with that. The one guy that I thought maybe could have found his way on there was a guy like McAlister, even though he didn’t play at the end of the year. I thought that he could have found his way on there. I thought he got slighted because he didn’t play at the end of the year a little bit.
Nick: I think I agree with you. He only played in 9 games out of a possible 13 for Florida. One was a suspension earlier in the year. I think that fact, that he only played in 9 games, kind of holds him back. Then even playing in 9 games he had 6.5 sacks. You think if he plays in 13, 12 that he probably pushes that sack total up into double digits.
Andrew: Here’s the other one that I’m pissed off about. Where is Jarrad Davis and Kiki? You can make the argument Jarrad Davis had a better year than Morrison.
Nick: Yeah. You absolutely can.
Andrew: You can make that argument. You can make that argument very clear. This is my issue with the SEC team. It is a name driven deal of who’s the biggest name of it all. It’s not coaches voting for this thing. It’s some swampy little dude that’s SID who’s sitting in his office that’s never played football before voting for it. Same thing with voting for the Coaches Poll. It needs to change. Either throw this crap away or make the coaches get on a teleconference and vote. One of the two. These little SID guys that have never played ball before should not be voting in this thing, and that irks me to no end.
Nick: Coaches are very busy.
Andrew: That’s fine. So throw it away. Let us vote. Let the media vote.
Nick: I have problems with the media voting. I know that when I have a 3:00 game I’m seeing a little bit of the 12, and then maybe the end of an 8:00 game. As a media member I’m in the press box. I’m working all day. A 3:00 game I’m not seeing full games. I’m looking at box scores at the end of games. I’m watching previous games of Florida’s opponents, but Florida’s only playing the SEC East and two teams in the West.
Andrew: Who do you think could do a better job? You or could the SIDs who watch zero games, including Florida’s games? Who do you think does a better job?
Nick: I don’t know. Maybe a combination of both.
Andrew: Maybe let the national writers do it.
Nick: Here’s another thing. In these polls coaches can’t vote for their own players. So that’s also something that goes into it. Kentucky was actually the only team not to have a player listed.
Andrew: Who made it for Vandy?
Nick: Where is my list? You’re asking all the hard questions.
Andrew: I don’t know. I rarely pay attention to it, because I think it’s a joke. You and I sit in the SEC in Hoover, and we vote for our SEC Media Day teams. You and I, we have conversations about it. We’ll see. I think that some of these guys don’t have conversations about it. I think some of these guys don’t vote for it. Jarrad Davis, Keanu Neal being left off that team is absurd to me. I’ll even say this. Having Vernon as a first team All SEC was absurd to me. He wasn’t even the best cornerback on the Gators team this year.
Nick: Florida had both of the first team defensive backs, or half of the first team defensive backs.
Andrew: That’s what I’m saying. Could you argue that someone else? Does Vernon make the team because it’s Vernon Hargreaves? Probably.
Nick: There’s some name recognition that goes into it for sure. I still think, even though he missed basically two games with hamstring and then with the stomach illness, I still think he had a very good season. He finished tied for fourth with four interceptions. Third or fourth in yards off of those interceptions. I think he had a good year. There’s always, and we’ll get into the all-freshman team when we talk about players that might have a gripe.
Andrew: That’s right. Again, it is what it is. Here’s another one. I ain’t even talked about this. Marcus Maye makes All American USA Today and doesn’t even make the SEC team.
Nick: There is so many All American teams though. Florida recognizes five. Every website now has an All American team. That’s what get guys bricks outside. That makes sure that your name is forever going to be on campus and around the stadium. Those All American teams that they recognize, that Florida does, is the Walter Camp, the AP, the FWAA, the Football Writers Association of America, Sporting News, or the AFCA. Those are the only five. Even though Marcus Maye was an All American that All American status does not earn him a brick.
Andrew: You know what, Nick? You and I are going to make an All American team for the SEC. I’m serious.
Nick: Is Treon Harris your quarterback?
Andrew: For the doo-doo team. No. You know what though? I don’t know. I don’t know who would be my quarterback. Would it be Dak? I don’t know. I’d have to think about that. Probably Dak.
Nick: We’ll come out with ours next week.
