Nick de la Torre and Andrew Spivey return with the Gator Country podcast, previewing some of the Florida Gators football early enrollees and redshirt freshmen that could make an impact on the field in 2016. The podcast takes a look at young players that will be thrust into big roles for Florida this spring and into next season.

As always you can listen to the podcast on our iTunes page (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gatorcountry.com-your-florida/id1022087835?mt=2)  or in the media player here. We also have provided a full transcript of the podcast below.

 

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, the Goat, Andrew Spivey, back again today. Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, say hello to the people.

Nick:                         What’s going on everybody? Just another beautiful day here in Gainesville. Not much to talk about. We got some basketball going on, young team, young coach. They’re still learning. Tons of recruiting. Recruiting is crazy, and we still got football. It’s transfer season. People are moving. Pieces are moving and shaking.

Andrew:                 I played golf today. Never a bad day when you can pull out the clubs and try to hit them straight.

Nick:                         That’s not bad.

Andrew:                 I said try. Don’t hold that against me. Try was the keyword. We’ll see. Not a very good day with the old flat stick. Like you said, transfer season. Grad transfers coming in. Guys deciding to leave, and coaches still being hired, as Auburn kind of made some news today by hiring Wesley McGriff from the Saints. If you’re an Auburn fan, are you a little worried? That Saints defense was not very good, and those are NFL players he’s coaching. Don’t get your hopes up, Auburn.

Nick:                         I think it’s a good hire. He was at Miami before. He was at Ole Miss as a DB coach. So he’s going to be the DB coach and co defensive coordinator at Auburn. You got to wonder. We both said that we thought, or we both thought that Auburn’s defense would be very good this year, because we both agree that Muschamp’s a very good defensive coach, and they simply weren’t. You got to hire somebody. So this guy has experience recruiting, has experience coaching at the college level. I don’t really hold success or failure at the NFL level against him.

Andrew:                 Yeah. The thing, I was talking about this with a couple people, is as bad as Will got a reputation for his defense this year, make no mistake. Auburn’s offense was Florida bad, not very good at all. At times it was really bad.

Nick:                         It’s amazing what a quarterback can do. The Gus bus was rolling along doing 60 with Cam, and you lose Cam. Now you’ve got a flat tire, and then a couple flat tires this year.

Andrew:                 A coach can only go as far as that franchise quarterback can take him.

Nick:                         Unless you are kind of like Alabama, and you build a factory, and you just have a guy who can come in and control the game and not lose the game for you.

Andrew:                 Or if you’re Auburn, excuse me, Ohio State or Baylor, where it’s just like #6 is coming in, so he’s only the 12th string quarterback for the day. He’s ready to go.

Nick:                         Unbelievable what happened to Baylor, first off, and then still to be able to win games, despite losing every quarterback on campus.

Andrew:                 Yeah.

Nick:                         While Florida was trying out kickers Baylor was about to have walk-on quarterback tryouts on campus.

Andrew:                 Yes. Speaking of that,