Summary: GatorCountry brings you a new podcast that’s loaded with news on the Florida Gators football team including the big news that seven Gators will miss the Michigan game.<br> Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down what happened and talk about how bad the Gators will miss those seven guys.<br> Andrew and Nick also break down Friday’s scrimmage where the quarterback position had two guys look really good in the Swamp.<br> TRANSCRIPT:<br> Andrew:What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, Saturdays and Sundays weren’t supposed to be busy.<br><br> Nick:I was supposed to be on a boat. I was supposed to be hanging out, chilling. Gators had different plans for me.<br><br> Andrew:Yeah. I was supposed to be doing the same. Different things. Saturday started with a whirlwind of smoke, and usually where there’s smoke there’s fire. It broke on Sunday afternoon. We’re taping this Sunday about 5:30, and seven Gator players have been suspended for the season opener against Michigan.<br><br> Obviously, Nick and I can’t get too much into the details of the why, simply because Nick nor I want a lawsuit against us. So seven players will be missing the Michigan game. Only one starter, if you want to look on the bright side of anything.<br><br> Nick:There’s a way to go about reporting stuff, and channels you go through as a journalist to fact check and get sources. You can’t go on just one or just two. If you’ve got 10 people telling you 10 different things, that doesn’t mean you have 10 sources. It means you’re probably getting run around by people. Sometimes you have to sit on stuff. We know about stuff that’s going on, and you can’t talk about it, because there’s an integrity that you have to have when you’re a journalist. You never want to drag somebody’s name through the mud when they’re not involved, and that can happen.<br><br> If we run with stuff the first time we hear it, I’m sure you’ll agree with this, most times the first time you hear a story is not 100% accurate. You have to go through channels and talk to a bunch of other people, and you never want to accuse somebody or put somebody’s name out there that isn’t involved in a situation. Then you get a player, player’s uncle, brother, friend, and I Google my buddy’s name, “I wonder what he’s doing up at Florida.” Now all of a sudden there’s a bad Google search for him for something that he didn’t do.<br><br> To me, you just have to be careful, and I think your buddy, Trey, up there in Nashville, I think he did a good job reporting it on his site. He runs the ReadOption.com, and he has the Ultimate SEC Show. I think he did a really good job and really went about dotting his I’s and crossing his T’s before he put stuff out there. It was pretty accurate.<br><br> Andrew:Yeah. I think it’s one of those things. It’s where you better be right, and even if you are right, it’s one of those situations where there was no proof. There is no hard evidence of this. It’s all hearsay. Obviously, we have this confirmed by multiple, multiple, and more multiple people. All people we trust and believe. It’s still one of those things where you hold back. Again, we knew there was going to be no criminal accusations. It was just going to be handled internally.<br><br> We know one site, I don’t even call it a site. I call it a blog. Posted about criminal charges of felony, all this other stuff. That was never the case. That was false. Had several freshmen involved. Like you say, Nick, you get parents involved, especially these guys that are out of state, when they’re getting called and their parents are like, “What did you do?” The kid’s like, “I don’t know. Why?” They’re getting these reports. It looks bad. It looks bad on these people. What do you expect from some of these people? Hey, Antonio Callaway and Treon Harris got in trouble because of dorm room noises, so what do you expect?