Andrew: We will come out with ours next week, unlike the SEC we’ll actually work on ours. We actually do our homework.
Nick: Yikes. Then the next big news came out on Wednesday, and that was, rightly so, Jim McElwain was named the SEC Coach of the Year. He is the sixth different coach in Florida history, joining Ray Graves, Charlie Pell, Galen Hall, Steve Spurrier, and William Larry Muschamp as coaches who have won the SEC Coach of the Year award. He also joins Ray Graves and Steve Spurrier, who are the only coaches who won that award in their first season. Graves won it in 1960, and Spurrier won it in 1990. The job that Jim McElwain did in turning this program around, by all means. I understand that fans kind of got upset the way this season ended. By all means, Florida is a year, at least one year ahead of schedule being able to start the year 6-0, win 10 of your first 11 games. Nobody expected this.
The job that Jim McElwain was able to do, basically with less than a full deck of cards, was pretty incredible. I know it’s an award for one coach, but I think it goes to everybody there. Doug Nussmeier, Geoff Collins, Randy Shannon, Kurt Callahan, all the way down to Drew Hughes and the guys recruiting. Florida had some big freshmen make impacts this year, so you can’t forget about the job that these guys did recruiting. For a while, when Florida was looking for a coach, it was basically just Hughes doing the recruiting and trying to keep the class together. It is an award for McElwain, but I think it kind of goes to the entire coaching staff.
Andrew: That’s exactly right, and that’s a great point. As Mac would say to you, that’s a great question. That’s pretty cool. You’re exactly right. That’s exactly how it is. This is a coaching staff that as a whole did an incredible job. You and I have praised Tim Skipper all year long. He deserves praise. The job Kerry Dixon did with these receivers deserves praise. Mike Summers, he always deserves praise there. Kurt Callahan doing really well. I say Kurt Callahan might be the reason Marcus Maye’s playing really good football. Then you look at Randy Shannon, the job he did with those guys as well. From top to bottom, from the recruiting staff of Hughes, Kevin Barbay, all the quality assistants. Those guys did a great job, and you can tell that this is now an organization, as Mac says, that is incredible.
Nick: Yeah. Top to bottom. It might be Jim McElwain kind of steering things, but there are a lot of pieces that have to be moving congruently, that have to be in sync. Congratulations to Coach McElwain, but I think he would also be the first one to tell you that this is not a singular award, but definitely deserved.
Andrew: Definitely deserved. It’s a thing that had he not gotten the award it’d been a screw job. No problem saying that. It’d been a screw job. How he’s not National Coach of the Year is beyond me.
Nick: Yeah. It was kind of perplexing to me. Jim McElwain and Jim Harbaugh were both left off of even the list to be considered, and Clemson’s Dabo Sweeney was the recipient of the award. Clemson’s won all their football games, but he’s been there a while. I think the kind of resurgence and the kind of reclamation jobs that Harbaugh and McElwain have done maybe deserved a little more consideration than Dabo, who’s been there for a while and is playing with his kids. Harbaugh and McElwain are playing with other guys’ kids and getting the job done.
Andrew: You can even make an argument that Kirk Ferentz deserves it. I’m not an Iowa guy.
Nick: Yeah. Iowa had a great season.
Andrew: I’m not an Iowa guy, didn’t think they were a great football team, but at the end of the day they only had one loss, and nobody expected them to have one loss. There’s a lot of, I don’t know, it is a lot of whatever. Again, it’s a joke award. They’re going to give it to Dabo Sweeney, and fine, but Dabo’s had one loss for what, the last three years? It’s like he improved one game.
Nick: I think they were 10-3 last year.
Andrew: Okay. I don’t know. I remember hearing him talking the other day about how one loss has kept them out of the playoff for the last few years. I don’t know. I don’t keep up with the record. Being that, they’ve been a team that’s been high in the rankings forever, so you improved just a tad, get to the playoff, and now you’re Coach of the Year. Come on.
Nick: Dabo’s been there since 2008. It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long, but they were 11-2 in 2012, 11-2 in 2013, 10-3 in 2014. They finished 2nd in the Atlantic Conference of the ACC. Obviously won it this year. It’s interesting. A lot can be said. When we were talking about Florida when they were 6-0, and you said they’ve won all their football games. There is something to be said for that. Winning on Saturday is not easy. So there is something to be said for a coach who has gotten his team to win all their football games, whether it’s been pretty at times or not. Every time they’ve stepped on the field they’ve walked off with a win.
