GatorCountry brings you a special Florida Gators mailbag edition of the podcast as we answer your questions on the football team and on recruiting.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the most important questions on the offense at Florida, plus some facility questions from our members.

Andrew and Nick also break down how the diamond teams did this past weekend, plus Andrew talks Tennessee spring game and the rivalry talk that has been going on.

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Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with my man, Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, good weekend on the diamonds. Not so good on the gym floor. Tennis does well. I would say for the most part a good weekend in Gainesville.

Nick:                         Yeah. Good weekend in Gainesville. Shout out to the gymnasts, specifically Bridget Sloan. Maybe you didn’t win a championship, but winning three out of four for a senior class, three national championships in a four year career is pretty impressive.

Andrew:                 I saw a stat. She had won 9 championship rings while at Florida, because she won the all-around this weekend as well. Nine championship rings, one more and she’d have had a handful. Maybe she’s saving that last one for like a wedding ring. We’ll play it off. That’s what Bridget wants to do. Bridget, we got you. We’ll take care of you. Nick, I don’t want to go into this too, too much, but there’s something, someone hit on the message board, and someone hit it to me on Twitter. They said, “Where would you rank Bridget as far as Gator athletes go?” Of course, I don’t want to debate this much, because we’ve got a lot of things to talk about, but I somewhat think we overlook a career like Bridget Sloan, or some of these softball girls, or the tennis girls when they were doing really well. I think maybe we overlook some of these ladies that are doing really well. Bridget Sloan, I mean, like I just said, nine national championship rings. You’d be hard fought to find too many better winning athletes at Florida.

Nick:                         Yeah. It’s always tough, I think, when you start comparing athletes in different sports. To way, where do they fit in all time, all programs? It’s so hard to compare a football player to a softball player to someone who’s running track or swimming, but as far as gymnasts, if not the top overall maybe, then on a very short list up top would be Bridget Sloan.

Andrew:                 I agree. It’s tough. Tim Tebow, how do you compare Tebow’s career to Bridget Sloan’s? Tebow only had a chance for four national championships. You can’t really compare that. It is interesting. Nine championship rings. That’s awesome. That’s a great career. Congrats to her, and you and I both, we follow them on social media, that kind of stuff, and she was the life of the program. It’ll be big shoes to fill, but three out of four, and finishing fourth in the national championship, not too, too bad.

Nick:                         No. Not at all. She finished her career off, I think it was with a 10 on the bars?

Andrew:                 Something like that. I really don’t know. When it got ugly I kind of turned it off. Not to go into too much of a rant, because Florida was bad on Saturday night, but I hate sports that are judged by judges. It is awful. You can’t tell me that there’s not some gimmicks in there, some crookedness going into that. I don’t know. Florida didn’t do well. They’re not national champions. They didn’t perform like national champions, but I hate sports judged. Let’s just win it on the field or the meet or somewhere like that.

Nick:                         It’s always kind of weird to get subjective. You get that French judge from the Olympics, the fi