GatorCountry brings you a new podcast that’s loaded with news on the Florida Gators football team including the big news that seven Gators will miss the Michigan game.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down what happened and talk about how bad the Gators will miss those seven guys.
Andrew and Nick also break down Friday’s scrimmage where the quarterback position had two guys look really good in the Swamp.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Saturdays and Sundays weren’t supposed to be busy.
Nick:I was supposed to be on a boat. I was supposed to be hanging out, chilling. Gators had different plans for me.
Andrew:Yeah. I was supposed to be doing the same. Different things. Saturday started with a whirlwind of smoke, and usually where there’s smoke there’s fire. It broke on Sunday afternoon. We’re taping this Sunday about 5:30, and seven Gator players have been suspended for the season opener against Michigan.
Obviously, Nick and I can’t get too much into the details of the why, simply because Nick nor I want a lawsuit against us. So seven players will be missing the Michigan game. Only one starter, if you want to look on the bright side of anything.
Nick:There’s a way to go about reporting stuff, and channels you go through as a journalist to fact check and get sources. You can’t go on just one or just two. If you’ve got 10 people telling you 10 different things, that doesn’t mean you have 10 sources. It means you’re probably getting run around by people. Sometimes you have to sit on stuff. We know about stuff that’s going on, and you can’t talk about it, because there’s an integrity that you have to have when you’re a journalist. You never want to drag somebody’s name through the mud when they’re not involved, and that can happen.
If we run with stuff the first time we hear it, I’m sure you’ll agree with this, most times the first time you hear a story is not 100% accurate. You have to go through channels and talk to a bunch of other people, and you never want to accuse somebody or put somebody’s name out there that isn’t involved in a situation. Then you get a player, player’s uncle, brother, friend, and I Google my buddy’s name, “I wonder what he’s doing up at Florida.” Now all of a sudden there’s a bad Google search for him for something that he didn’t do.
To me, you just have to be careful, and I think your buddy, Trey, up there in Nashville, I think he did a good job reporting it on his site. He runs the ReadOption.com, and he has the Ultimate SEC Show. I think he did a really good job and really went about dotting his I’s and crossing his T’s before he put stuff out there. It was pretty accurate.
Andrew:Yeah. I think it’s one of those things. It’s where you better be right, and even if you are right, it’s one of those situations where there was no proof. There is no hard evidence of this. It’s all hearsay. Obviously, we have this confirmed by multiple, multiple, and more multiple people. All people we trust and believe. It’s still one of those things where you hold back. Again, we knew there was going to be no criminal accusations. It was just going to be handled internally.
We know one site, I don’t even call it a site. I call it a blog. Posted about criminal charges of felony, all this other stuff. That was never the case. That was false. Had several freshmen involved. Like you say, Nick, you get parents involved, especially these guys that are out of state, when they’re getting called and their parents are like, “What did you do?” The kid’s like, “I don’t know. Why?” They’re getting these reports. It looks bad. It looks bad on these people. What do you expect from some of these people? Hey, Antonio Callaway and Treon Harris got in trouble because of dorm room noises, so what do you expect?
Nick, are you there? Are you still thinking about things?
Nick:It’s just tough. It’s like you and I said, not necessarily that we’re trying to protect the program or anything like that. It’s like you said, you’re protecting kids. Listen, if you do something, and you mess up, it’s not us taking a shot at you or only posting negative stuff. You do something that gets you suspended, that’s news. That’s the case. You just don’t want to get it wrong, and like you said, have somebody’s mom call you, “I talked to my son, and he said he’s not involved in this.” Getting it right is better than getting it first.
Andrew:Right. It’s like you say, you’re not protecting anyone, except for ourselves. At the end of the day, we have to protect ourselves. We have to protect the website and that kind of stuff. You want to be right with it.
Let’s go further with this, and just kind of talk about it. Nick, people on Twitter are saying that they almost would rather Callaway be gone. Nick, I always say this, and that is three strikes, you’re out. I’m just wondering. It’s one of those things where how much is too much and when is enough? Again, I’m not calling for Callaway to be dismissed or anything like that. I do see a reoccurring theme. Do I think fans have some reason to say that? Sure. I’m just starting to wonder if Antonio Callaway’s learning from mistakes.
