GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we break down Scottie Lewis’ decision to return to the Florida Gators basketball team.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by Eric Fawcett to talk about why he think Lewis returned to Florida, plus what it means to the basketball team.
Andrew and Nick also talk recruiting and other Florida Gators sports that are on hold due to the cornavirus.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re on like a month of quarantine here. Are you holding up? Are you killing yourself yet? What’s the deal over there?
Nick:                         There’s like a little park by my house. I try to go and get a workout and get some fresh air and some sun when I can and playing video games like I’m back in college. There’s only so much to do. Just kind of got to ride it out.
Andrew:                 I’ve played more video games in the last three weeks than I’ve probably played in the last 10 years, just being honest.
Nick:                         I know you’re playing, MLB 2K came out, or The Show came out, and I’m like, great time. Great time to be stuck inside.
Andrew:                 Beat Call of Duty, and now I’m playing The Show and rising through the ranks. Whatever. I might take watching some gymnastics or tennis or anything right now. Shoot, I’d even watch soccer, and I hate soccer. Just give me some live sporting events.
Nick:                         We’ll get into it, because Dana White is a gangster.
Andrew:                 Oh yeah.
Nick:                         He is buying a private island, and he is putting on fights. I don’t know if it’s healthy. I don’t know if maybe, I’m probably being shortsighted. I just want to see some fight. I just want to see something normal, and if Dana White’s going to buy a private island, and he’s got adults who are going to go and get tested and go fight on Dana White’s private island, so we can have UFC Pay-per-views, go for it, bro.
Andrew:                 Yeah. I see Vince McMahon’s still doing his thing. I see that rolling through Twitter all the time.
Nick:                         That’s when you know I’ve gone crazy.
Andrew:                 Yes.
Nick:                         I’ve lost it if I start tuning in. Not against anything to anyone if you like WWE, and you like professional wrestling, good for you. Not my cup of tea. If I start watching and tweeting and putting stuff on the message boards about the WWE, that’s when you know I’ve lost it. Have somebody come check on me.
Andrew:                 I’ll only watch WWE if Ronda Rousey’s wrestling. That is it. I’m just a Ronda Rousey fan. Besides that, could care less about it. Yes. See that rolling through Twitter and people tweeting about that.
There is a little bit of Gator news though, and that’s what we come to talk about today. Scottie Lewis surprised a lot of people on Monday when he announced he’s returning to school. A decision that I think, and we’re going to get into this more with Eric here, but a decision that I think was unexpected by many. We’ll see what it causes as far as scholarships, if it causes any problems. Wanted to talk to Eric about this, and we’re going to bring him on and ask him did the Coronavirus kind of push him to come back? This surprised me. It wasn’t because Scottie Lewis was a first-round pick. A lot of people had him late second, but the notion was Scottie Lewis was all but gone. He’s an older freshman. He was all but gone and had no intentions of coming back.
Nick:                         Yeah. I think what’s going on right now and the state of the world. The NFL Draft is going to be …
Andrew:                 Live from Roger Goodell’s home.
Nick:                         Yeah. The NFL Draft’s going to be not virtual but remote.