GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we discuss the latest on the Florida Gators recruiting visits that took place last weekend when seven players took official visits.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre also discuss Mike Summers' leaving and when Jim McElwain is looking to add two coaches to the staff.

Andrew and Nick also discuss the basketball team and their latest win over the Georgia Bulldogs at home last Saturday.

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Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it’s supposed to be the off season. What’s all this news about all the time? I mean, I guess it goes back to your saying that it’s never dead in Florida recruiting and Florida football.

Nick:                         Yeah. There’s never an off season with Florida. Never a dull day. It is what it is. Got kids on campus this week, and Mike Summers not on campus.

Andrew:                 Yeah. There was a loud boom that was heard, and I think that was Florida fans for some reason. It’s crazy, but there is that opening, and you and I had said and speculated that it was going to happen. We had basically gotten to the point where we thought it was going to be after Signing Day, but Mac’s a loyal guy, as you say. As we’ve said before, some of the conversation probably went a lot like this, and that was, “Coach, probably should look for another job, because after February 1st you’re not going to be needed around here anymore.”

Nick:                         Yeah. I guess. Someone said to me like, “That seems like a lateral move,” and it’s like, “Man, where have you been?”

Andrew:                 Lateral it is.

Nick:                         It is what it is. You got to start finding some coaches here. It’s been over a month since Geoff Collins left. Now you’ve got two openings, so you got to start making some moves here if you’re Jim McElwain in filling some of these spots.

Andrew:                 We talked about this a little bit on the site on Monday, earlier today. We’re taping this on Monday. From everything we’ve been told Mac would love to have both guys in place this weekend, and I think it will. He would like to have them on the road this week to be able to get out and recruit. I think that particularly happens. Like you said, this wasn’t a situation where Mac was caught off guard with the offensive line. He was ready to make a move anyway. The crystal ball stuff, there was a little bit of smoke there, as we said, but Mac was never going to pay him a million bucks to be just the offensive line coach, because he has seven other, six other, assistant position coaches that aren’t making a million bucks. You just can’t do that, and there’s still a question of how good Cristobal really was as a coach.

Like you said, he has to. Now you’re down an offensive line coach. No kids are going to commit. No offensive linemen are going to commit without an offensive line coach. In the instance of Geoff Collins spot goes, you’re not missing a position coach, so you can take a little bit longer in that hiring.

Nick:                         I think you are a missing a position coach, because no linebacker is saying, “D bass is the linebackers coach.”

Andrew:                 It’s Randy Shannon, and he tells people, “I’m the linebacker coach.”

Nick:                         Then the secondary is saying, “Well, where’s our coach?”

Andrew:                 It’s Torrian Gray.

Nick:                         That’s not the safeties coach. You’re missing a coach.

Andrew:                 You’re missing a coach, but you’re not missing a position group. Yes, Geoff