This GatorCountry podcast talks Florida Gators spring football as the guys break down each position and give updates on how the players are doing this spring during practice.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre give you insight on which players are performing well during practice, plus discuss how the offensive line is shaking out.

Andrew and Nick end the podcast by breaking down the Florida Gators softball and baseball teams for this weekend, plus talk lacrosse and all else Gators sports.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew: ​Hello, my friends. What’s up, Gator Country? This is the man, Andrew Spivey, here. What’s up, Nicholas de la Torre?

Nick:​ What is going on? Another great day here in Gainesville. Lot of stuff going on, and we’re taping this on Thursday. It’ll be up on Friday, but this is Thursday, Friday is one of these next two days are one of the best sporting event days of the year where you’ve got basketball games around the clock. March Madness. I think a lot of people call in sick from work.

Andrew:​ Either sick, or have their little things on CBS.

Nick: Or sitting in the office with an iPad or computer and the game streaming.

Andrew: ​Yeah. Remember a couple years ago when they brought out the whole deal where you could switch it to a spreadsheet real quick when the boss came it. You and I, we’re lucky. We don’t got to do that. I agree. Outside of really the Masters, that’s probably the greatest two days of sports there is. Of course, every day in college football, but outside of Saturday, Sunday for the Masters I would say it was the best. Masters Saturday, Sunday, nothing compares to that.

Nick: ​Masters Wednesday with the Par 3 is awesome. Thursday is awesome. I love the Masters. That’s my favorite. The Masters and the US Open. I think because the US Open always falls on Father’s Day, so I have the tradition of golfing with my dad on Father’s Day. Those two are probably my favorite golf events. As far as how much is going on, you’ve got I think 16 games today, 16 tomorrow. It’s a lot of basketball, and it’s all, I’m not a big college basketball fan or a basketball fan, because I think there’s too many games. If 62 teams, or 64 teams now, are making the tournament, what does a game in January mean? Not much. If we’re playing 82 games in the NBA season, what does a game in November mean? Nothing. When it comes down to the tournament, I’m all in for it. It’s win or go home, and I love the high stakes that you’re kind of playing with once the tournament starts.

Andrew: ​I think this year’s tournament may end up being one of the craziest ones, because there really is no dominant team, and so it’s kind of one of those deals where it might not be as many upsets as we think, but who knows what seed your championship team is going to be, because what? Seven #1 teams this year in the country. I mean, a team like Kentucky that’s a four seed was #3 at one time in the country. Could be crazy, but it’s always awesome to see March Madness.

Nick: ​We’ve got a little March Madness of our own going on on the football field. Florida still doing spring practice. Monday we got shells. Tuesday we got full pads, full hitting.

Andrew: ​Wednesday.

Nick: ​Wednesday. Tuesday, Wednesday, same thing. Wednesday was full pads, and they’ll be back in shells here on Friday, as you’re listening to this. In the media we get to see a very small portion of practice. I was actually talking to Jake McGee about it. He was kind of making fun of me, because he, as a former player, was just going to stay there the entire practice, and I had to leave. So I said I was going to hide behind him. It’s a very small portion, so you and I try to kind of keep that in perspective. We know what we’re seeing, and it’s basically we’re making calls off of what families are telling us, player’s parents, what someone around the staff, people that are at practice