GatorCountry brings you our latest podcast as we review the Florida Gators spring game from Friday night as the Gators hosted its first annual spring game at night time.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre discuss the atmosphere from the spring game, plus discuss how the quarterbacks performed and who stands out at the position after the spring.

Andrew and Nick also discuss the offense players in general, plus who stood out on defense and how the recruiting portion of the spring game went for the coaching staff.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? This is your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it was a good weekend in Gainesville if you’re one of the teams for the Gators. The other team, not so good, but the crowd enjoyed it, and I think Coach Mac got what he wanted out of the whole thing, and that was a good weekend.

Nick:                         Yeah. If you’re the Blue team, 44 points and a 38 point margin of victory. Those were both Orange and Blue game records. If you’re the Blue team, you’re feeling pretty good. If you’re Florida, you’re feeling pretty good. If you’re Florida fans, you’re feeling even better, because a kicker put that little oblong ball through those yellow things that stick up in the field, and that felt good.

Andrew:                 He cracked me up after the game when someone asked him, I believe the question was, “What do you think about the impact of the other guys?” or something along those lines. He said, “I don’t know very much football, but I know that I’m supposed to kick it between those two yellow things.”

Nick:                         Yeah. “I don’t know too much about football. I just kick the ball, and it goes in,” was his quote. That’s all you got to do, buddy.

Andrew:                 I thought McElwain might have given him that, because Mac’s thing is, “You see those two yellow things? Kick it between them.” That was funny. Nick, we talked about this a lot, and I’ve done a couple radio stations today, and they keep asking me, “What is the thing that fans should be looking forward to?” I struggle, because there’s so much. A new kicker Eddy Pineiro is going to create excitement. Florida’s kicking game has been, well, let’s just say it, shitty lately. You look at the quarterback position. Quarterback play was something we all focused on, and then everyone seems to always focus on the defense, because that’s, the defense is what’s good. I struggle with what exactly is probably the thing that I’m most looking forward to, because there’s so much.

We can talk more about that in just a second, but let’s talk real quick about that Friday atmosphere. You were on campus a lot earlier than I was. I got on campus later, and campus was buzzing. There was tailgating going on, stuff like that. I’ve had several people tell me they’ve been to several games as of late, the last few years, and this was by far the most excitement going around. I would say Year One McElwain Friday night, success.

Nick:                         Yeah. The past couple years you get on campus, and you could tell that something was going on, but it certainly you wouldn’t have guessed that there was a football game going on. To me, it felt kind of a Saturday night in the fall. It felt like there was football going on here. People are grilling. People are drinking. People are having a good time. I really think that doing it on Friday is good. We’ll get to recruiting reasons, but I think even more so than just Friday is having it at night. It was 77 degrees at kickoff. It was nice. It was almost a little chilly after the game. In the past, those games, it might only say 80, 85 degrees, but the humidity. It’s kind of that heat that just bears down on you. The humidity makes your cl