Nick:Valid question. It’s not the same thing. I guess you could say that. He’s not getting in trouble for doing the same things over and over again. Jim McElwain likes to say it. I think it’s a Thoreau quote, “Your actions speak so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” His actions, it’s just one thing after another.
I think right now I’d have to say no. That’d be my opinion. No, he’s not learning from it. Not to say that when something happens he isn’t truly sorry for doing it, but the repeated actions, even though it’s not the same thing over and over, it’s just repeated actions are putting you, your university, your coaches, your teammates, putting everyone in a bad light.
Andrew:That was my next thought, Nick. At some point or another his teammates are going to get tired of it. They’re going to get tired of him not being dependable. Personally, I think it’s a crossing point for Callaway. I’m not sure you can come back from another mistake, and I think I said this last time, but I think this one is out there enough that it’s very public. You’re missing a game. You’re being suspended now. I think now it’s a situation where he’s going to have to address the team. I won’t say that I think Mac lets the team decide whether he comes back or not.
Nick:I don’t see that.
Andrew:I do think it’s a situation where he has to address the team, and not just Callaway but all of them. I think it’s a situation where he needs to at least admit wrong and letting his team down, and they need to accept him back. It’s like I said. It’s a crossroads.
Nick:If you look at the players, we haven’t even named them all yet. There’s freshman, James Houston, Kadeem Telfort, Ventrill Miller, also Keivonnis Davis, Jordan Smith, and Richard Desir-Jones. Of those seven …
Andrew:James Houston as well.
Nick:I thought I led with Houston. Sorry. Houston, Telfort, Davis, Callaway, Smith, Desir-Jones, and Ventrill Miller. Of the seven, there’s really only two that were going to play, and that would be Callaway and Davis. Kadeem Telfort’s been positioning himself as a backup left tackle, and then Miller and Houston, Houston’s coming off the ACL surgery that caused him to miss his senior year of high school. Really, those two guys.
You look at Antonio Callaway. I see people saying that’s why you recruit. Florida is much better at wide receiver heading into this season then they were last season or the previous season, but you can’t soften this. You can’t soften what taking away your best offensive player, taking that person off the field it’s not good. Do you have other players that need to step up and are talented and can step up? Sure. But there’s no good thing that comes from not having your best player in a marquis game.
You’re nationally televised against Michigan. This is the first time Florida and Michigan have ever played in the regular season. It’s a huge game in Jerry’s World. Now you’re going into that game answering questions about Antonio Callaway and what these six other guys with Antonio Callaway did. It’s not a good thing. There’s no way around it.
Andrew:It’s a huge distraction. It’s a huge distraction. It’s a distraction that you don’t want. You don’t care to have. Outside of missing arguably your best player, it’s a distraction. I say this, and I know I’m going to take some heat for saying this, but Florida’s is back to the point where they’re a national team, and not that ever weren’t, but they’re a team that is being talked about as one of the teams that could make a run this year.
Now all you’re seeing is negative headlines with, right now, kind of their face of their program in Callaway, because he’s probably the biggest name guy there is. Had you said this last year, you could have said Teez Tabor, that kind of stuff, but now you’re looking at kind of the face of your program in a bad light.
It kind of kills all the positive that you had all throughout the summer. This time last week we’re sitting here talking about big commits. Damien Pierce committing, all the big commits. Then last week we were talking about how great it was that James Robinson’s talking up Mac. Everything was heading in a positive direction, and then you get this kind of kick to the stomach.
Nick:How quickly the narrative changes.
Andrew:Yeah. Now it’s simply, and I say this knowing the answer, Mac has control, but people now can say, “Does Mac have control?” That kind of stuff.
Nick:A lot of people are questioning how many strikes does he get. How many chances does Antonio Callaway get? I think that plays. When you mentioned James Robinson and how Jim McElwain went out on a limb for him, kind of stuck his neck out for him, do you start to question that? Yourself, personally. Do you start questioning how many chances does somebody get? Is it every player? Is it just a star player? Do you treat players differently? I think those are some things that Jim McElwain, fairly or unfairly, will now have to start hearing those questions asked.
