This GatorCountry podcast focuses on previewing the Florida Gators baseball and softball teams’ games this coming weekend.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre also look at prospects visiting the Florida Gators this weekend for the class of 2017 as there are scheduled to be several players on campus.
Andrew and Nick also break down the Florida Gators basketball teams big game this coming Saturday against South Carolina on the road in Columbia, South Carolina.
TRANSCRIPT:
Nick: Welcome back, Gator Country podcast listeners. Nick de la Torre, as always joined by Andrew Spivey. Andrew, pretty strong start for you on the softball diamond, and what’s going on other than that?
Andrew: Yeah. You can’t ask for nothing better than a no-no in baseball or softball, and that’s exactly what Aleshia Ocasio did on Wednesday night in the double header shellacking of Jacksonville, 16-0 out of the two games. Just a little Rick Flair style hit up the middle was the only hit of the double header, and that was against Kelly Barnhill in Game 2. Pretty good start. No hitter and 16-0 overall. Not too bad overall. In the total six games Florida’s only given up one run. Not too bad.
Nick: Softball is well underway. Baseball begins tonight, and there’s still recruiting going on. So before we get into those two full seasons Florida will host some visitors this week. Who is going to be getting a chance to maybe meet with Mac and maybe meet with the new coach, Coach Torrian Gray? Who’s coming in?
Andrew: Does recruiting season ever stop? It might be the longest season of them all. Usually baseball is 162, but recruiting’s 365.
Nick: Recruiting may be like 364 ½.
Andrew: What’s the off day? Christmas?
Nick:Maybe.
Andrew: Yeah. Four visitors so far this weekend. You got Eric Douglas from Mallard Creek.
Nick, that’s DJ Humphries old high school up in North Carolina. Then you got another Carolina, South Carolina this time, defensive end in Logan Rudolph coming in. Then two local guys, Zach Carter, defensive end from Tampa, and Latavious Brini, I guess is how you pronounce his last name, Brini. Maybe not. All four of those are coming in this weekend. I expect many more guys to come in either this weekend or next weekend as Junior Days kind of wind down. Then spring practice was announced on Wednesday, March 9. You know how that is, Nick. It’ll be plenty of visitors coming in during that, but those four big ones coming in.
Florida’s kind of went a good while without a commit. So maybe they can at least get some things rolling to get a commit. I don’t think they get one this weekend, but Zach Carter is a big one in the defense end out of Tampa.
Nick: Let me ask you a question here. Maybe you can help some people. When you talk about someone like Zach Carter, defensive end from Tampa, now let’s say that Torrian Gray, being from the Lakeland area, will handle Tampa for recruiting, but he’s the defensive backs coach. What’s the dynamic in recruiting a player who is in your area, but not your position? How much of the recruitment goes onto Chris Rumph? How much of it is Gray, because that’s his area? What’s that dynamic like?
Andrew: I think Chris Rumph will say recruiting that Tampa area, and then Torrian Gray will kind of take over where Kirk Callahan was recruiting, and that’s the Pasco, outskirts of Tampa, kind of area where Jayvaughn Myers was last year. I think it’s Pinellas County is how they describe that area. I think that’s kind of where Gray will do, as well as the Lakeland area. It’s Chris Rumph. Chris Rumph’s the one that’s going to have to sell Zach Carter on that.
If I was saying early on who was leading for Carter I would say it’s Florida. He’s a big guy that Florida really needs to lock down in this class, because they need to get some bigger defensive ends definitely out of this class. I think that’s a guy like Zach Carter, and great to get a guy out Tampa to start rolling in. I think he may wait for summer or fall to commit, but it’s definitely good to get him to go ahead and name Florida the leader. He hasn’t done that publically, so maybe that’s something they can get after Junior Day. I know Clemson. Yes, I said Clemson, is also in the mix.
Nick: Let me rephrase my question, maybe using Carter is a bad example. Let’s say…
Andrew: James Robinson, the receiver from Lakeland.
