This GatorCountry podcast focuses on the Florida Gators recruiting weekend this past weekend where the Gators hosted eight official visitors on campus.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down how each of the eight official visits went, plus break down which prospect the Gators have the best chance at landing.

Andrew and Nick also breakdown the Kirk Callahan firing and what it means for recruiting, plus who are some top candidates to replace Callahan at Florida.

TRANSCRIPT:

Nick:                         What’s going on, Gator Country podcast listeners? They don’t want you to listen to the podcast, but Andrew, we want you to listen anyway.

Andrew:                 That’s right. Listen if you want the news. If you don’t want the news, then don’t listen. If you want the scoop and the place for Gator news, Gator Country is the only place to be.

Nick:                         Major key. We’ve got some stuff going down in Gator Nation. We’ll start off with Signing Day is approaching, and Florida will go into Signing Day, as we’re talking now, it might change this week, but as of now Florida does not have a defensive backs coach after making a move and parting ways with Kirk Callahan who only spent one year at Florida after a couple years at UCF. I guess the first thing that’ll be on everyone’s mind, Andrew, that you can answer, is how does this affect recruiting as far as defensive backs who were looking at Florida? Who’s going to be my position coach? We had kind of talked about Florida the past couple years had kind of a had to deal with some negative recruiting in the sense of you don’t know if Muschamp’s going to be there, or that entire coaching staff’s going to be there. They’ve kind of avoided that until this point. What does this change, what does this move do?

Andrew:                 Is it good? No. Never is a coaching change good. I’ll say this. This is with all due respect to Kirk Callahan, who is a phenomenal football coach. Let’s put it that way. I think he’s a very good football coach. Recruiting probably wasn’t his strong suit, and that’s what probably is a good thing for Florida here in that he didn’t have the best relationships with a lot of guys. He didn’t have bad relationships. Let’s not go there, but guys like Kristian Fulton, he was more close to Tim Skipper than anyone. A guy like Quincy Litton is more close to Geoff Collins. You’ve got CJ McWilliams is more close to Randy Shannon. Aaron Robinson’s close to Kerry Dixon. It’s kind of that way.

While it isn’t a good thing that you lose your DB coach, it is good that those guys had relationships otherwise. I say the same thing even with kind of what we talked about before. Florida did a good job in not having one coach on each guy. If Kirk Callahan leaves, it’s good that there’s other coaches involved. You and I talked about this in the off season about Florida’s recruiting strategies. It’s a good thing for Florida that they’re there, but Florida needs to get a DB coach and need to get one pretty soon, in my opinion.

Nick:                         You’re under the opinion, because the staff was not complete by Signing Day, if I remember correctly, it was not complete by Signing Day last year, but you’re of the opinion that Florida needs to get somebody in when you’re starting to look at guys like Kristian Fulton, some DBs that Florida is still trying to fill this class with. In your opinion it would be better for them the sooner the better, even though Jim McElwain has kind of shown that he’s not going to rush decisions, and he showed that when he was hired. People were getting on him. Why isn’t the staff hired? I think to McElwain it’s more important for him to make the right hire than to make a quick hire just so it’s done.

Andrew:                 Yeah. I