HOOVER, Ala.- Gator Country brings you a new podcast as we recap what happened at SEC Media Days for the Florida Gators and the other SEC teams.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down what head coach Jim McElwain said, plus how Marcus Maye, Jarrad Davis and David Sharpe did during the event.
Andrew and Nick also give you their preseason All-SEC picks, plus pick who they think will represent each division in the SEC championship.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Day 3 is over with, heading into last day of Media Days. Florida has come and gone, and Coach Mac is now probably enjoying Montana again. Nothing new. Nothing surprising out of Coach Mac so far, but I guess what’s your impression of the first three days before the last day comes on Thursday?

Nick:                         It’s kind of been a bland Media Day, would you say that? As far as everybody’s kind of toeing the company line. Jarrad Davis maybe the most outspoken guy of Florida’s group. I wouldn’t even say talking shit. It’s kind of just very confident when asked about Tennessee. Very confident in his team. My dude Jojo Kemps from Kentucky probably stole the show. He was just loving life, loved being in Birmingham. Threw the shout out to Laura Rutledge to follow him back on Twitter to make sure. So shooters shoot. Jojo Kemp came to Hoover and shot his shot.

Andrew:                 That’s pretty cool. I didn’t see that. That was pretty interesting. Like you just said, with Jarrad Davis was he talking smack or anything like that? No, but he said what everybody thought. Would you agree with that? I mean, he said what everyone thought, and that is that it’s been 11 in a row. Show me you can beat me, then I’ll believe it. Then, of course, Jarrad Davis doesn’t want to be that team. Nobody ever wants to be that guy that allows that streak to end. That’d be kind of devastating for Jarrad Davis and all these guys that leave to say, well the last game I played against Tennessee was the first time they beat us since 2004.

Nick:                         Yeah, and that’s something that we’ve talked about with Kentucky. I’m 27 years old. Florida’s never lost to Kentucky in my lifetime, and that’s something that Florida players mention when we get into Kentucky week and we’re talking to them. We don’t want to be the class that does it. We don’t want to be the class that ends that streak. Kentucky’s not really a rival, so that kind of feeling is amped up tenfold when you’re talking about Tennessee. Jarrad Davis, I told some of the national guys, so when Florida comes through the national guys that we’re friendly with kind of ask us, what’s Jarrad Davis like? What’s David Sharpe like? What are these guys like? What’s a way to phrase questions to get them to open up a little bit?

I said, Jarrad Davis is one of the most sincere, one of the most thoughtful and genuine people that you will ever talk to. When you ask him a question he’s really going to open up, and I think the best thing Jarrad Davis did was really open up when somebody asked him about domestic violence, which is becoming sort of a disturbing trend, not just in college athletics, but in athletics across the board. He opened it up, and Jarrad Davis gives this heartfelt message, and really ends it with, “Coach Mac tells us, you don’t have to worry about that if you’re doing the right things,” and I think that was a message that Mac wanted to get across, and something that you could see Jarrad Davis did get across, but it come across as that was on my cue card that I read on the plane of things to make sure to say. It came off very genuine.

Andrew:                 That was one, and also when he was asked kind of about off the field issues, domestic violence, th