GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as this time we're joined by quarterback commit Jake Allen to talk Florida Gators recruiting, plus how his summer has gone this year.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre discuss with Allen which players he's actively recruiting, plus who he was able to hang out with and watch during his summer's two events.

Andrew and Nick also talk about the difficult ending to the Florida Gators baseball season, plus preview who could replace the guys that are leaving the team this year.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? It’s again your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, not the ending to baseball we all expected maybe, wanted, but good season so far. It was a good season. I thought a lot of good players. What are you thinking? Disappointed, for sure. Failure?

Nick:                         I think, you know, there’s 295 teams in Division I baseball, so to say that we’re one of the last eight teams playing, we didn’t win a championship; that’s a failure. I think no in one breath, and then in the second breath I think, this team kind of put that expectation on themselves, and they came into the season almost with a national championship or bust kind of mentality.

Andrew:                 Right.

Nick:                         So that doesn’t happen, you don’t win a national championship, but 294 teams don’t win a national championship. So they’re disappointed, but I don’t think you can call the season as a whole a disappointment. When you look at the season that Pete Alonso had. When you look at Dalton Guthrie, there were so many questions about what he would do at shortstop, fantastic season. Jonathan India, along with the other freshmen, Deacon Liput, Jackson Kowar, Brady Singer, there’s a lot of positives from the season. Logan Shore breaking a school record for consecutive wins. 52-16 is a damn good record. You don’t win the SEC regular season. You don’t win the SEC Tournament, and you go 0-2 in Omaha, so that is disappointing, but I think the season as a whole is not a disappointment. Disappointing ending to a pretty spectacular season.

Andrew:                 We’ll talk more about that here in just a little bit. We do have a surprise today though. Gator commit, Gator Twitter recruiter, whatever you want to call him, Jake Allen is going to be joining us here in just a moment. We’re going to talk a lot of things with Jake, Nick. There’s some shakiness going on with recruiting a little bit. We’ll talk about that with Jake, and then we’ll talk about that afterwards. You and I can break that down a little bit. We’ll talk to Jake and get his thoughts on where recruiting is. He’s had two big events in the last month. He was out in Cali at the Elite 11, the semi-finals. Didn’t make the cut to go to the opening, but still had a good performance. Then he was at the Rivals Five Star Challenge in Atlanta, and had a good event there. So we can talk to him about that, and see just where his mindset is of this recruiting class.

Nick:                         Shameless plug, STA Raider, so always love to have a fellow Raider on the podcast.

Andrew:                 That was one of the stipulations I had with Jake. He could come on the show, but there was no STA pride talk and yada, yada, yada. Let’s not make the people wait anymore. I know Jake’s ready. Should we just go ahead to Jake, or we should keep going here a little bit?

Nick:                         We’ll go. I’ll see if I can even find the Bell Song and add that in. Jake will know what I’m talking about. Add the Bell Song in to lead Jake in.

Andrew:                 There you go. Let’s go to Jake real quick.

Welcome back, guys. We’re joined by the Jake Allen from St.