GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we breakdown the latest news from fall camp for the Florida Gators.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown how the second scrimmage went for the Gators on Monday and who looked good during the scrimmage.
Andrew and Nick breakdown which guys have had a good fall camp and which freshmen could play a lot this fall.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, back. Gators had their second and final scrimmage. We’re now, today is September 9th, we’re taping this. Gators have 17 days before they kick it off. Football season is right around the corner.
Nick:                         Football season for Florida is around the corner. When this podcast goes out, depending on when you’re listening to it, Miami might be playing on your TV. ACC starts on Thursday with Miami. Full slate of games on Saturday. We’re back.
Andrew:                 Sunbelt started last week. My Jaguars got a win, and then ran the Southern Miss coach out of town. What’s that?
Nick:                         South in your mouth.
Andrew:                 That’s right. That’s right.
Nick:                         South in your mouth.
Andrew:                 They also opened their new stadium this weekend.
Nick:                         It does kind of look like a Texas high school football stadium, but a lot of Texas high school football stadiums look like college football stadiums.
Andrew:                 Yeah. It sucks, because you had everything planned. They were ready to go, and they were ready to have a nice opening of the stadium and everything else. Now it’s going to be 6,000 fans. It’s going to suck, but what do you do?
Nick:                         We talked about that. It’s huge financial hit to the schools like South and those non-Power Five schools, not being able to play. South was going to get a nice paycheck from Florida. They were going to get a nice paycheck. That stuff pays for all that, and then you just built a brand-new stadium. Ticket sales, concessions are going to help foot that bill. That money’s gone. I’m just happy we’re playing football, and I’m sure South would rather be taking the financial hit that they’re taking right now than not having football at all.
Andrew:                 They actually had to drive the two hours to Hattiesburg for their game the day of the game. They didn’t even stay.
Nick:                         Listen to this story, everyone. You told me this, I think the day before the game or the day of the game. This is a wild story.
Andrew:                 They drive up, get to the stadium, dress for walkthrough at 4:00, get off the bus, go to the field for walkthrough, do all their things. Go in, get dressed for pre-game, and go back out. They had a team meal and everything on the bus. Insane. You think about the creatures of habit everyone is, where Dan Mullen has everything from Friday night to Saturday morning planned out. What would happen if they had to drive to Tallahassee the day of the game? It’d be insane.
Nick:                         I guess, of the away games this year, you’re not driving to College Station.
Andrew:                 No.
Nick:                         Oxford is a 10-hour car drive, 9.5-hour car drive in a bus. That might be 12 hours. You’re not going to do that. Shoot, Knoxville and Nashville, those aren’t drives either. Maybe you could probably do it for Florida-Georgia in Jacksonville. That would probably take two hours in a bus.
Andrew:                 Still, they always go up the day before and have their little walkthrough in the stadium on Friday, and then go to St. Augustine and stay the night, and then drive over to the stadium on Saturday morning.
Nick:                         That’s rough. Hopefully we won’t get to that.