Nick: Yeah. James Robinson, receiver from Lakeland. How does that recruitment then shake out? You’ve got Kerry Dixon who’s going to be the position coach. That’s not his area. How does that play out when it’s somebody’s area? Who takes lead there? Is it the area guy that takes lead? How does that play out?
Andrew: I think it’s a little bit of both actually. I think you have to. Florida does a good job of not having one coach really recruit that person. That was one of the biggest things when Kirk Callahan did leave. It wasn’t like CJ McWilliams, the corner, or Jawaan Taylor, the safety out of Alabama, hadn’t just talked to Callahan. They had talked to multiple people. So I think it’s a balance. If Torrian Gray’s recruiting James Robinson in the Lakeland area, the receiver, he’s going to be the guy that maybe talks to him more, but Dixon’s also going to be very involved. It’d probably be more up to Gray to organize getting him on campus, and then Dixon kind of doing the things once he gets on campus. So it’s a kind of a 50/50 split there, but Gray’s probably more involved with the arrangements to get up there.
Nick: Okay. So sort of different in the past where it’s more of an all hands on deck. Maybe in the past there would have been like that’s not my area, so that’s on you.
Andrew: Will Muschamp’s.
Nick: Kind of like passing the buck.
Andrew: Yeah. Will Muschamp had recruiting guys recruiting certain areas, and it was kind of that. It wasn’t kind of a teamwork kind of deal. We’ve seen that probably the most when it was time to do recruiting in home visits this January. You got a guy like Chris Rumph. You got Randy Shannon. You had Geoff Collins, and you had Kerry Dixon. All going in home with Jachai Polite, defensive out of Daytona, because that was Dixon area. Rumph is his position coach, and then they just added in Shannon and Collins to go in as well as reinforcements there. I think it’s good to have multiple guys recruiting that person, in case there is some changeover in the staff. That way you’re not exactly relying on one person to kind of handle the load. I think it’s better to split it up a little bit.
Nick: Especially with how much it can change. We’ve already seen a couple quality control assistants leave in Nudleberg and Marquel Blackwell, guys who probably deserved to get an opportunity, whether it was going to be at Florida or if it was going to be somewhere else. Deserve the opportunities that they got. Even at the quality control level it’s so easy to have turnover. So I think I like that kind of take on it where let’s get them as comfortable with as many coaches, even if it’s an offensive coach.
Andrew: Yeah. I mean, the biggest thing is, and we didn’t even mention it, but guys like Drew Hughes and his recruiting staff, they’re probably talking to these kids even more than anybody, because those are the guys that the prospects are DM and on those guys more often than not, and those are the guys that’s really trying to get each prospect up. So when you think about it you start to break it down. There’s more than one person talking to them at really all times. You’re looking at the position coach, the recruiting coordinator for that area. Then you’re looking at a guy that’s like a Hughes that’s the main recruiting guy, and his guys and his staff, plus you have McElwain talking to a lot of these kids as well. So sometimes you’ve got three, four, or five coaches talking to each prospect, and I think that’s what’s different with this staff than really any of the other staffs that I’ve had the pleasure of covering.
Nick: Yeah. This staff may be getting off, I say that, but then when we got to Signing Day, I was about to say they’re getting off a little slower maybe than people like, but Florida got off to a fast start last summer, and then the class is full, and everyone is saying, “Why aren’t we getting involved with these kids now?” It’s like you got to pick your poison. You can’t start fast and then have a gigantic Signing Day. Each class is different though. I’m sure once you get kids coming on and seeing spring practice things start to heat up a little bit.
We’ll talk more about recruiting as that heats up, but what is heating up are the girls. You’ve got, I think Florida’s given up in the first six games given up 10 hits.
Andrew: Yeah.
Nick: There’s a no hitter, and you run ruled the #2 team in the country. So kind of what you expect from the softball girls to start?
