Gator Country brings you a new podcast as we focus on the first official visit weekend for the Florida Gators that starts on Friday.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down which prospects are visiting Florida, plus what the Gators chances are with these guys.

Andrew and Nick also talk about the latest news surrounding the Gators coaching search, plus discuss the basketball team.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, recruiting’s back, as of midnight on Wednesday night. The roads were open, and the airfare miles are getting racked up.

Nick:                         I’m disappointed today.

Andrew:                 Why’s that?

Nick:                         Jim Harbaugh did not have a sleepover.

Andrew:                 That doesn’t happen until later in the process.

Nick:                         Okay. So there’s still time?

Andrew:                 There’s still time. There’s still time for the weird tree climbing.

Nick:                         Still time for grown men to have sleepovers with 17 year old kids.

Andrew:                 Yes, and have movie time, and all the other weird things that Mr. Harbaugh did.

Nick:                         I guess if it works.

Andrew:                 I’ll be honest, Nick. I love recruiting. Will not lie that I hope to one day get my hand back into it at the college level, but there’s a line I’m not crossing, and that is sleeping over with a 17 year old kid, unless he has a beautiful mom.

Nick:                         I feel like that’s a little inappropriate now. Let’s reel you back in.

Andrew:                 Lordy. So, it’s back on the road, and the good news is Florida’s back on the road. The bad news is they still didn’t fill that assistant coach, but the one thing I’ll say is this, and that is they did send Drew Hughes back on the road, and he’s visiting the Alabama kids. I, personally, think, outside of a few guys, I’d rather have Hughes going to recruit my Alabama guys than anybody.

Nick:                         Yeah. Let everyone know kind of, in case they’re new. We’ve gotten a lot of new people in the last year, what Drew’s job is, and how this is not really a part of his job, but it’s something he’s had to do the past two years because of coaching changes. Then kind of who he had a hand in recruiting last year.

Andrew:                 So, he’s Florida’s recruiting coordinator/director of player personnel. He’s a Montgomery native, and a guy that started his career out at Alabama under Nick Saban. His job is basically to line up all the visits. He’s the guy that makes all the offers, gets everyone set up. He basically is the guy that tells the coaches where to go, and he is usually not out on the road. I think if you ask him, he’s like, “Okay, sure. It’s better than being behind the desk,” but he’s not supposed to have to. Like you said, last year he was responsible for getting Perine, Jawaan Taylor the safety, and also getting Jeremiah Moon, whenever they came out of Alabama, and was also a very big of getting Quincy Litton to commit to Florida out of Meridian, Mississippi.

So, his background’s there, and, like I said, would you like to have an assistant coach on board to go recruit? Sure. I would say that if Florida was to get one, we’re taping this on Thursday, by Friday, then it ended up working out great, because you got to send Hughes to Alabama to recruit LaBryon Ray, to recruit Henry Ruggs, and the rest of those Alabama kids, but you need to find a new coach. You’ve got to.

Nick: