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Fall camp and Antonio Callaway podcast- Florida Gators

August 10, 2016

Gator Country brings you  a new podcast breaking down the latest around Florida Gators fall camp, plus the latest on Antonio Callaway.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre give you the latest on which guys are doing well in practice, plus what's really going on with Callaway.

Andrew and Nick also break down the recent commitment of tight end Zech Byrd who committed to Florida on Saturday night.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man right here, Andrew Spivey, with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, what’s up, my man? Podcast back. We got to get this more regular.

Nick:                         Yeah. We’ll get more regular. Florida is going on to two a days on Tuesday. Wednesday will be an off day. Two a days on Thursday. So as more football goes on, as we get close to the season, we’ll get back to it. Our think our schedule was four or five days a week last year, so we’ll be back to that as soon as the season gets a little bit closer.

Andrew:                 Two a days are always my favorite part. It’s kind of a long start in football with the ability to kind of go to summer workouts a little bit, and fall camp being longer. It’s kind of a long start, especially in high school ball. I remember in high school ball having two a days, and then one year, my second year of coaching, we had three a days. We went up to Troy for football camp and had three a days. You talk about separating the men from the boys, that was there. I don’t know. I thought it was good, because I thought it made the team come closer together during those two a days. Glad to see Florida still has some of it, even though it’s not a ton.

Nick:                         Yeah. You kind of see, took a video of it in the spring, Florida’s got those tackling circles as the head trauma cases are making big news in football. NFL teams are moving to tackling dummies and stuff like that. I don’t know about three a days though. I’d probably tap out.

Andrew:                 Tap out? Come on, man. Can’t be tapping out. It’s a situation where you become a different player. It’s time to separate the weak, and it was the schedule, I’ll give you a quick little rundown on the schedule, and it sucked even for me, because, Nick, you know about me and my sleep. You know about that, and it was 6:00 AM wake up call. Breakfast was at 6:30. You had meetings from 7:00-7:30, practice at 8:00 that lasts till 10:30. You came in, you ate lunch. You had meetings from 12:00-1:00. You had practice from 1:00-3:00. Down time from 3:00-4:00, and then dinner from 4:00-5:00, and then you were back out practicing at 7:00, 7:00-9:00. Then had a quick snack, bedtime, and then up again at it. That was four days straight.

Nick:                         That sounds terrible. That sounds awful. When am I sleeping?

Andrew:                 It was fun.

Nick:                         Sleeping on the football field after that last practice. The whistle blows. Coach says, “Hey, you guys can go home,” and I just lay down at midfield, and I’m out.

Andrew:                 You’re out?

Nick:                         Done. Game over.

Andrew:                 Tapping out. I’m quitting. You’re going to be…

Nick:                         Not going to shower. Not going to take my pads off. Just wake me up when practice is starting the next morning, and I’ll be dressed and ready to go again.

Andrew:                 No, you wouldn’t, because you need dinner four times a day.

Nick:                         Yeah. I would also need someone, maybe you would bring me food out.

Andrew:                 No joke though, I do, I really like two a days, an