Andrew:Yeah. It is what it is, and that is that he’s gotten a lot of chances. Like it or not, other players see that, and other players may or may not take advantage of it. It is what it is out there. For our sake, Nick, I don’t think Antonio Callaway deserves much more time talking about this. I think the spotlight on him needs to go away. I think most people will say this. As good of a player he is, I think most people are kind of fed up with it right now. I can honestly say myself that I’m kind of tired of having to deal with it as well, having to talk about mistake after mistake.
You said that’s the only starter, and I agree with that. I think the other guy that was going to probably see some snaps was Keivonnis Davis.
Nick:He’s definitely in that rotation.
Andrew:Yeah. That’s a thing that’s going to hurt. I think Ventrill Miller was a guy that could see snaps some. I don’t think he was. Kadeem Telfort was a backup. Houston’s still rehabbing. The rest of the guys were kind of non-factors in the thing. Again, it’s just the negative light on the situation that stings and sucks. We’re taping this on Sunday. Instead of Monday’s press conference Mac talking about the scrimmage, which we’re about to talk about here in a second, being a good one, he’s going to spend half his press conference talking about how dumb seven players were.
Nick:You know what might happen. We might get the most information about a scrimmage that we’ve ever gotten at Florida. Jim McElwain might walk in tomorrow and just hand out two hours of tape. Like, “Hey guys, here. Here’s a PDF. You can upload this to your site. Here’s the stat sheets, and here’s the coach’s film. We filmed Coach Davis going over the coach’s film with the offensive line, so you can see that. Talk about anything else other than this suspension.” We might get the most scrimmage talk and notes we’ve ever gotten tomorrow from Jim McElwain.
Andrew:Johnny’s the starting quarterback tomorrow.
Nick:Yeah.
Andrew:You got to have a little fun with it. Let’s move on, Nick, because seven stupid players, and I say stupid. I don’t mean stupid. They’re not stupid people. They just made stupid mistakes. Seven stupid mistakes from players is not it. There was still a really good scrimmage, and you and I heard some really good things. We’ll kind of start breaking that down a little bit.
Quarterback play, of course, is going to be the situation everyone wants to know about. Like it or not, we heard that Franks and Del Rio both looked really good throwing the ball. We heard Zaire did things well with his feet. That’s kind of what he is. I don’t know if he’s going to be that guy that stands in the pocket for five seconds and then throws a great post route across the middle. I’m just not sure that’s the type of player Malik Zaire is.
Again, Franks and Del Rio continue to be the guys that when it’s big throw, stand in the pocket throwing across the middle, those are the two guys that are doing it well. I know both of them had multiple touchdowns, including Franks with a big one in the red zone. Both did have one interception. I’m going to be interested to hear what Mac says. Friday he says he thought he would learn a lot, and this can take one guy a step forward. I would be curious to know if he admits one step forward for someone, and if it is, I think it’s either Franks or Del Rio.
Nick:126. That is where Florida ranks in red zone scoring percentage last year.
Andrew:Can I make an argument?
Nick:126th in the country. There are 128 teams. Only Rutgers was worse. Florida tied at 126 with Indiana.
Andrew:Can I make an unpopular statement here? It’s going to be unpopular.
Nick:I thought you were the Goat, whatever you say becomes popular.
Andrew:Maybe so. Let’s hope so. If Del Rio wins the job, and nobody’s going to like to hear that.
Nick:I can’t wait to see the reaction to that. Go ahead.
Andrew:I think people should see the Michigan game out first. I say that tongue in cheek, because I’m laughing, and I’m laughing because I’m looking at my Twitter timeline just blowing up with hate. If Del Rio wins the job, people are like, “That would be stupid.” If Del Rio wins the job, he’s the best guy there. Don’t you want the best quarterback playing?
Nick:I always bring that up. I don’t understand why people take a hard-line stance on whether it’s quarterback, any position battle. If it’s that guy, I don’t want him playing. If he’s playing, it means he’s better than the other guys in practice, or the coaches feel that he’s better, gives you a better chance to win. So, to me, it’s kind of like, what do you mean you’re out? “I’ll turn the TV off if Luke Del Rio’s the starting quarterback.” Why?
