GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as the Florida Gators football team had its first spring scrimmage on Thursday and are now over half way done with spring football.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the play of the quarterbacks as we focus on Luke Del Rio and how he has taken charge of the position and the offense.

Andrew and Nick also preview the Florida Gators diamond sports for this week, plus talk a little recruiting as several prospects visited for spring football this week.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Once again, your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas. What’s up, Nicholas?

Nick:                         That’s right, another GC podcast. Spring football under way. First scrimmage going down Thursday. It was a star studded event on Wednesday at spring practice. Jack Del Rio, he is the father of Luke Del Rio, who will be the starting quarterback for Florida. He was down in Boca for the NFL owner meetings, coaches meetings, and just made a short trip up from Boca to Gainesville. Was there at practice with family friend, legendary Hoosiers coach, Gene Hackman.

Andrew:                 Yeah.

Nick:                         And the Old Ball Coach.

Andrew:                 And the Old Ball Coach.

Nick:                         It’s not often that Steve Spurrier can show up in Gainesville and not be the most famous person at practice, but when Gene Hackman shows up, that’s the case.

Andrew:                 Judd Davis, former Gator, also there, and the Old Ball Coach, that’s for sure. It’s very interesting. Jake Allen had a pretty good tweet, Gator commit, and he said, “Only at the Gators practice can you show up and have an NFL coach, a Hall of Fame, and Heisman Trophy winner, an actor, and just be a normal day in Gainesville.” That’s pretty cool, as Coach Mac would say. I think that’s pretty cool.

Nick:                         Mac is a basketball junkie. On Thursday when we spoke to him he ends the press conference, as he’s walking out, “Who do you guys got out tonight?” He’s been asking us about March Madness and our brackets all spring. He’s a little mad that he can’t have one. That would break NCAA rules for him to have a bracket. Basketball junkie, obviously Hoosiers one of his favorite movies, and to see Gene Hackman there, who’s done a ton of movies dating back to the 70s, not just Hoosiers. That was pretty cool to see him out there, but I think it’ll be even cooler for Mac to see how some of his team, some of his younger players, handle about 120, 125 scrimmage reps, live reps. Coaches not on the field behind them. Coaches on the sideline kind of trying to create as much of a game atmosphere, a true Saturday atmosphere as you can.

Andrew:                 This is the first legit true scrimmage of the spring. It’s good, because you get, in practice it’s different than a scrimmage. Practice you’ve got the coach standing over it, and a scrimmage is a game-like situation where the coaches are on the sidelines. Florida probably doesn’t send guys to the box like it does on normal game day for a scrimmage, but they are still signaling, calls, that kind of stuff, so you’re able to really see. How’s Feleipe Franks? How’s Kyle Trask? How are the freshmen receivers? How is Dre Massey? I know Massey didn’t participate on Thursday due to an injury, but you’re able to see that kind of stuff. How is Fred Johnson picking up on things? How is the defensive guys like Chauncey Gardner, that kind of stuff, picking up at it? Then it’s just how does Del Rio do in a game situation where I think we can both agree Jalen Tabor’s the best cornerback he’ll face all year, so how he’s doing against Jalen Tabor?

Nick: