UF Tradition of Athletic Success

[ocalaman]

Success is Our Tradition:

• Florida has won 38 national championships, including two this year (women's tennis and men's outdoor track and field). UF has won at least one national championship in each of the last nine academic years. Florida has won 17 national championships during the last nine years and has won multiple national titles in 10 seasons.
• Florida is the only athletic department in the country to finish among the top 10 in national all-sports rankings in each of the last 33 years.
• Florida was the first school to win the Capital One Cup in both the men's and the women's competition since the Cup was introduced in the 2010-11 season. The Gator men's program won the first two men's Capital One Cups in 2011 and 2012 and the women captured the 2014 Cup. In the five-year history of the Capital One Cup, Florida is the only program to finish each season in the men's and women's top 10.
• Florida has won the SEC All-Sports Trophy 27 times, including a sweep of the men's, women's and overall title 16 times - no other league school has pulled that feat off once.
• The Gators have 241 conference championships, including 234 in the SEC, which is almost 100 more than the next conference school.
• Seventy-eight percent of the 2017 spring graduates (46 individuals) were part of a national and/or Southeastern Conference championship team during their Gator careers.
• Since 1992, UF has honored 107 Academic All-Americans to rank fifth among all Division I colleges and overall UF student-athletes have picked up 136 Academic All-Americans. Five Gators have been selected to the Capital One Academic All-American Hall of Fame, the second best total in the nation.

Here's the link that this was cut and pasted from: http://floridagators.com/news/2017/...-contribution-adjustment-for-2018-season.aspx

 

[instaGATOR]

Beat me to it ocala, but here is my take on it anyway.

For those that constantly scream that the college players should get paid....

By the time a Gator student-athlete walks across the graduation stage, the private UAA will have invested approximately $350,000 in that individual, (tuition, housing, cost of attendance, incidental meals, etc.). $350,000 / 4 = $87,500 per year

While the rest of the normal student body has to pay their own way with some combination of, (parents, academic scholarships, grants, loans, and part time jobs).
For some perspective on what $350,000 means,,, that's $17,500 per year for 20 years.
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What do they/we get for the money?

• Florida is the only athletic department in the country to finish among the Top 10 in National All-Sports rankings (Director's Cup) in each of the last 33 years.

• Florida has won the SEC All-Sports Trophy 27 times, including a sweep of the Men's, Women's and Overall title 16 times - no other league school has pulled that feat off once.

• The Gators have 241 conference championships, including 234 in the SEC, which is almost 100 more than the next conference school.

• Seventy-eight percent (78%) of the 2017 spring graduates (46 individuals) were part of a National and/or SEC championship team during their Gator careers.

• Since 1992, UF has honored 107 Academic All-Americans to rank 5th among all Division I colleges and overall UF student-athletes have picked up 136 Academic All-Americans. 5 Gators have been selected to the Capital One Academic All-American Hall of Fame, the 2nd best total in the nation.

Facilities commitment is included in the article. -- Information source -- http://floridagators.com/news/2017/...-contribution-adjustment-for-2018-season.aspx

 

[g8rbass94]

• The Gators have 241 conference championships, including 234 in the SEC, which is almost 100 more than the next conference school.

Bauce Hawg right there.

 

[fphingators]

Well we suck in Womens BBall and probably always will.

Add the Olympic medals and thats an incredible feat.

 

[MJWilliamson]

From fat Dooley;

No matter what happens the rest of the way, Florida has joined UCLA as being the only two programs to pull off the double-double. The Bruins in 2010 reached the finals of both the College World Series and the Women’s College World Series in the same season. Florida duplicated that feat this year. UCLA won in softball and lost to South Carolina in baseball that year. I think it’s important to understand how difficult it is to make the finals of either NCAA Championship even if you have a really good team. Sometimes, you need a break or a hot pitcher (nobody hotter than Alex Faedo in this postseason) or an umpire that doesn’t understand the physics of a strike zone (don’t get me started) just to get to the regionals, then through the regionals, then through the super regionals, then through the early games at the Series. To have both make it is amazing. We tend to expect nothing but the best at UF, but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t recognize what a special spring/summer this has been.

 

[sadgator]

We pretty much kick ass...plus we have this...