Bastards aren’t even putting it on Cook Field!! 
Meanwhile, full tuition for all!
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And if the State of Florida doesn’t come up with the 1.45B the Gators want, the Gators will move their team to Hammond, Indiana!!
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This project may be placed on hold. A professor, who teaches ‘Sex Aboard 16th Century Spanish Galleons’, is protesting the site is near a foot print he recently discovered of Juan Ponce de Leon in the sand.
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That’s just outstanding lol. Bravo.
Planning a football stadium renovation project with a budget that’s more than half of the university’s current endowment is a telling statement regarding institutional priorities.
How has UF rose so much in rankings the last 25 years? Is it solely a matter of Florida demographics allowing them to game an extremely low acceptance rate? Because I really don’t see them as a public university powerhouse in the other metrics.
Call me crazy but I’m starting to think school leaders at Florida care more about football than the state of the university an academic institution…
Wagstaff: (Cracking walnuts with the telephone.) And I say to you gentlemen, this college is a failure. The trouble is, we’re neglecting football for education.
Both professors: Exactly. The professor is right.
Wagstaff: Oh, I’m right am I? Well, I’m not right. I’m wrong. I just said that to test you. Now I know where I’m at. I’m dealing with a couple of snakes. What I meant to say was that there’s too much football and not enough education.
Both professors: That’s what I think.
Wagstaff: Oh, you do, do you? Well you’re wrong again! If there was a snake here, I’d apologize. Where would this college be without football? Have we got a stadium?
Professor One: Yes.
Wagstaff: Have we got a college?
Professor One: Yes.
Wagstaff: Well, we can’t support both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
Both professors: But professor! Where will the students sleep?
Wagstaff: Where they always sleep. In the classroom.
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I think that’s occurring in many more places than Florida. Football is the current opium for the masses, after all.
I think their two big drivers on admissions selectivity have been population growth and the Florida Bright Futures program. The state has a pretty good automatic merit program for in-state kids that has incentivized more top students to stay closer to home, and UF has always been a little more prestigious in most program areas than FSU. It’s also a flagship land grant with a lot of research funding, although I suspect they’re facing the same pressures everyone else is with the feds pulling back a lot of that support.
State flagship institutions across the country have been improving their selectivity for 3 decades. Hell, even Ohio A&M looks like an institution of higher learning now.
Apologize if wrong, but wasn’t it due to Urban Meyer and cheating?
He threatened to send Hernandez and the Poincey twins over to USNWR headquarters if Florida’s ranking didn’t drastically improve.
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