GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we start to preview the Florida Gators game vs. Georgia on Saturday in Jacksonville.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre are joined by Barrett Sallee of CBSSports to get his thoughts on the game, plus what he’s looking for out of the game.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown what Dan Mullen had to say about the game, plus we give our thoughts on Saturday’s game.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re back and getting ready to talk some Florida-Georgia. Going to be joined by our man Barrett Sallee of CBS Sports, a good friend of the show. Comes on every year. Going to get his thoughts on this game and see what his keys are.
Nick:                         Yeah. Barrett riled up social media yesterday. Listen, Barrett is good at his job. He’s fair and a good friend to you and I over the years.
Andrew:                 And not a Georgia fan.
Nick:                         No. He’s not a Georgia fan. You can’t tell Twitter that.
Andrew:                 I believe he went to Auburn.
Nick:                         We’ll ask him. Barrett will say, he hates your team. It doesn’t matter what your team is, he hates your team. That’s his running joke.
Andrew:                 Exactly. Get his thoughts on that. Then we’re going to come back. Dan Mullen talked to the media on Tuesday, and so did Todd Grantham and Brian Johnson, so we’ll talk about that as well. Just start to dive into this game a little bit more, as we get into now Wednesday of Florida-Georgia week.
Nick:                         Let’s go.
Andrew:                 Let’s go to Barrett, and we’ll come back. Then we’ll talk about what Mullen had to say.
Guys, we’re back with our man, Barrett. First of all, Barrett, thanks for coming on. I’ll say it for everyone, we apologize about how Florida fans acted to you this week.
Barrett:                  It’s all good. Honestly, I’m honest about things, and if people don’t like it, people don’t like my opinions, that’s fine. That’s totally okay. It happens every week for some fanbase that gets all bent out of shape. Look, someone’s got to be the internet’s punching bag. It might as well be me, someone who can have fun with it, and not somebody who can’t, like someone who rhymes with Culkin.
Andrew:                 He gets a little furious. Here’s the thing with all of it, Barrett. I told this to Nick, and I’ll ask you the same question with the whole Mullen thing. Would it have been as bad had he not been in the headlines the last two weeks? With the whole 90,000 people, the whole voting thing that was nonsense. Would things have been as bad on Saturday had he just not piled mistake on top of mistake?
Barrett:                  It wouldn’t in my mind. Honestly, I separate all that stuff. I know there are more folks that try to lump everything together, and that didn’t shape my opinion on it. In the national media, yeah. There probably was a little more to that. But no, for me, it was a nonfactor. I kind of take things and segment them out and compartmentalize. I just view it for what it is, and that’s Dan making a couple of big-time mistakes.
Andrew:                 He’s been known for his …
Nick:                         I think a lot of it is that because of the comments he’s made, the 90,000 and doubling down, only walking it back kind of after having to go to the principal’s office and be told to walk it back, and then the whole Covid thing. That all happens within like a 72-hour span.
I think you just have you’re under a microscope now from people that interested in college football, but you’ve also made yourself and your program a national story. So, now you have people who maybe aren’t familiar with Dan and kind of the way he talks and does things now paying attention to him.