Andrew:Yeah. Why? That’s my thing. When they say, “We want it to be Malik.” If Malik’s your third best quarterback, why? They say, “We want it to be Franks, because he’s going to be here longer.” Remember, Del Rio has another year after this year as well. Why does it matter? I’m not sure of why it matters. Then they say, “Del Rio wasn’t good last year.” He was also hurt last year, and also neither was Franks. If Franks can get better, why can’t Del Rio get better?
Nick:I also, I know I mentioned it to you, I don’t know if … Jim McElwain really cares about his players. We talked about that. I think he feels bad for putting Del Rio into that Arkansas game. I think he feels bad, because he put him in a bad situation. A player is never going to tell you, “No. I can’t play.” That’s how you get Wally Pipped. Players aren’t going to tell you that. The coach kind of just needs to know that. I think McElwain feels bad about that. I really do think that he feels like Luke Del Rio, what he can bring to the table, the interceptions were high, but only after he was hurt.
It’s like we said all last year leading up to the season, he may not win you games, but he’s not going to lose you games. When he got hurt, he started to do that. I think that’s when you and I both said, he’s starting to cost you games now, that’s when you have to take him out. He’s doing pretty much what you expected him to never do. That was probably due to injury. If he’s the starting quarterback, you ride with him.
Andrew:Now, the good news for Feleipe, Feleipe’s been playing well too. Everyone that I’ve talked to says that Feleipe has really kind of taken the Zaire enrolling at Florida thing as a little bit of a shot at him, and it’s kind of put a chip on his shoulder. Not that it’s a negative thing. It’s a good thing. Mac said competition, and I think it’s a good thing. He’s definitely come out with a sense of urgency. Everyone’s said that he’s doing much better. I will say that I think the guys probably rally around him the best. Now, does he affect the others around him the most, like Mac says? I don’t know that answer yet. Again, we haven’t seen it for ourselves. I can tell you that they think either him or Del Rio does right now.
Again, I think Franks is performing well. We’ll just see how much trust they have in him, because like we said in the spring, when he misses it’s usually misses that cost. The good thing with Del Rio is when he misses it’s not a huge cost. Can Feleipe cut down on those, and then overcome his mistakes with positive things? I think that’s where you’re going to look and see.
To go to the running backs, we did hear that Jordan Scarlett, Perine, those got the one, two carries, the first and second team carries. Scarlett had a really good day. Malik Davis had a good day running with the threes. Had two or three touchdowns. We’ve heard two, and we’ve heard three multiple times. Looks like there’s some depth building there as well. The other day we thought Malik might be the guy that was the odd freshman out. It looks like he might have took a step ahead of Adarius after Scrimmage 1.
Nick:I remember I told you, watching at practice a little bit, he’s got really impressive quickness, and bursts. I really think that I don’t see both of them getting carries. You know what I mean? I don’t know. Jordan Scarlett is kind of fed up with that rotation. I don’t know if you should get too much farther out than Scarlett, Perine, and maybe a third. I don’t know how many of those backs are going to be getting carries.
Every opportunity you get, whether it’s a scrimmage, which is obviously important, or whether it’s running through an over pads at practice. If I’m one of those freshmen, if I’m Lemons, I’m looking at what’s #20 doing? How do you do that rep? I need to do better than him on this rep. Literally could be your freshman season on the line every rep.
Andrew:Right. I agree with you. I think you and I both said it last year, and that was at times it was frustrating to see the rotation, because it seemed like, and Scarlett and Perine are the two guys last year that was doing the best. They would do well, and he would substitute someone else in, and that was when the drive would stall. I think that those two guys will get the bulk of the carries, for sure, but Mac showed he likes to use that third back, since he’s been at Florida. Will it be one of the freshmen?
Nick:You remember that story I wrote before his first year? I went back and looked at all of his running backs, all the way back to like Fresno.
Andrew:He makes you look like a liar.
