GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we’re joined by Chris Clark of Gamecock Central to preview the Florida Gators vs. South Carolina game in Columbia on Saturday.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre ask Clark about how South Carolina beat Georgia and his keys for Carolina on Saturday afternoon.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown the latest injury news surrounding the Gators, plus we talk about if the Gators should be favored against Georgia or not.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, moving on to South Carolina, and we’ll be joined by our good friend Chris Clark of Gamecock Central up there in Columbia to talk about this game and talk about Willie Muschamp.
Nick:                         Yeah. I mean, Willie Muschamp with his readers, his glasses, coming off probably the biggest win he’s had at South Carolina, would you say? I think it’s fair to say.
Andrew:                 100%.
Nick:                         Until they get over the hump and beat Clemson, which probably won’t ever happen. That’ll be the biggest win.
Andrew:                 Dabo’s going to go to Alabama one day.
Nick:                         Yeah, but will that happen before they run him out of town, before they run Muschamp out of town?
Andrew:                 Good question. That’s true. Well, if he keeps beating Georgia like he does. He finds a way to beat them. If he could just have Georgia on the schedule every year, or every game, he might have a Hall of Fame coaching career.
Nick:                         Before we get Chris on, someone on Gator Country posted on the message board. Is Kirby Smart just another Mark Richt? We’ll talk about that.
Andrew:                 Did you see that? Did you see that breakdown? Have you seen the breakdown?
Nick:                         Yeah.
Andrew:                 It is mildly concerning if I’m a Georgia fan, because here’s the way I look at it, and Nick, you can correct me if I’m wrong. Mark Richt never had the football players Kirby Smart had. Never had the football players Kirby Smart had. He had good football players, but Kirby’s got a roster full of five-stars.
Nick:                         Yeah. Kirby’s doing, Mark Richt had it good. He recruited well.
Andrew:                 Right.
Nick:                         But Kirby, we talk about it all the time. He signs 75 guys a class, and 76 of them are five-stars. I don’t know how it works, but it keeps working.
Andrew:                 Someone asked, and I don’t know where I was reading this at, but somebody asked one of the Georgia writers, does it hurt worse now seeing what Justin Fields is doing at Ohio State?
Nick:                         Wrong kid transferring.
Andrew:                 Yeah. What’s your take on that though, Nick? Do you think that Kirby is just average as a coach? What do you make of that? We can say what we want to say, but the numbers speak for themselves. That’s mildly concerning if you’re a Georgia fan that Mark Richt, who never won a championship, had the same record. I mean, identical.
Nick:                         Yeah. We can get more into it after Chris, but it’s early. I mean, like you said, Georgia’s recruiting at a crazy level. They’re still the defending SEC East Champions.
Andrew:                 But that didn’t mean anything when Florida was the defending SEC East Champions.
Nick:                         That’s different, because Florida went and go the pants beat off of them by Alabama.
Andrew:                 Sure, but at the end of the day, they both had the same results. Neither one of them won national championships.
Nick:                         Well, we can’t make it just about national championships. Mark Richt didn’t win anything.
Andrew:                 Right.