Podcast: Talking Florida Gators baseball and SEC softball tournament

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we preview this weekend’s diamond action as baseball host their last home series, plus the softball team is playing in the SEC tournament.
Andrew Spivey and Ethan Hughes talk about Tim Tebow potentially signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars, plus the latest recruiting news for the Gators.
Andrew and Ethan also break down what the baseball team needs to do this weekend to continue to trend in the right direction.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:​What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, back with Ethan. It’s a duo today, tag team. We’re back. Pretty jampacked show we got planned here, Ethan. Gators last weekend at home, correct?
Ethan:​In baseball, yes. Last home series against Georgia.
Andrew:​Overall, it’s been a good season at home. Welcome the new ballpark. Obviously, things could have went better overall. Let me ask you this. First impressions of the new stadium. Playing as you expect them?
Ethan:​It’s played pretty much like I expected. It’s a little bit bigger and more of a pitcher’s park than what McKethanStadium was, but at the same time, it plays very fair. If you absolutely crush a ball, like you saw with Jud Fabian and Chris Armstrong a couple times, it will still sail out of there in a hurry. From a playing standpoint, I think it plays very similar to what the stadium is like in Omaha. Just from a fan standpoint, it’s a gorgeous stadium. The shade is going to be so beneficial over the years with the heat and then rain. It’s one of the nicer stadiums in the country, I would imagine. I haven’t seen any other college baseball stadiums, but I think you’d be hard-pressed to build anything a whole lot nicer than that.
Andrew:​I haven’t seen Florida’s new stadium in person yet. We’ll see that soon. Seen a lot of stadiums around the SEC, the new box at LSU is beautiful. The thing about it is is they don’thave the whole 360 and being able to see the field from everywhere like the new Minor League stadiums are, and I’m a big Minor League guy. From the photos I’ve seen and the impressions I’ve gotten from people, Florida’s new stadium is as close to a Minor League ballpark as it is.
​Like you said, I think it plays true. If you hit the ball good enough to go out of the ballpark, it’s going to go out of the ballpark. It’s definitely an extra base hit ballpark in the gaps. Definitely a pitcher’s ballpark at times too. That’s kind of to be expected with Kevin O’Sullivan, even though this year hasn’t been a great pitching year overall, but we’ll get into that here in a minute.
​Softball was the SEC regular season champions, entered the SEC Tournament as the one seed. We’re taping this on Thursday, and they’re taking on Mississippi State in the first round of the SEC Tournament. Playing Mississippi State. Should be a good weekend for the Gators as well. They technically tied with Arkansas, but took the #1 seed over percentage points against Alabama, because they were the third seed, and Florida won two out of three against them. We’ll get into that in a minute.
​Some big news in the NFL. The man, the myth, the legend, the goat, Tim Tebow is expected to be signed to a one-year deal by the Jaguars to play tight end. You heard that right. Not quarterback, but tight end. After he worked out for Urban Meyer’s staff. Did not workout for Urban, as Urban said he didn’t want to be a part of it, so that no one called him biased or anything else, and I get that. Ethan, first impressions are what? You’re a Jaguar fan.
Ethan:​Urban can try to remove himself from the process as much as possible, but if he’s not the head coach of the Jaguars, I don’t think Tim Tebow’s getting a job in the League right now. From a Jaguar standpoint, it’s the worst tight end room in the NFL, possibly by a pretty large margin, so it’s kind of a low risk, high reward move. Either he’ll improve the position group and help the team get better,