GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we continue to talk about fall camp for the Florida Gators football team as they enter week two of camp.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown what Dan Mullen had to say on Tuesday during his press conference.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown the latest surrounding the team and give their thoughts on what they’re hearing out of camp so far.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, another Dan Mullen press conference in the books, so I guess we’re still on the right track. Let’s just call it like that. Let’s just say that. We’re still on the right track. You nor I will jinx the season and say anything else, but we’re on the right track.
Nick:                         Florida hasn’t had a positive Covid test since July, but we’re getting students on campus, and you’re seeing all over the place what happens when college kids come back, and they want to party, and you’re not going to tell a 20 year old kid not to go to a party. We talked to Dan about that today. You just got to trust your football players to make smart decisions once the other students come back.
Andrew:                 Alabama, Auburn, North Carolina, North Carolina State. Several of those schools have had high numbers per se.
Nick:                         North Carolina, having gone to school up there, the North Carolina schools, that’s a whole different ballgame. You’ve got like three major schools within 20 miles of each other, Duke, UNC, NC State, Wake Forest. They’re all within like a 45-minute, hour drive of each other. That’s like a whole different ballgame.
Andrew:                 Yeah. I just was saying those schools have had the positive tests. I was telling you, Alabama and Auburn have had some stories about partying and all that kind of stuff. But it’s like you said, it was rush week and that kind of stuff, so you’re going to have that stuff there. The thing you hope is that your football team isn’t at those frat parties or sorority parties or in Midtown and that kind of stuff. You’re hoping they’re not there, because that’s where it would spread to the team.
I think, and you’ll have to correct me here, Dan Mullen said it would be crazy to think that there’s not going to be some outbreak within the campus in general when kids come back and school starts. You just hope, like you say, it doesn’t come to the football team.
Nick:                         I’m going through the transcript now. I think he said it’d be ridiculous to think that they’re not going to get a positive test. I think everyone’s going to at some point. I think to me, and we’ve talked about it before on the pod, is that when Florida first came back, and Dan Mullen’s mentioned it a couple times, when they first came back and it was voluntary workouts, and then you had guys coming and going, that’s when they really had positive tests. When they kind of locked down, really during the summer though, also you’re in like a quasi-bubble, because there’s not students really on campus. It was really only the women’s soccer team, the basketball team showed up, volleyball’s on campus, and football, but really that was it. You’re almost in like a bubble, because you’re just with mainly student athletes on campus, and everyone’s getting tested and just kind of hanging out with yourselves.
They haven’t had a test, but it’s like you said, now it’s going to be a real test. Even it’s just your girlfriend, and your girlfriend goes to a party, and now she gets it, and you’re like, I didn’t go out. I didn’t do anything. I didn’t go to a frat party. I didn’t go to the bar. Well, someone that you were with did. Those are the kind of decisions that you have to make. I think what you saw Florida do, the football team at least, just realize after a bunch of positive tests how easily it can spread and how se...