GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we continue to preview the Florida Gators game against South Carolina on Saturday in Gainesville.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by Chris Clark of Gamecock Central to get his thoughts on the game and he gives us his take on this year’s South Carolina team.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown what Dan Mullen had to say on Monday about last Saturday’s win over Ole Miss.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we are here. It is Dan Mullen vs Will Muschamp. The fighting South Carolina Gamecocks come to town for a noon kickoff. It’s kind of weird to say that early in the year. Usually we’re thinking end of the year for South Carolina, at least not Game 2. But here we go, Game 2. It’s Mullen vs Muschamp.
Nick:                         Will Muschamp comes in where he typically is, on the hot seat.
Andrew:                 He lost to Tennessee, which to me says it’s over with, because, as you said, he usually doesn’t lose to Tennessee.
Nick:                         It’ll be interesting to see what our guy Chris says about Willie and what’s happening up in Columbia. The honeymoon, I’m sure, is over. It’ll be interesting to see what South Carolina looks like. They did show some fight. They were down big to Tennessee and made a little comeback. Ultimately, you fall short by four points, lose 31-27 to Tennessee. Start the year 0-1. What is the rest of the schedule? They got Florida this week, and then they get Vandy, which is okay. Then after that Auburn, LSU, Texas A&M.
Andrew:                 Going to be tough. We’re going to be joined by our good friend, Chris Clark, of Gamecocks Central up there here in just a minute. Get his thoughts on everything. It just seems like every year it’s the Will Muschamp hot seat. Kind of brings that question of do you get rid of him during the pandemic and all that stuff. We’ll talk more about this with Chris, but it just seemed like they got Mike Bobo, maybe they’re going to get the offense going. I guess they did. They scored 27 points, but the defense gave up 31.
I kind of relate it a little bit to my Falcons, and I guess I shouldn’t, because South Carolina didn’t blow consecutive 20-point games. It seems like every time there’s a big moment Muschamp seems to fail. You talked about this, I think, on Sunday, or on Monday’s podcast, kicking a field goal that late in the game when you’re down by 7. It’s like, what are you doing? It’s some of those moments that are just headscratchers for Will Muschamp.
Nick:                         Yeah. It’s almost like he just can’t get out of his own way, you know what I mean?
Andrew:                 Right. Yeah. Exactly.
Nick:                         He’s been a head coach for a decade, you’d think by now he would have figured that out, but nope.
Andrew:                 Let’s go to Chris. Let’s talk to Chris. We’ll get Chris’s thoughts on everything, and then we’ll come back and break down what Mullen had to say on Monday and give Florida’s side of things here, as we head into the game on Saturday. Let’s go to Chris, get his thoughts. We’ll come back and break it down.
Guys, we’re joined by my man, Chris Clark, here. Chris, first of all, how’s it going? I have to ask, did you think there was going to be football this year?
Chris:                       Man, I’m doing well. It’s good to be back on with you guys. I appreciate the opportunity, first of all. It depends on what time of year you asked me. We decided very early on we were getting so many questions, as I’m sure you guys were, and we had to tell people, look, it’s okay to say I don’t know this year. We had to say that a lot. When everything first started getting shut down from a recruiting standpoint and a team activity standpoint,