Andrew: Yeah. For sure. I think it’s been a good start for Florida overall. I think that they’ve done a good job of getting out the gate fast, and the biggest thing that’s probably been the most beneficial of the start is Florida’s able to play more people. The second game against Jacksonville on Wednesday night Florida was able to play five freshmen of their seven. They were able to basically hit the entire team that wanted to hit.
You’re able to mix up the lineup a little bit, able to mix up the defense a little bit. You had Alex Voss, the freshman, playing a little shortstop. You’re able to have DeWitt move over to third a little bit. Then you look ahead for next year as well. You were able to have Kayli Kvistad go out to right. You were able to kind of see some young faces in spots that seniors are going to be at. I think that was probably the biggest thing, and maybe the most surprising thing was both Aleshia Ocasio and then Delanie Gourley both got at bat some against Jacksonville. Gourley did her first ever at bat, and almost hits a grand slam out of center field. Hits the warning track, but it showed a little bit of power. Maybe pinch hitting in the near future for the Gators.
Nick: Then, to me, when you talk about this softball team, obviously the first thing you think of is Stewart and Munro, the girls that have been there, but then you kind of get introduced to Barnhill early on against Michigan. This moment’s not too big for her. Struggled a little bit with USF, still gets the win. Comes back in then again, almost gives you back to back no hitters, which would have been pretty ridiculous. You mentioned that one little flair. What do you see from her just as far as pitching, as far as how the girls are responding to her, and kind of what do you think you’ll see from her the rest of the year? It seems like not much change for her since high school.
Andrew: Yeah. I think you and I are both very familiar with the game of softball and baseball, and there’s certain pitchers that just have that it factor, that doesn’t really bother them no matter the count, anything else, and that’s kind of what Barnhill is. It doesn’t seem like the moment’s too big for her. Twelve innings pitched this year, 2-0 record, and struck out 14 already. Struck out 9 yesterday, on Wednesday. That was a career high. I think the biggest thing for her is her rise ball right now is doing really well. When you talk about softball being 73 miles an hour, her pitch, that’s kind of unheard of.
The biggest thing with her rise ball and her speed is that she’s able to control it. She got into a little bit of trouble in the USF game, but bounced back nicely on Wednesday for that. I think that her ability to change speeds with pitches and not let the moment get too big for her has probably been the biggest thing. I mean, when you think about a girl like Barnhill dominating Michigan, that’s a team that’s going to be one of the best, and she’s just a freshman. She’ll get better throughout the year, and that’s scary how good she could be once she learns the college game.
Nick: Can we just go back to that high school game we talked about last podcast where she struck out all 21 in the perfect game? What’s going on there? A rise ball is very hard to hit, very hard to bunt. If I’m the coach, and she strikes out the first 9, the first 10, everyone is bunting. I don’t care if you pop it right back up to her. We’re not going to strike out 21 times in a row. That’s just not happening.
Andrew: Especially the 20th.
Nick: We’re not even letting it get that far. If she makes it through the first, she makes it through 9 with strikeouts, everybody’s going up to bunt, and we’re going to pop it up.
Andrew:Yeah.
Nick: Pop up that rise ball, and we’ll take that out, because it’s better than a strikeout.
Andrew: You would think that something like that would have happened. I hate the team bunting with no hitters. I know people don’t like that. It is what it is in my opinion. I don’t want to be no hits, so if it means me having to bunt, okay.
Nick: 21 in a row is absolutely ridiculous, but it does seem that the moment is not too big for her. That’s something we get into at all levels, across all sports, football, softball, baseball, and it’s kind of like part of you signs up to play at Florida for moments like that, for those games, for that competition.
Andrew: The biggest thing maybe for this team is that you’re able to sign the #1 player and the #2 player in the country, and the other freshman that’s kind of getting lost right now, who is the #1 player in the country out of high school, was Amanda Lorenz, and she’s a left handed hitter who’s just hit a cool .533 on the year with 9 RBIs and 10 runs scored this year, or 12 runs scored this year through six games. She’s not doing very bad, but getting over shadowed by Barnhill’s brilliance in the circle.
Nick: I think everyone will have a chance to overshadow and to be overshadowed. That’s just how much talent there is on this team. What does this weekend look like for the Lady Gators of the diamond?
Andrew: Baseball and softball, you never take an opponent too lightly, because it is a bat and ball, and anything can be done, but it’s a less than competitive weekend it should be in Orlando. They’re going down to Orlando to play in the Diamond Nine Tournament at Disney. Friday they’ve got UAB and Stephen F. Austin. Those should be run rule games in my opinion. Saturday, Omaha and Elon, again, those should probably be run rule games. Then Sunday they got Jacksonville State. So five games over the weekend. Should get to see a lot of different lineups, a lot of different girls playing in the field. All seven freshmen, unless Walton wants to redshirt one or two of those, should play this weekend. Florida should come out still with that undefeated record before they head out to California next week for a very competitive weekend. This weekend should be okay. They should get to maybe iron out some kinks, and see a lot of people play. That’s kind of the benefit of playing teams like they did last weekend is that they can have a weekend like this and nobody gets really angry about it.
Nick: So you’re not going out on a limb and predicting an upset, the first loss.
Andrew: No. I mean, who is Elon? Where is Elon?
Nick: Elon is in North Carolina.
Andrew: Elon, North Carolina. Stephen F. Austin, that sounds like a guy’s name. I mean, come on. I don’t think so. UAB, UAB will probably be, should be the biggest test. I don’t know too much about UAB yet. You guys listening to this on Thursday, I hadn’t wrote my preview yet for the weekend. So I haven’t done too much research on those teams, but I’m going go out on a limb and say that UAB is the best of that five.
Nick: They’ll be listening to this on Friday.
Andrew: That’s what I’m saying.
Nick: You said Thursday.
Andrew: You guys are listening to this on Friday. We’re taping it on Thursday, my fault.
Nick: There you go. That will bring us to the diamond. Kevin O’Sullivan and those guys who will be heading back to Omaha, or I predict they will be heading back to Omaha. The SEC Coach’s Poll came out. Florida got 13 first place votes in the SEC East, and that is because you cannot vote for yourself or for your players. So Vanderbilt’s one vote, we know where that came from. Kevin O’Sullivan had to pick someone that wasn’t Florida. Every other coach in the SEC picked Florida to win the East.
Andrew: Not too bad.
Nick: It’s a very competitive East. Vanderbilt, obviously, was a College World Series team. South Carolina is very good. Kentucky’s going to be a good team with a very good pitching staff, so it’s not an easy East, but the SEC coaches, maybe they all got together, and they were like, “Let’s just all throw all of our votes over to Florida. Let’s see if we can add more pressure to them before this season starts.
Andrew: At least it wasn’t a conspiracy theory when it was Tebow not being unanimous first team. At least they know what’s up. Vandy’s going to be good, but, news flash, Dansby Swanson is in Hotlanta playing for the Braves. I’m kind of upset about that a little bit. I’m upset about it, but not upset. I’m upset because I don’t get to see him play on TV this year, because, man, his glove is awesome, but I am very happy that he’s in the ATL. It’s going to be interesting to see who picks up for those guys, because there’s a lot of holes, at Florida with Richie Martin at shortstop, at LSU with Bregman, and at Vanderbilt with Dansby gone. Who kind of steps up to be that next great shortstop in the SEC?
Nick: That’s true. Dalton Guthrie will be moving over for Florida, but you had Bregman last year at LSU and Swanson, both Top 5 picks, with Swanson being the first overall pick. So it was definitely the year of the shortstop, especially when you throw Richie Martin into that mix. It’s going to be a little bit different. I think what really helps, what really is the strength of the SEC this year, is the pitching staff, and the pitching staff in the SEC is kind of ridiculous, starting with Florida really.
