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Talking satellite camps for the Florida Gators: Podcast

May 11, 2016

This GatorCountry podcast focuses on talking about the new rule of satellite camps and what exactly that means for college football teams like the Florida Gators football team.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down where the Florida Gators may camp at for satellite camps and where would be a good fit for those camps, plus how does the Gators benefit from it.

Andrew and Nick also preview the SEC softball tournament for the Florida Gators that starts on Thursday, plus they preview the baseball team's upcoming schedule.

TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:​Your man, Andrew Spivey here. My man, Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, what’s up, my man?
Nick:​How’s it going? Big week for the girls on the softball diamond. A big week for the boys on the diamond, and Swamp life is getting going. Football team is back on campus for summer, so getting a little action back on campus at the University of Florida.
Andrew:​Getting a little action back and getting some more championships. I think the number is 10. Ten conference championships already this year. Not a bad deal.
Nick:​No. Before we get into some football, you have a little beef with what was going on with softball.
Andrew:​Yeah. You see the post-season awards, and it’s post-season awards. I understand that it’s like, who cares about it? But I just don’t understand, how does the #1 and #2 pitchers in the country not win their conference championship award? I mean, their Conference Pitcher of the Year Award. Kelsey Nunley from Kentucky, and she had a good year, but Aleshia Ocasio and Delanie Gourley were #1 and #2 pitchers in the country, and they don’t get it? I don’t understand it. I just don’t. Then Kirsti Merritt, who is considered to be the best center fielder in the country, doesn’t even win Center Fielder of the Year on the defensive team. I’m dumbfounded here. I don’t understand how you can tell me that another pitcher deserves that over them. Then just tell me how a girl like Merritt doesn’t get center fielder on defensive team? To me that just makes these awards mean nothing to me, I guess.
Nick:​It’s the coaches that vote on the awards, right? To me, when you get a coach that votes on the award, now when we get into like the football ones, and you’re wondering is it a coach, or is it a grad assistant, someone that’s doing it? Then you start to wonder about what was going on. I think I like when the coaches vote on the awards, because they’re the ones watching film and stuff, but then that makes you even question, what was going on there?
Andrew:​Yeah. I don’t know. That’s another thing. I don’t know if it is the coaches. I’m guessing it’s the coaches that vote on it. I’m not exactly 100% sure, but I’m pretty sure that’s what it is. When you look at the awards, and Player of the Year was Kasey Cooper at Auburn, I’m okay with that. She had a great year. Florida probably didn’t have one girl that really stood out enough to be Player of the Year. You could have put one of those pitchers there as that. Then the Freshman of the Year was Amanda Lorenz, and that was a great one for Florida, 1 and 2 in the Freshman of the Year votings were Florida girls, Lorenz and then Kelly Barnhill, the pitcher. Then Coach of the Year is the Kentucky coach, and she deserved it. They were second. Tim Walton, I guess, doesn’t get that, because he’s been there. So that’s fine with me. When you have the #1 and #2 pitchers in the country, and they don’t get it, that would be like saying, Steph Curry, LeBron, you don’t get it. You’re #1 and #2, so Kobe, you’re retiring this year, you get it. People would laugh at that, right?
Nick:​Yeah. As we tape this, Steph Curry was voted unanimous MVP this year, first ever unanimous MVP in NBA history, which that’s pretty cool.
Andrew:​That’s pretty cool. As we’re taping this on Tuesday, Monday night he didn’t have a bad showing. I mean, he came in and decided he was going to put