Nick:I was like, dang, this guy, one year at Alabama one running back had 60% of the carries, and behind him was an eventual Heisman winner in Mark Ingram. I’m just like, this guy’s going to go one guy. Kelvin Taylor might be running for 1,500 yards if he runs this way. Nope.
Andrew:He made you look like a liar.
Nick:Made me look like a damn fool. Which I might be.
Andrew:For real. To talk about the receivers a little bit, we heard Dre Massey had a good day catching passes out of the slot. Kadarius Toney was a guy that scored three touchdowns from the slot, two receiving, and then one rushing on a reverse. Kadarius seems to be a guy, I think, is going to have plays designed for him. I mean, he’s a guy when he gets the ball makes things happen. Mac, everyone, wants to talk about what he’s doing with the ball. He’s a guy that Florida just haven’t had.
When you talk about losing Callaway for the Michigan game, you’re going to need a guy like Kadarius to make things happen. We’ll see just how they work it with him and Massey, and Powell. Powell’s going to get playing time. We’ll see how they work it with that.
Also heard that Hammond and Swain had a solid day, and that James Robinson had some flashes of good plays. The receiver core is there. Especially after Sunday’s news of Robinson going out, you think you’ve got enough fire power at the receiver position.
Nick:That’s, I think, a big thing is when you start to look at impact analysis, stuff like that. Wide receiver, you’re unproven, but very deep. Tell James Robinson, that fast pass that we talked about, you’re going to be up there pretty quickly. Brandon Powell and Dre Massey, guys that will be inside, but Swain, Hammond, Tyrie Cleveland, everyone’s asking you how you’re going to take pressure off Antonio Callaway. How do you do it? The first game he’s not out there. Make people forget that he’s not out there. Go and have yourself a big game.
Andrew:Yeah. Like I said, and we said it last week’s podcast, receiver position is loaded. If you can get James Robinson to give you those five or ten plays, you’re going to be fine. You got Hammond and Swain, and then a guy that seems to be forgotten is Tyrie Cleveland. Let’s face it, he stayed clean. He’s been a guy that’s learned from a mistake, and has done well so far passed that mistake. I think they’ll be fine there.
To move to the defense, another Wilson, Nick. Another Wilson making a big name. Chad Wilson is just producing five-star DBs.
Nick:I keep trying. Gator fans, it’s not my fault. I keep trying to tell Chad and his lovely wife that you guys want another kid. You want a 2035 five-star cornerback. He says he’s done. It’s the last one you guys are getting.
Andrew:Can he adopt one?
Nick:Silk said he’s going to drop his kid off at Chad’s house, pick him up when he’s 18.
Andrew:Yeah.
Nick:Not surprised at all. When Marco Wilson said, “I’m going to Florida,” when he signed on the dotted line there, you and I would have been more shocked if he didn’t have an impactful freshman season. When I hear from people that I talk to around the program that Marco’s looking great, he’s playing with the ones outside and at nickel. I think starting at nickel. I think yeah. That makes sense.
Andrew:Yeah. What we heard is that Chauncey and Nick played safety. Jawaan Taylor played a lot, but then had a hip issue. Supposed to be good to go this week, but had a little hip issue that caused him to miss a little bit of the scrimmage. Putu and Duke and Marco were working corner, with Marco working some nickel as well. With CJ Henderson getting some action, also Shawn Davis, another freshman, getting some action. We’ve heard he’s done really well.
Putu, Duke, Marco look like your starters at corner, with Marco at nickel. Unless Jawaan Taylor comes back and does well. With the injury on the first scrimmage, and Marco taking off, and Putu doing what he needs to do, you’re starting to figure out some things number wise. I can say one thing with Marco, and that is is going to make freshman mistakes? Sure. Is he going to be where he’s supposed to be? You can guarantee it. The Wilson guys are always smart guys. Not only are they great athletes, but you saw last year with Quincy, they’re smart guys. They know where to be.
Nick:They know where to be. They’ve got good footwork, and they’re going to be physical. I actually had a player. It was funny. I had a player tell me that Quincy was the more talkative of the two. I said, “You haven’t gotten to know Marco yet.” Marco’s, I would say more swag like a Tabor than his brother.
Andrew:Absolutely.
