Gator Country brings you a Friday bye week Florida Gators recruiting podcast as we talk about where the coaches have been this week and who they've visited this week.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down the top guys that the Gators are after at some key positions, plus talk about why Florida is struggling with offensive line recruiting.

Andrew and Nick also talk about the latest injuries for this Gators football, plus predict some key SEC games this Saturday.

TRANSCRIPT:

Friday Bye Week

Andrew:Hello, Gator Country. Your man right here, Andrew Spivey, with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it’s Friday bye week. Not much to talk about, but I don’t know about you, but it’s been a much needed bye week. I’ve actually caught up on a little bit of sleep, and I’m ready.
Nick:Normally this bye week I would have been exhausted, but I got a bye week two weeks ago.
Andrew:Yeah. It’s the bye week, but it’s not a bye week. We’ve been pounding the recruiting stories left, right, and sideways. Let’s go.
Nick:That’s what happens. The team doesn’t have a game, and the coaches, almost a super needed bye week in the sense of recruiting when you think of what Florida’s lost as far as recruiting weekends. You lost two home games, including your only home game worth a damn on the schedule this year. That takes a huge hit for recruiting. We might be catching up on rest, but the coaching staff sure isn’t.
Andrew:I said that, I think on Wednesday, maybe it was on Monday, but this might be the most important bye week Florida’s had in five years. You see it. You see it’s a more jampacked bye week. Usually Florida doesn’t go out on the road on Tuesday. Usually they let the staff kind of get a little rest on Tuesday, but they were out. They’re seeing more kids that usual, because of that whole not having that game. Trying to get out there, see more guys, and trying to get more guys on campus for that South Carolina game.
Also, Florida’s a little bit different. That is they do exactly like Alabama does, and I say that not in a bad thing. I actually like it, but Florida doesn’t send their staff out during a game week. I know Georgia, for instance, Kirby Smart was talking about this on Wednesday on the teleconference. He was like, “We’ve been able to see a lot of our in state guys this year during the season, because we were able to send some of our guys out on Friday night.”
Florida, Bama, a couple other schools, they don’t do that. They’re all focused on the task at hand, the game at hand, when they’re in season, and they only send their guys out really on the bye week, unless it’s Presbyterian week. They may send someone out, which now that doesn’t have to worry about. It’s more important for Florida and teams that don’t to get out and do that, and have they seen a lot of guys. They’ve seen about 50 on Monday and Tuesday, and Thursday and Friday are going to be jampacked as well.
Nick:Explain to me how you can see that many kids. That’s 10 kids a day.
Andrew:I mean, work from sunup to sundown. That’s about it.
Nick:Log in some miles. Maybe the private jets moving around. That’s a lot of action, and it’s not just in the state of Florida. They’re in Texas. I think they were in California.
Andrew:On Monday, I’ll pull it up real quick while we’re talking about this. On Monday Florida was in Virginia. Coach Mac himself was in Virginia and Michigan all in one day. They were also in California with Tim Skipper. They were also in Georgia and Alabama, and also south Florida. They were in six states all on one day, and then they turned around on Tuesday and were in Georgia again. They were in Mississippi, Alabama, New Orleans, south Florida, Texas. So they’ve been all over the place. Like I said, it’s good, because the staff is just really putting in the work. I continue to say this, and it sounds cliché that I continue to say this, but the lack of offensive linemen is really