You talk about having a potential #1 overall pick in A.J. Puk, not even a Friday starter, and Kevin O’Sullivan said it today. He said it before. You don’t get pitchers like Puk. He was asked point blank is this the most talented, physically gifted player you’ve ever had? He said, “Yeah, because 6’7”, 6’8” lefties that throw 94-97 don’t make it to college.” They just get drafted high, and they never even make it to college. So for Puk there was he wanted to hit when he got to Florida. He did a little bit of that his freshman year. Sully was joking with him that he’s going to end his Florida career without a home run in a game, but to me Florida’s pitching staff will be good. You’ve got guys like Brady Singer, Hunter Bowling, that are high first round, or high picks in the next three, four years, and these guys are going to be splitting time on weekdays with Dane Dunning.
The staff is really loaded, and then when you look at top to bottom in the lineup, Guthrie, who led off every game that he played last year until he got hurt in the SEC tournament semi-final. Pete Alonso, who is finally healthy. I think Florida kept him in a padded room all off season so he wouldn’t get hurt. He’s a guy that has the type of power we saw from JJ Schwarz last year, and you’ve got him and Schwarz backing each other up in the lineup. Yeah, you’re going to miss the bats of Bader and Martin, but you’ve got some power, and this lineup from top to bottom is really going to be a tough out 1-9.
Andrew: That’s the thing I think is probably the biggest thing for me is maybe not last year, last year was a little better, but in years past it was like of like a big drop off after maybe the top six guys in the order. It seemed like there was a little bit of a drop off. Larson in my opinion is a really good hitter, kind of struggled at the end of the year, but I think 1-9, like you said, is going to be pretty good. Then when you think about all the arms that aren’t starting, those guys get to go to the bullpen. If you do need a long reliever in a case you’ve got some pretty good arms that can come in and pitch. I think another thing that probably is overlooked is how good the depth is around the SEC pitching wise, and you look at Kentucky. You look at LSU and Vanderbilt. They’ve all got multiple arms that are going to be high draft picks in the coming years as well.
Nick: Yeah. The SEC as a whole always is good at baseball. They will be again this year. The SEC East is very good, and it all begins this week. 56 games. Starts off with three against Florida Gulf Coast. Logan Shore will get the ball tomorrow. This is a Gulf Coast team that Florida didn’t play last year. I think it’s been a couple years since they’ve played FGCU, and it’s an older kind of more experienced team. So when you look at a school like LSU, or Florida, or Vanderbilt, traditional powerhouses, the teams aren’t normally very old, because guys kind of either see the writing on the wall after their freshman year and leave, or are good enough that they’re getting drafted and leaving after their junior seasons.
When you get down to some of these teams like FGCU and UNF, other teams that Florida will play, you start to see some more veterans, and that can help a team, especially first weekend. You’re dealing with nerves, and it’s been so long since the last time you played baseball. There’s some nerves for opening day that you just have to experience and get over with. These older players have some experience with that, and FGCU also has some talent. They have an All-American. He’s an outfielder, DH, Nick Rivera. He was a 2015 Louisville Slugger All-American. He was Atlantic Sun All-Conference First Team, Player of the Week twice. He was a 38th round pick by the Astros last year, chose to come back to school. A guy with a ton of power. Someone that Florida will have to look at, and it’s a veteran pitching staff.
So it’ll be interesting to see how that veteran staff with Florida Gulf Coast, how they can handle some of the newer guys with Florida, and then there’s also a question of a sophomore slump. I fully expect Florida to sweep this series, but there still are questions. When you have a team that maybe is as good as Florida is you have to reach to find some questions, but these are questions that the coaching staff has to ask of themselves, and they have to ask of the players as well.
Andrew: Two questions. Basketball for Florida Gulf Coast is dunk city. Is this home run city?
Nick: It might be, but it won’t be this weekend. Not against Shore, Puk, and Faedo.
Andrew: Probably not. The second thing is how much pressure is it on you? You’ve got to start out 57-1. Over these first six games you’ve got to score 57 runs to keep up with softball. Can they do it?
Nick: No.
Andrew:No. It’s pretty out there.
Nick: I don’t think so. Very different sports.
