In All Kinds Of Weather Forecast: A Florida Gators podcast

We've been promising a very special guest for our schedule breakdown episode, and now it's time to deliver on that promise. Former Gator All-American wide receiver (and current SEC Network studio analyst) Chris Doering was gracious enough to join us to discuss Florida's ten game, SEC-only 2020 football schedule in detail. We also broadened the discussion to exchange thoughts about the future of the SEC scheduling process, reminisced with Doering about his own playing days, and got his prediction for the 2020 SEC Championship Game.

While the world waits to be given more clarity on a 2020 college football season that's completely up in the air, Dan Mullen and his staff have continued their run on the recruiting trail by landing a pair of top defensive backs from Miami Palmetto. Neil and Dustin break down the tape of each of the Gators' new commits and then turn the discussion to the big picture: just how well of a job, exactly, is Mullen doing on the trail?

Much has happened in the world of Gator football since our last episode, some good, some not so good. Florida picked up a quartet of new commitments in its 2021 recruiting class, but lost its chance to beat FSU for the third year in a row as the SEC announced its intentions to play a ten game, conference-only schedule. In this episode, Neil, Casey and Dustin share their thoughts on that and more, while setting the stage for the next few episodes to come.

Last September, Kentucky linebacker Kash Daniel made headlines for twisting and yanking on the ankle of Florida quarterback Kyle Trask after a play. Today, for the first time, Kash steps into enemy territory to face a jury of Gator fans (host Dustin Smith and In All Kinds Of Weather founder Neil Shulman) and take the heat for that infamous play. We did not hold back.

Some of the tough questions include “what were you thinking?”, “why would you not apologize immediately after realizing what you’d done?” and “how can we know you’re a different person than the one we saw trying to hurt our quarterback?” We also talk about mental health, his private apology to Trask and more in a conversation that ultimately introduced us to a whole new side of Daniel we never knew existed.

Coming from people who were as angry as anybody for that play, we understand that not everybody is going to be willing to forgive Daniel right away. If you do, great. If you don’t, that’s totally understandable too. But it is our hope that at the very least, everybody is willing to listen to what he has to say, and give him a chance.

Former Florida offensive lineman Shannon Snell becomes the first guest on the In All Kinds Of Weather Forecast, and the Tampa native certainly set the bar high. Snell, a 2000 SEC Champion and a 2003 All-American, shares his unique perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: the racial tensions plaguing our country, a particularly nauseating racial encounter in his past, his famous "Relationship Ribs," his prophecy that his Gators would upset a top five Georgia team in 2002, the 2020 Gator team, and more.

In the first post-introductory episode of the In All Kinds Of Weather Forecast, Dustin, Casey and Neil take a few moments to remember Gator football legend Reche Caldwell, as well as wondering aloud if Johnnie Brown's redirection to JUCO is something Gator fans should be alarming about. The crew then discusses the specifics of how, exactly, COVID-19 has changed the offseason game plan for Dan Mullen's program and how the pandemic's impact could continue to be felt throughout the year.

In the inaugural In All Kinds Of Weather Forecast episode, we meet new host Dustin Smith, while IAKOW founder Neil Shulman and contributor Casey Hampton discuss the current state of the Florida football and basketball, as well as lament what could have been for the Gator baseball and softball teams as COVID-19 destroyed what were shaping up to be promising seasons for each of them.