Nick:Big talker. If you’re on the field with Marco Wilson, you’re going to know that you’re on the field. You’re going to hear him.
Andrew:Yeah. Marco is definitely Chad Wilson’s son. Chad, we say that because we love you, man. He is definitely going to let you know. Again, Shawn Davis coming up a lot.
Nick:He keeps coming up a lot too. Safety, nickel, kind of a guy like Duke or like Chauncey, where you could see him in a couple different positions. I think really getting to look at second string at safety, but a guy if in a pinch, and if you’re looking at we need to get the best five guys, we need to do a dime. We need the best six guys on the field. He might be pushing himself into that group of six right there.
Andrew:Yeah. Brad Stewart had a pick last week, and he’s in that mix. The one thing I continue to hear with Brad is that Brad’s having those moments where he forgets where he’s supposed to be. That’s what’ll keep you off the field. Obviously, you’ve still got two and a half weeks before Michigan, before you really start pinning things down for Michigan, so he’s got time. He’s right there in the mix as well.
I think we’re going to continue to hear and continue to talk about this defensive back group unit. In that guys are going to get better from Michigan to Florida State. Who starts Game 1 against Michigan might not be who starts Game 12 against Florida State, and it might not be because that guy that started got worse. It might be because that guy that was struggling a little bit has gotten really better. More reps Brad Stewart gets, the more reps Shawn Davis gets, the more reps Marco gets, the better off they’re going to be. Game action as well. I think that this freshman group has done pretty much Florida needed them to do, and that’s come in and compete and be close to ready to go.
Nick:There’s going to be a big impact from this recruiting class specifically, but even some redshirt guys, redshirt freshmen, some sophomores. Just a real big impact from this freshman class. We have a huge class. That strong finish, and I really think that you’ll see them early. By the time November rolls around, and you’re playing FSU and South Carolina, you might have some of these guys starting outright.
Who did we ask? I forget which player said it. Might have been Nick Washington or somebody. Lamical Perine said it. He was asked about two freshmen coming in, and he said, “Coach Shannon told us we’re recruiting for kids to come in and take your position. If they do, we’re good, because that means they’re better than you. If they don’t, we’re good, because we’re recruiting good kids. That means you’re better than them.” He said, “Either way, we’re good.” I think that’s the position Florida’s put themselves in with the last two recruiting class, and you’ll see a big emphasis on that 2017 class.
Andrew:Yeah. It’s a good problem to have. When you have competition, that makes you better. I think that was one of the things when Mac first got here that there wasn’t a lot of competition. Guys were playing. I’ll say it, and I don’t mind saying it now that he’s gone, but you had a depth issue last year at DB where guys like Chris Williamson, who had no business playing, were playing.
Now that you have competition, say Shawn Davis doesn’t start. If Nick Washington has his helmet knocked off, and he has to come out for a play, you’re not worried about who’s going to go in at safety and get picked on by Nick Saban in the SEC Championship game, because he knows the next player’s not very good. Competition’s good. Like you said, it’s a good problem to have.
Another guy we haven’t mentioned is Quincy Litton. He’s been out a little bit. You and I thought it was a foot injury for a while. We were told it was a hamstring injury and was asking a couple people about him. They’re like, when Quincy Litton’s on the field he’s such a good player. It’s just getting to the point where they can count on him, that he’s not going to get injured more.
I think the good news for everyone, and I know you and I have talked about it, is that it wasn’t the foot injury. Because that’s something that can be a reoccurring problem. To have the hamstring, it’s not a good thing, but it’s better than having the foot reoccur.
Nick:Yeah. You’d almost rather not. Brandon Powell will tell you, I wish. Brandon Powell would love for a hamstring injury rather than the foot that he had for three years. Hamstrings are no joke either. Those are things that can linger. You remember Keanu Neal. He was wound so tight he had hamstring injuries throughout his entire career. Tyrie Cleveland was really sidelined last year with a hamstring injury. Those are no joke either, but good to know that it’s not the foot that you’ve had surgery on that’s still acting up.
Andrew:That’s really about it from the scrimmage. There was a lot of good plays. Antonneous Clayton had a couple sacks as well. Vosean Joseph had a pick. Jeremiah Moon’s playing everywhere as well. To clarify things, he’s not playing nickel.
