GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we preview SEC Media Days for the Florida Gators that starts next week in Hoover, Alabama.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown the Gators three players that will represent the team in Hoover next week, plus we talk about the rest of the players that will be in attendance.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown the latest in recruiting and the recent commits, plus we start to preview Friday Night Lights.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man Andrew Spivey here with Nicholas de la Torre. We’re kind of out of our summer month hiatus, and Monday starts football season pretty much. SEC Media Days will go back to Hoover. I kind of call it the heart of the SEC, with the SEC office there and all that good stuff. Even though I did like Atlanta last year. It’ll be the unofficial start of the season. Really, what, two weeks later the Gators get on the practice field.
Nick:                         Talking season is winding down, but it doesn’t wind down before we have the biggest talking event of the off season. Media Day, by the time you’re listening to this, I mean, Florida will already be done in a week’s time. Florida goes the first day, Monday, and we’re going to talk about who they’re bringing, who the rest of the SEC teams are bringing. There’s always something interesting that comes out of SEC Media Days, good or bad. Always something interesting. Then we will definitely pick the wrong champion as a media collective out there.
Andrew:                 Will Tennessee get a pick?
Nick:                         To win?
Andrew:                 Yeah.
Nick:                         No. I mean, yeah. Someone will. Not this guy.
Andrew:                 Just checking. My vote will be Alabama. Till they lose.
Nick:                         Not Georgia?
Andrew:                 Yeah. Okay. I do think I’ll pick Georgia to win the East, when it comes time. We can hit on that here in a few minutes. I do think I’ll probably go Alabama-Georgia. Just for the simple reason that until it happens, you know, Georgia is the team to beat right now. Do you agree with that?
Nick:                         Maybe. Yeah. How many guys do they have committed for this upcoming recruiting class? 40 again?
Andrew:                 40 again. Yeah. And they’re all five-stars. Let’s move on here. Florida announced on Wednesday. We’re taping this on Wednesday. You’ll be listening to this on Thursday. Florida announced that they’ll bring Feleipe Franks as the quarterback, Lamical Perine at running back, and Jabari for defense. I think there was a back and forth of would it be David Reese for the second time, or would it be Jabari. You had a good point about that, and that is you try to reward guys who come back for their senior year. That’s no disrespect to David Reese, but David Reese has already kind of got that shining moment of attending SEC Media Days last year, so give someone else a chance to go. I will say this. I think he might have took the three nontalkative guys for the most part, or the guys who will give the least headlines. Lamical is my guy, all that kind of stuff, but he’s a little bit more laidback. Jabari is the same way, and we all know what Feleipe is going to bring.
Nick:                         Yeah. I think the most interesting one to me was Feleipe Franks.
Andrew:                 Okay.
Nick:                         Florida hasn’t brought–
Andrew:                 We lost you for a second.
Nick:                         Sorry. Florida hasn’t brought a quarterback since Driskel went in back to back years, in 2013, 2014. It’s really just bringing a quarterback to SEC Media Days you’re not bringing your backup.
Andrew:                 Right.
Nick:                         You’re not bringing a guy that’s going to be in a split role really.