Mike White finishes his 7-year Florida career at 142-88 (.617)/ 72-52 (.581) with 4 appearances in the NCAA tournament--including a 2nd place finish in the 2016-2017 Elite Eight. For comparison, his predecessor, Billy Donovan, finished his 19-year career at Florida with a record of 467-186 (.715)/ 200-110 (.645) and 14 NCAA tournament appearances--including 2 national championships. Good luck to Mike White as Gator Bait!
Frankly, about TIME he was "Gator Bait" rather than "Gator Coach".
It feels like we have come full circle, back to general irrelevance and mediocrity in the "headline sports programs" in the long years since I first followed (and eventually attended) UF.
Question: At what point do we take a long, close LOOK at the folks overseeing the general health and growth of these programs?
OK: I admit it at least APPEARS that things might finally be getting done "the right way" on the FOOTBALL side of things...If this turns out to be an across-the-board pattern-change, I'll be happy to let it go, look ahead to a rough but mainly upward trend in all our major sports programs--and above all, will TRY AND ENJOY THE RIDE!!!
I guess all I'm saying at this point is that although I have (like the many fans, students and alumni that comprise Gator Nation) tended to view "promising" or "pretty good" to have been the most positive adjectives likely to be applied to any of our programs--and worst of all, when it came to our Foorball program, even THAT was at best getting to be a fading hope!
Well, as always here at UF, FOOTBALL leads the way--so let's all buckle down, start again and see what follows.