With that being said, been there for this is his eighth season, so now he’s had two full recruiting cycles. He’s playing with his guys. It’s kind of what we’d mentioned Alabama and Florida in the SEC Championship. Nick Saban’s been at Alabama for nine years. He’s had two full recruiting cycles. He has a factory, an establishment in place. Harbaugh and McElwain do not. They’re building. Both teams were supposed to be rebuilding, both now with three losses. I think 9-3 and 10-3. It’s just you wonder what goes into the consideration and what things are being considered.
Andrew: Yeah. That’s what I was going to say.
Nick: What about Herman at Houston?
Andrew: Yeah. There’s another one. Or check this out. What about Navy’s coach? That’s what I’m saying. There is several guys. I’ll throw another one out. Will Taggart at South Florida. There’s a lot of names. What’s his name? Justin Fanard or whatever his name is at Memphis. There’s several guys that you could have told me that did really good jobs for their team, and then you’re going to throw this award at somebody like a Dabo Sweeney who’s been doing. I don’t know. Maybe we should have an award of New Coach of the Year, or Rookie Coach of the Year, whatever you want to call it. First year at the job. Again, that’s another rob job. Some swamp donk SEC SID picked this junk. Congratulations, nerds.
Nick: Then on Thursday, yesterday, a pair of Gators were named Freshman All SEC. Now when I say a pair, we were thinking about guys, Antonio Callaway, Cece Jefferson, Martez Ivey, and Fred Johnson as four freshmen who had huge roles for Florida this year. Only half of them make the list. That is Martez Ivey, who started the last seven games of the year, all at left guard, and Cece Jefferson, who made three starts this year, once inside at tackle and twice at that rush linebacker/defensive end spot. Those two make it. Congratulations to them. Fred Johnson was probably the long shot in that group, and Antonio Callaway, started every single game at wide receiver for Florida, was fantastic on special teams. Left off the list.
Andrew: Do you want to start, or do you want me to start?
Nick: I want you to start.
Andrew: You want me to start. Okay. Christian Kirk, Calvin Ridley. It is Calvin, right? Cavin’s the younger brother, so Calvin.
Nick: Yes.
Andrew: Both very deserving, both of them are great football players. Antonio Callaway’s right there as a great football player. So if you’re going to put Kirk at returner, put Callaway at receiver. If you’re going to put Kirk at receiver, put Callaway at returner. You can’t leave off Callaway. You’re basically telling me he wasn’t one of your top freshmen on the team. In my opinion the three best freshmen in the SEC this year were those three receivers. Find a way to get all three of those receivers on there.
Nick: You could even do a co thing at returner.
Andrew: Yeah, or a co at receiver. Once again, these SIDs who have no idea what they’re doing make a mockery of this SEC team. It is a mockery that Antonio Callaway, the best player on the 18th ranked Florida Gators, did not make the All SEC team because of an SID who has no idea what he’s doing. It’s a mockery of the team, and I could care less what the rest of that SEC team is, because it means nothing to me. Nothing.
Nick: Well, Kirk and Ridley had more catches, yards, touchdowns, receiving yards per game than Callaway did, both of them playing on a much more effective offense, which plays into Callaway’s numbers and into their numbers. Kirk led the entire country in yards per punt return, which is very impressive.
Andrew: Yeah. It’s very impressive. Again, I get it. Christian Kirk’s a very good football player. Calvin Ridley’s a very good football player. I’m not arguing with either one of those two as being bad football players. They’re both very deserving of the award, but you cannot leave Antonio Callaway off the list. You can’t. You cannot leave him off the list, because he is one of the top three freshmen on that team. It is a mockery of the team. I don’t care what they say. Here’s another thing. Who was more valuable to his team?
Nick: That’s not the award. It’s not who’s most valuable to the team. It’s who was the best freshman.
