GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we talk about the return to campus for the Florida Gators’ football players next week.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre also breakdown the latest recruiting information as the Gators picked up two commits last week.
Andrew and Nick also talk about the quarterback position as the Gators now have two quarterback commits in the Class of 2021.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, football’s back. Gators added a QB commit. They added another athlete commit, and guys are starting to come back to campus. Let’s talk about it.
Nick:                         New quarterback commit. Second one for the class. You probably needed that just to figure out numbers after Jalon Jones. We’ll get into Mr. Kitna. Then we’ve already got football players back on campus getting Covid tested. Soon, June 8th, they’ll be lifting and doing football stuff.
Andrew:                 A lot has to go into it before they can actually get into football stuff. The coaches are really working hard on that. They kind of cut back on the virtual visits this week to do that, and now it looks like here in the next couple days to a week or so it looks like the NCAA will kind of announce the return to the football field. It looks like they’re going to give them six weeks before the first game. In my opinion, Nick, and I could be completely wrong here. Wouldn’t surprise me. Wouldn’t surprise anyone else. It does seem like there will be football on time. I think the biggest question mark that we have is will there be fans? If there are fans, how many fans? I don’t think you’re going to see 90,000 in the Swamp.
Nick:                         I don’t see any way.
Andrew:                 I don’t either. Then it comes down to, you and I have talked about this, if it’s only 50,000 or 40,000, whatever it may be, who gets those 40,000? There’s a lot of boosters. There’s a lot of students that go. I know there’s going to be some people who say, the students don’t show up anyway. Guess what? You got to have them.
Nick:                         I think you have to. You can’t not give students the opportunity to go to the game.
Andrew:                 Right. Then there’s going to be a lot of season ticket holders. There’s a lot of question marks there. Guess what, Nick? I’m going to be honest. I don’t care. Just give me football.
Nick:                         Yeah. I don’t know how many. I read a story, and they interviewed some Alabama fans, because they were saying what would it look like? How many does Bryant-Denny hold?
Andrew:                 Bryant-Denny is 101 maybe? 100. Something like that.
Nick:                         101. Let’s say, we’ll make it an even 100,000, just for math. Let’s say you can get 30%, so you get 30,000 people in.
Andrew:                 Right.
Nick:                         Who gets those 30,000 tickets?
Andrew:                 You have pissed off some people.
Nick:                         Let’s say we’re going to give a third of that, 10,000, to students. Then you’ve got six home games, so that means not every student can get to a game that year. Then there’s 70,000 people each game that won’t be going. Times that by six.
Andrew:                 Right.
Nick:                         Then you probably have to start looking at packages. We have six homes games, so you can buy season tickets for these three games. Obviously, I think they get Georgia this year.
Andrew:                 And Auburn.
Nick:                         At Bryant-Denny. And Auburn at Bryant-Denny.
Andrew:                 Right.
Nick:                         Those two games won’t be together. Then you’re going to get the North Southeastern Tech State that you have to package with Auburn,