Andrew: No. They’re both hardball and that. Maybe the biggest question is does JJ tie his sister this weekend, or does it take another series to tie it?
Nick: One home run?
Andrew: No. It’s four, right?
Nick: Taylor has four home runs already?
Andrew: No. I believe he needs to four to tie her.
Nick: Oh. I thought you were talking about on the season. He was three behind her. It will take more. He will not hit four this series. I can give you that.
Andrew: You can give me that. I hope he does hit four this series. Overall I think it’s going to be fun to see just how many different freshmen are able to play, because it’s going to be tough to get some of those freshman in, but I think this is a good series this weekend to kind of rotate those guys in. At the same time, it’s also about getting a team chemistry down. So how much of that do you think will be rotated in, and how much of it do you think will be pretty much sticking to form and sticking with your regular lineup? Do you think that they may change some stuff up on Saturday or Sunday if they have a good opening night on Friday?
Nick: I think kind of like we talked about with softball. This first month is really kind of figuring things out.
Andrew: Trial and error.
Nick: Trial and error. The coaching staff has a plan, and that’s what they go into the year with. This is our plan. We’re going into the year with it. Then things change. Stuff happens, kids react differently. Guys go into slumps. You need to move some things around. I like this lineup, especially up top. Really like the lineup. I love the pitching rotation. To me, it’s just you’ve got a lot of guys that you need to kind of keep happy. So there’s a lot of freshmen in this class that you don’t want to leave.
You’re leaning heavily on a junior class, but there’s a lot of freshmen, Nelson Maldonado, the pitchers Brady Singer, Hunter Bowling, there’s a lot of guys that you need to kind of get time. Scott Moss is a lefty that we haven’t talked about a lot, very highly regarded when he came out of school, and then hurt his elbow. Thought we were going to see him last year, started to get some tenderness again. So he’s really been at Florida for two years and hasn’t thrown yet.
I think the biggest challenge for Sully is going to be rotating things enough to keep guys engaged, and obviously when you start get a series like FGCU, when you get a series like Harvard coming in and Dartmouth, and some of these lesser teams, you can get guys more looks, and then once it comes down to SEC play that’s really the season within the season is your conference schedule, and that’s kind of when things have to tighten up.
Also, when you get into SEC play there’s roster limitations. Travel roster is limited. Guys that can dress, even for home games, and be available for home games is limited. So you try to do the best you can to keep everybody engaged. You’ve got to remember, all these guys that are at Florida were the big dog on campus last year, and now they’re coming into a situation where my old coach would hit me second, so that I would get more at bats, and now I might get two at bats a week.
Andrew: That’s the biggest thing of a freshman is when they do get their at bats you can’t judge it too much, because it is a freshman may get a pinch hitting opportunity and never pinch hit a day in his life, or they may hit on Tuesday, not play again until the following midweek game, and that’s tough for anybody to go week, sometimes a couple games, without getting those swings in. Be interesting to see just how they adjust for that. I think the biggest thing for me is to see where Puk goes, and just how dominant this starting staff is for the opening weekend. But the big thing this weekend may not even be baseball or softball. It may be basketball, Nicholas.
Nick: Will it be?
Andrew: It may be. You never know. Basketball team beating Georgia over the weekend, and got an away game against South Carolina. I don’t want to say it’s a must win, but it’s a big road game and a big statement game for Florida in that march to the NCAA Tournament, and in the march to the SEC Tournament of trying to keep that top four seeds to get that bye game.
Nick: This team to me is just, I don’t know. I don’t know about this team. I was shocked, especially after throwing 19 points, that they were able to come back and get a win. Do I think they go 2 for 2 on the road this week? No. It’s just offensively it’s such a struggle, and it doesn’t seem to me like there’s a clear answer. So you want to get a better offensive lineup, and Mike White values guards and values ball handling. So you play a smaller lineup with three guards, and now you’re getting out rebounded. So you try to change that up, and then you talk about free throw shooting, and that’s abysmal. That’s terrible. You and I might be able to go out and shoot a very similar free throw percentage.
