GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we preview National Signing Day for the Florida Gators recruiting class.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down how the official visits went last weekend, plus recap the three commits the Gators got.

Andrew and Nick also preview how they think the class will end up on Wednesday, plus they address the recent stuff from Miami that they were telling Florida commits.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, what a weekend, my friend.

Nick:                         Talked about perception. Talked about momentum. Got a chance in momentum, and a change in perception this weekend.

Andrew:                 You did. The Miami crock of shit turns against them. The truth comes out. When the truth comes out, as everyone says, “The truth will set you free.” It did. It came out. What are we surprised for, Nick? I’ve been preaching on this podcast for what? Two years now. Mark Richt’s not a saint, and the world found out on Saturday.

Nick:                         Interesting. We’ll do some facts.

Andrew:                 We’re bringing facts now? This ain’t Mark Richt then.

Nick:                         Somebody’s got to bring them. The Miami coaches didn’t start the rumor, but that doesn’t clear you from judgment. It doesn’t mean that you’re not in the wrong. Trying to take advantage of a rumor, whether or not you started it, can be just as bad, especially when you know that there’s not validity to the rumor. It would even be different if there was a shred of evidence, or a shred of truth in it. Okay, that’s some dirty recruiting to try to stretch the truth a little bit, but when you know that there’s no truth whatsoever to something, and you try to take advantage of it, it doesn’t matter if you start it or don’t start it, you’re just at fault. You’re guilty by association.

Andrew:                 Yeah. Here’s the thing. I got some blowback for the story I wrote on Saturday from some Miami fans, saying, “Well, it’s negative recruiting. Everybody negative recruits.” Yes, they do, but when you start talking about an NCAA rumor, Nick, you’re talking about effecting a man’s livelihood. You’re talking about a man getting fired from his job, like Joker Phillips got fired for the whole thing he did back in the day. You’re talking about getting someone fired. There’s a whole different thing about negative recruiting and then this. I kind of compared this with someone. It would be like a man going and telling a woman that her husband was cheating on her, was having an affair, with no evidence, just so you could get with her. There’s no morals there.

There is no gentleman’s code in recruiting and any of that, but there’s a moral standpoint. For me, it is what Miami is, and it is what Mark Richt is. He’s a dirty sleazebag. I don’t understand why people don’t get what he’s about. He’s a sleazebag. He puts up this motto of he’s this great Christian man, and I’ll never question a man’s faith. Maybe he is a good Christian man, but that’s on Sundays. The rest of the time he’s a sleazebag. The guy’s a sleazebag. I don’t understand why people in our business, Nick, and people around take his persona as what he is. He’s a sleazebag.

He is a sleazebag when it comes to it. He’s surrounded by sleazebags around his staff, and it is sickening to hear what he does. He calls Malik Davis up, tells Malik Florida’s going on probation for something they didn’t even do. Homestead sucks. They ain’t had a recruit since Ermon Lane, and you can really question Ermon Lane wasn’t even a recruit. He moved to DB. There is no morals. It’s sickening that you would do this.

I told this to someone, if Flori