Andrew: Fine. When you’re breaking a tie between the three guys break it down to who was the most valuable to his team. Calvin Ridley was very valuable to his football team. Callaway was very valuable to his team. Christian Kirk played for a sorry Texas A&M football team that sucked this year. He made a punt return against West Texas A&M University of the South, who cares? I don’t. Callaway made a punt return of 80 yards against the #2 team in the country, potential national champions, Alabama in the SEC Championship game when all eyes were on him. Get out of here with that crap of he’s better.
Nick: Christian Kirks two punt returns came in the opening game against Arizona State, and then against Alabama.
Andrew: Ok. Fine.
Nick: Not Texas State, against Alabama and against Arizona State to start the year. Texas A&M only had four losses on the year.
Andrew: Who cares? Florida had two when it matters, SEC Championship game you don’t count that against them. You’re not counting that against them. I’m sorry. I don’t care. They can say whatever they want to. To me the SEC teams are trash to me. Not only do you not put Maye, Neal, Davis on there, but now you leave the best freshman. No. That’s trash. I don’t want no part of that no more.
Nick: I think you have a case. I think you could get all three guys in, but I think all three of them were equally important to their teams.
Andrew: They should, they’ve got to. Got to. They got to figure it out and get that. I don’t know. We’ll figure it out. That’s the freshman team, and we’ll have to see. Next year I think Callaway makes the All American team. Now we got that finally out of the way, Nick. We can go to some calmer things for us, maybe not some calmer things for Florida fans, but the news is going around about guys leaving early, coming back to school. Several of these defensive guys have big decisions to make. A couple offensive guys do as well. I guess, what are you making of things? When do you think all these guys are going to decide?
Nick: I think we’ll get some decisions shortly after the bowl game. Some guys are sending in paperwork this week to the NFL. If you look at it, I put up a story. It went up on Thursday. Bryan Cox, I expect him to stay. Marcus Maye, I think he should stay. He has a big decision coming up. Alex McAlister, I think he should stay, but I think he will go.
Andrew: The other one, the big one, is Keanu Neal. I know Neal’s torn. I really know Neal’s torn. He’s a guy that truly loves representing Florida. I think you would agree that after the game last Saturday, the SEC Championship, he was just upset, frustrated, and it was what you wanted to see out of a guy. Not that the rest of the team wasn’t upset. He was just visibly showing it, continued to say he was sorry and stuff like that. He was just visibly upset about things. I think that while he wants to come back if he gets that first round grade like a lot of people say you can’t expect him to come back. He has nothing to come back for.
Nick: No. Jim McElwain said as much, any guy who gets a first round grade he will encourage them to leave. There’s not anything higher than a first round grade. He plays a position in safety that it’s not a locked down corner. Safeties aren’t going to get drafted in the top five picks. If he has a late first round grade he’s not going to improve that much. If you get a first round grade you should leave. The way the NFL works is that all of the picks are slotted. You’re not really negotiating your first contract. You’re kind of just locked into a certain salary. The important part is getting to your second salary, or your second contract. If Neal can be a first round pick this year, come out, and you get to that second contract quicker.
Andrew: Yeah. That’s what I was going to say. It’s a deal where you have to say coming back to school how much more money do I make? Do I make enough that’s going to offset me for the one more year that I’m going to be in school? One more year that I’m going to lose off of that contract. Unless it’s a guy like Bullard. Last year he got a mid-round draft grade back. I think you can argue that Jonathan Bullard should be picked in the first round this year, if not second round for sure. That’s millions of dollars that’s different.
Unless you can make that up, or you’re a guy like KT. This is no disrespect to KT. Somebody asked me if I hated KT, and I don’t. I really like Kelvin Taylor. I think Kelvin Taylor’s a great guy. He’s going to be a productive football player, but Kelvin Taylor doesn’t get anything for coming back to school. I say that in it’s not like he’s going to get bigger. Kelvin Taylor is what he is. He’s a great vision football player who sees the field well, makes good cuts. He’s shown that to everyone. It’s not that he’s going to come back next year and have more cuts or anything like that or have better vision. He has what he has. He’s going to be a solid football player in the NFL. He’s going to be a second back on a team somewhere, and he’s going to play ball. That’s what I mean when do you get better by doing that.
I go to Demarcus Robinson. Demarcus Robinson’s a prime candidate that I say should get better by coming back to school, but you and I both know that he won’t. He wants to play dancing with the stars, that kind of stuff, and then off the field stuff he probably doesn’t stay clean all next year off the field. If we was able to stay clean off the field next year it’d be great, but you and I both know that’s not going to happen. It is best for him to go ahead and go, but guys like Neal, Maye, Cox, McAlister, guys that are pretty good guys that stay good off the field as well that could improve their game, that’s where they have a decision to make. I just don’t see a decision having to be made for guys like KT and D Rob.
Nick: For me, and I made the argument last year with Matt Jones, running back’s just not a premium position in the NFL anymore. Guys aren’t getting drafted as high as they were. To me, Kelvin Taylor stands to lose more by coming back via injury than he does to gain. If you look at what coming back to school does to Kelvin Taylor it puts him in a deeper backfield. You add Mark Thompson, Lamical Perine. You add the Jordans who are going from freshmen to sophomores. Now he’s in a deeper back field and a deeper draft class. Dalvin Cook, Leonard Fournette, and Nick Chubb will all leave next year. Why would you stay to be in a deeper back field, and you’re not sure how you’ll be used or how those carries will be divvied up, and go into a deeper draft class? To me it’s time for Kelvin to move on and go to the NFL draft. Running back is such a punishing position that if I’m a running back I get to the NFL as quickly as possible, and I try to get to that next contract and make as much money as I can, because running backs in this league last like best case scenario eight years.
Andrew: That’s what I was going to say. It’s a guy like Matt Jones, for instance. Like you said.
Nick: Matt also had a daughter to think about. It’s just the nature of the position.
Andrew: That’s what I was going to say. Like Matt Jones, for instance. Matt Jones was going to get no better by coming back to school. Maybe show he was healthy, but most people knew what he was. He got in there. He’s going to make money on his second contract off of what he’s doing in the NFL right now.
Nick: Yeah. The only thing you would have said is maybe Matt Jones if he stays can show that he can catch the ball, but Washington found that out pretty quick. They’re using him a lot on 3rd downs as a blocker and as a receiver. To me it’s just the nature of the running back position. It doesn’t make sense. If you’re a guy who can play in the NFL, which I think Kelvin Taylor can, it doesn’t make sense to me to stay for a senior year if you’re healthy.
Andrew: Exactly.
Nick: Then Demarcus Robinson, maybe even at this point has overstayed his welcome with some off the field stuff. I don’t ever think Demarcus Robinson had a four year plan.
Andrew: No.
Nick: I think Demarcus Robinson showed up as an early enrollee and had a three year plan. Three years are up. I anticipate him leaving early for the NFL. I would be very surprised if he decided to return for his senior season.
Andrew: Here’s the thing. I don’t even know if they would welcome him back for his senior year.
Nick: It’s like I said. I think he might have gotten to the point where he’s overstayed his welcome.
Andrew: Yeah. Real quick, I want to say this. I think Maye comes back. I think it really depends on if Neal gets that first round draft pick. Wish him the best of luck. That’s great for him.
Nick: That’s what the coaching staff will do.
Andrew: If he doesn’t get a first round draft grade I think he comes back to school. Then you go look at guys like McAlister. McAlister, I don’t even know if he cares about his draft grade. He thinks he’s going to win the underwear Olympics, which is the combine, and then he doesn’t like school as well. Caleb Brantley’s already said he’s coming back, and I think Bryan Cox does as well.
Nick: Jarrad Davis, I think you and I have both been told that he will still submit paperwork. He, kind of like Keanu Neal, is a very emotional guy. He’s telling us after the game, I’m coming back. I don’t see him getting a first round grade, and that’s why I think you’ll see him back. Vernon Hargreaves, never had a four year plan at Florida. Fully anticipate him being a first round draft pick and him being gone. To me you can have possibly even a better defense than you had this year in 2016 if you get guys. You’ve got to think, Alex Anzalone’s back. If you get Jarrad Davis back, Joey Ivie back, Keanu Neal, Marcus Maye. You’re getting all these guys back, and then you have Cece Jefferson, a freshman going into his sophomore year. Taven Bryan, who’s a guy who played a little bit more this year coming off of a redshirt year, excited to see what he can do in the future. Florida’s defense might be as good or better if they don’t have a lot of these older guys leave early for the NFL.