Andrew: If you’re Kasey Hill, how do you go through your high school and three years of college basketball without having a better free throw? Jump shooting is different than free throws. Free throw is the same shot every time. I just don’t understand it. His free throws don’t even look good. They’re clunks off the back of the rim. They’re ugly shots. It’s not even Egbunu, he has a reason. He’s a big guy. He doesn’t shoot. Kasey Hill’s a point guard. I just don’t understand that.
Nick: He is not a big man. We’re not talking about Shaq at the line. So, to me, you’re a guard. Why can’t you shoot free throws?
Andrew: I think he’s worse than 50% on the year. It’s not good. He’s 22% from the three point line, that’s okay, but I don’t know. I don’t know where this team finds offense. When Egbunu is not in the game and not slamming it home, or Dorian Finney-Smith’s not getting easy layups, it just seems like it’s bounce the ball until it goes flat, and throw up a three, or throw up a wild layup as the time expires on the shot clock. I don’t know. Then when the offense is bad, the defense turns into really bad as well. It’s just a team that when they’re shooting good they’re really good. When they’re shooting bad they’re really bad.
Nick: Kasey Hill is shooting 54% at the free throw line this season. That’s not good. There’s only a couple guys worse, and really only two that play significant minutes.
Andrew: Who is that?
Nick: Two or three, Brandon Francis-Ramirez is shooting 45%. Kevarrius Hayes is shooting 41. Justin Leon is shooting 38%.
Andrew: Oh my. Francis-Ramirez is actually a pretty good shooter, but I don’t know.
Nick: Francis-Ramirez has been struggling mightily shooting this entire season, and you thought that he would break out of it at some point, but is really struggling. He’s 18 of 88 from the field this year.
Andrew:Oh my word.
Nick: And 9 of 50 from behind the arc.
Andrew:Ugh. That’s nasty. I don’t know. I think you got to go back to KeVaughn Allen. KeVaughn Allen’s got to shoot the ball. The first 10 minutes of the game on Tuesday he has zero shots. KeVaughn Allen is a guy you want to shoot, shoot, shoot, and shoot some more. This team’s a bad offensive team. You don’t need your best shooter in KeVaughn Allen to go 10 minutes without shooting a shot. You’ve got to have him shooting the ball, and maybe just tell him it’s the last minute of the game for 40 minutes.
Nick: I don’t know. I really don’t know what this team can do. Obviously, just keep winning. They won ugly, so whatever.
Andrew:It’s Will Muschamp football.
Nick: It’s not fun.
Andrew:It’s not fun. Well, they’re going to Will Muschamp territory. Maybe they can do that. Nick, people are getting tired of us, I am sure. We’ll have our usual podcast up first of the week on Tuesday next week. Have plenty of coverage of recruiting, softball, baseball, basketball, and also gymnastics and lacrosse are this weekend as well. We’ll have all that on Gator Country this weekend. So tell everybody where they can find us, and we’ll get out of here.
Nick:As always, it is www.GatorCountry.com on the world wide interwebs. You can follow Andrew and I, NickdelaTorreGC, AndrewSpiveyGC, on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook, Gator Country, and on Instagram, TheGatorCountry. I just posted a picture up for Throwback Thursday on my own personal Instagram account, so check me out there.
Andrew: Yeah. That was a cool little throwback. I think the gift game is there. Nick, it’s your turn to throw the gifts on the board for this weekend. I like my W for wins.
Nick:It’s a Cubs thing.
Andrew:It is a Cub thing, and I really like the Cub thing, so I adapted. I’m using it. I’m using it a lot. I probably use it more, no, the Cubs are good now, so can’t use that, but the Cubs for a while didn’t get to use that W flag very often. Spring training is here. Happiest time of the year for myself. It’s going to be fun for that, and we should have a good weekend recruiting wise, and everything else. Butch and Mark, you know the drill. Go Braves. Chomp, chomp.
Nick:You stay classy, Gator Country.