Nick:Please.
Andrew:Yeah. He’s not playing nickel. He’s playing the 4-3, base 4-3 defense. He’s the Will linebacker who is …
Nick:Will linebacker who has coverage responsibilities.
Andrew:Yeah. Has coverage responsibility. Kind of spread out a little bit. Especially against power teams like LSU, where he’s going to be a tight end. He’s going to be the guy, I know some people have said it’s a nickel. He’s not the nickel. He’s the Will linebacker playing in space. Wanted to clarify that as well.
Nick, Mac speaks on Monday. You guys are probably listening to this Monday morning. We’ll have updates on the situation with Callaway and the rest of the guys, more information on that Monday afternoon. What’s kind of the rest of the week? Tell them. Open practice. What do we got?
Nick:We’ve got practice on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. All those days we also have media, so Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday we have media. Tomorrow is Mac and practice. Tuesday I think is practice and players. We’ll have a ton of stuff coming up all week. I’m moving apartments on Friday, in between McElwain press conferences. Friday’s going to be an awesome day for me. Long day.
Andrew:How about nobody else get in trouble next weekend?
Nick:Please no Friday news dump. Give me a weekend to settle in.
Andrew:That’s that. Couple things recruiting wise. Working on a piece. Nick knows about it. I talked to him a little bit about last week. Probably Wednesday going to drop a piece just kind of recapping what all of the commits have done, whether they’ve been All-American, whether they’ve made All-Region team, what their stats were last year. Just kind of a recap of what these guys have done heading into their senior year.
Also going to have a really good story on Tuesday with Curtis Dunlap, the Florida commit, offensive line commit. Hadn’t got a lot of love, because he was kind of the guy that started that avalanche of recruiting. He committed on that Tuesday before Friday Night Lights, and he’s right now the only offensive line in the 2018 class. Kind of not shown a ton of love, but we’re going to have a really good story on him. Something that I know a lot of people are going to sit back and say, “Thank God.” Quite frankly, if Mike Summers was still at Florida, he wouldn’t have went to Florida.
Nick:Mike leaves a legacy.
Andrew:Louisville welcome. Good luck.
Nick:As always, you can find all your Gator Country news on the website, www.GatorCountry.com. All the podcasts. You’re working on getting it on Soundcloud, right?
Andrew:Yeah. Working on that. I think it’ll probably be this week sometime that it happens. Just a couple of things you have to do. You have to register this, register that, and it’s all about a process of people getting back. Soon as that happens, we’ll make sure to do that. I’ll say this. I’m 99% sure by season we’ll have it on Soundcloud.
Nick:There you go. That’s a couple weeks. You’ll be having it on Soundcloud for you non-iPhone users. You green text bubble people. We don’t like you. You will be able to listen to the podcast. You can find the podcast, if you don’t have an iPhone, or you can’t get onto the Apple store, you can go to www.GatorCountry.com. The story’s there in the link. Audio’s there, as well as the transcript. On social media, @GatorCountry on Facebook and Twitter. @TheGatorCountry on Instagram. You can follow both of us, @NickdelaTorreGC and @AndrewSpiveyGC.
Andrew:There was a couple people who hit Nick and I up on Twitter Saturday and Sunday asking about the discount code. Tweet back at one of us. Twitter and the phones were going nonstop over the weekend.
Nick:It was a crazy weekend.
Andrew:Quite frankly, I saw it, meant to respond. The phone rang, didn’t. Hit us back. We’ll give you that. If you haven’t joined yet, shoot us a message, email us, something like that. we’ll get you that discount code to come over. No better time to come over. The amount of insiders that are on our site are just crazy. Former players, stuff like that. Got a lot of good things planned. We’re always looking for ways to get better, so if you see something that you’ve liked elsewhere, and you think I’d like to see Andrew and Nick do it, shoot us a message. We’ll see about getting that done.
Guys, we appreciate it. Let us know if you want to join. We’ll get you that code. As always, guys, go Braves. Chomp, chomp.
Nick:You stay classy, Gator Country.
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