Andrew: Yeah. Think about it. Let’s just play what if here. If Maye and Neal come back, huge, because there’s no safety depth after that that is quality safety depth. That would be huge. Jarrad Davis coming back is huge. Caleb Brantley coming back, Cox coming back, and a McAlister possibly coming back, that’s huge. Huge. I think one of Maye and Neal coming back is huge. You have the possibility of getting what I call five star commits by these guys staying in school. I think we can both agree. Florida’s offense next year will not be as shitty as it was this year. Agree?
Nick: We need to see what happens at quarterback, but…
Andrew: I think Jim McElwain’s not going to let this happen again. I think it’ll be at least productive somewhat to where if the defense, it’s not going to be as good as it was this year, but if it’s decent to where it’s the top two or three defense in the SEC then you get this team an exceptional chance to get back to Atlanta, because quite frankly next year’s schedule sucks.
Nick: Pretty weak schedule next year. I think, this is a little role reversal, I think Florida’s defense will be better next year. Obviously you got to make up for Jonathan Bullard, but there are some very talented guys, and if you get most of these guys back that is going to be a talented defense. I think on offense it really starts at quarterback. Luke del Rio’s an unknown commodity. If you’re going to with a freshman that’s an extremely unknown commodity, and you have to expect there to be a learning curve and some growing pains. Then is Will Grier, what is he going to look like after a year off of football coming back in Week 7? A lot of question marks on offense still.
Andrew: That’s exactly right. A lot of question marks. We’ll see. You’re not going to throw on this defense next year. Quincy and Jalen, you’re not going to throw on this defense very often. I don’t know. Let’s wrap this up. Let’s get out of here. Next week we’ll have plenty of recruiting recap. Myself, I’m going to be at the Alabama/Mississippi All Star game this weekend. See my dude, Lamical Perine and Jawaan Taylor. Jeremiah Moon and Quincy Litton are also playing the game. Mack Wilson’s in the game. We’ll have plenty of stuff from that. If you got any questions you want me to ask them, shoot them to me at my Twitter or on the website, one of the two. We’ll have plenty of Jacob Eason watch next week.
Nick: That’s what everybody wants to know. Where is Jacob going?
Andrew: This is funny. I have friends that are Alabama fans, Auburn fans. We talk Alabama stuff, but my buddies are calling me out of the woodwork like, where’s this Jacob Eason kid going to school? I’m like, shut up. Don’t act like the rest of these members. Don’t act like Florida fans. Don’t call me asking me about Eason. I told you, our boss, Big Ray, wants to know where it is. I’m like, guys, you’re abusing this privilege of my cell phone. Don’t ask me. I don’t know.
Nick: It’s a job hazard.
Andrew: It’s a job hazard. It really is. If I hear where’s Jacob Eason going again I just want to throw my phone. I want $50 for every time someone asks me that question, and I’ll retire tomorrow.
Nick: Everyone tweet @AndrewSpiveyGC #where’sjacob.
Andrew: I will literally block you.
Nick: #whereisjacob.
Andrew: I will block you. I block people right, left, sideways, and everywhere else. If you tweet me that question I’m literally blocking you. Seriously, I will block you. Don’t tweet me that.
Nick: #where’sjacob. You can find me @NickdelaTorreGC, @AndrewSpiveyGC, @GatorCountry on Twitter. TheGatorCountry on Instagram. Got to plug myself, NickdelaTorre on Instagram. I post great photos, great captions. Go follow me there. Double tap the picture. www.GatorCountry.com. Great news. The recruiting boards are on fire right now. Football boards are steadily strumming along, but the recruiting boards are on absolute fire. Andrew has to keep his phone plugged in constantly to keep up with it all. Go to Gator Country. Join now. Andrew’s got a discount for you. Become a member. Join the family. That’s all I got.
Andrew: That’s right. Join the family. Get up to date. News is coming hot, heavy. Orlando is going to be on fire in a couple weeks as we take over the Citrus Bowl and Under Armor game, and then senior bowl week. Then signing day. As always, Butch, Mark you know the deal. As always, go Braves. Chomp, chomp.
Nick: You stay classy, Gator Country.