This GatorCountry podcast previews the Florida Gators spring game on Friday night when the teams are split into an Orange team and a Blue team as the Gators finish off spring practice.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the players they're looking forward to seeing on Friday night, plus they look at the quarterback position heading into the game.

Andrew and Nick also preview the prospects that are scheduled to visit Florida on Friday night, plus they look at the diamond sports this weekend.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man here, Andrew Spivey, with my man, Nicholas de la Torre. What’s up, Nicholas?

Nick:                         We are one day away from the spring football game, which Jim McElwain has personally promised will actually be football, which is a nice change in Gainesville.

Andrew:                 That’s pretty cool.

Nick:                         Everyone remembers the Muschamp debacle, I think it was three years ago now, where it was a glorified practice, not even a glorified, just a practice, and the TV situation was a mess. Really the entire event kind of just blew up.

Andrew:                 The TV’s trying to show one on one drills, and it was just a cluster. That’s all it was. It was a debacle, like you say. It was a laughing matter, and just was kind of a glorified picture of the Will Muschamp era, I guess is the best way to say it.

Nick:                         Microcosm of the Muschamp error. I said that wrong, but maybe I said it right. I said the Muschamp error instead of the Muschamp era, but I might have been right.

Andrew:                 Might have been right. Yeah. It’s not there. What about him telling Kirby Smart he was going to whip his ass on the football field?

Nick:                         That’s good, because he didn’t have much success against his friends when he was at Florida. Maybe he’ll have more success against his friends in South Carolina. I know Jimbo enjoyed playing Will Muschamp.

Andrew:                 Is that game going to set football back 40 years on offense?

Nick:                         Most games Will Muschamp’s involved in sets football back a couple decades.

Andrew:                 But Kirby Smart being another Nick Saban defensive guy, we might see, no, there is no chance of seeing a one to one game, maybe a two-two game.

Nick:                         I don’t know. He’s still tricking quarterbacks into going to his school.

Andrew:                 It’s always good when you hire the daddy of a big name quarterback. That’s there. No quarterback problem in Gainesville. There’s a good competition going on. As you said, Gators kick off at 7:00 in the Swamp on Friday night.

Nick:                         SEC Network on the broadcast.

Andrew:                 SEC Network. I believe Greg McElroy is one of the guys calling the game, if I remember correctly. I have to go back and look, but I’m pretty sure they had announced Greg McElroy was going to be one of the guys on the call.

Nick:                         That’s good. I think when you do something like that, and you’ve got a former player doing it, I love Chris Doering, and he is linked in with what’s going on at Florida, but Mac’s only been at Florida for a year. So when you can get somebody who has personal experience with a coach I think there is a balance for them to try to remain professional, but you also have an opportunity where Greg McElroy, I know when you and I spoke with him he really shared things about McElwain that we didn’t know, and probably stuff that we would have had, it would have taken u