Poll: Ties to UF

ProcrastiGATOR · Sep 21, 2018

BS in Mechanical Engeering in '08 (The hay-day of National Championships) was GM at a famous midtown bar for 15 years. Always love going back.

Mgnihilo · Sep 21, 2018

My freshman year (89-90) was Emmitt's last and sophomore year was Spurrier's first. Met Emmitt while he was running at the O'Dome after he left. He came back to Gainesville to work out while holding out his rookie year.

Good years to start my Gator life. Graduated with a BM in Music Ed.

Tilly · Sep 21, 2018

Business ties to UF in the past. Grew up going to games. Was accepted, but chose a different path after HS. But trust me, I am all Gator.

Durfish · Sep 21, 2018

Spent a summer at UF, then went to Stetson for 3.5 years, then joined the Navy. Grew up in DeLand before Stetson re-introduced football, so stuck with UF as a fan.

Completed a BS in Workforce Education and Development from SIU-Carbondale while in the Navy.

Gator by the Sea · Sep 21, 2018

SeabeeGator said:
07 BS Ag/Bio Engineering. Loved going to school there, wasn’t a huge fan of the city. Went back last year for a bball game for the first time in a 7 or 8 years - amazing how much that place has changed!

You think it's changed since '07? How about the changes since '91? Archer Road/Butler Plaza area and everything west of 75 is unrecognizable to me when I go back. Hard to believe hardly anything existed out that way once upon a time.

G8trwood · Sep 21, 2018

Me, wife, step dad, father inlaw, 2xbrother in laws and one brother :)

sminings · Sep 21, 2018

Graduated High School in Germany, Zweibruecken American High School and attended the University of Maryland in Munich for one year before transferring to UF and left in '87 with a BSBA.

B52G8rAC · Sep 21, 2018

Ocalaman said:
Class of '73; both parents worked at and retired from UF, wife born in Gainesville, her mother raised in Gainesville and youngest brother went to UF & UF Medical School; our daughter graduated from UF in 2002 and works there now, as does her husband. Anyone have a deeper pedigree than this?

Class of '73. First in my family to go to college. My mom's brother came home from the war and went to Florida (Ag major) and my oldest cousin (mom's age) got his BS and MS in Mech Eng there. My uncle was a Letterman Club member. The first toy he brought me was a Florida football; I was 6 days old. My younger brother marched in the band and graduated 12 years after me. His son graduated with a BS in ME and ASE last year. OBTW-there is an endowed chair at the Ag College (I know they changed the name) in my uncles name-my inheritance is in Gville:).

stephenPE · Sep 21, 2018

Gator by the Sea said:
You think it's changed since '07? How about the changes since '91? Archer Road/Butler Plaza area and everything west of 75 is unrecognizable to me when I go back. Hard to believe hardly anything existed out that way once upon a time.

How about since 65. The interstate runs out there now. Gville shopping center was where you went. (still no Gville Mall)
No more Humpty Dumpty Restaurant (Krispy Kreme there now). No alligator cage by the Century Tower. No air field west of 34th st, Now its the old Butler Plaza.

SeabeeGator · Sep 22, 2018

Gator by the Sea said:
You think it's changed since '07? How about the changes since '91? Archer Road/Butler Plaza area and everything west of 75 is unrecognizable to me when I go back. Hard to believe hardly anything existed out that way once upon a time.

I’m sure it has but I don’t really have that as a point of reference... That new shopping area west of 75 is crazy to me.

Blacklabgator · Sep 22, 2018

SeabeeGator said:
I’m sure it has but I don’t really have that as a point of reference... That new shopping area west of 75 is crazy to me.

I lived in windmeadows mobile home park while going to UF and get lost now when I go over there.

G8trwood · Sep 22, 2018

The Gator Nation connections are unreal. A few years back, we figured out that my best friend’s dad and my father in-law worked together while going to UF in the 50’s

BNAG8R · Sep 22, 2018

SeabeeGator said:
I’m sure it has but I don’t really have that as a point of reference... That new shopping area west of 75 is crazy to me.

Archer Road/Butler Plaza area is unrecognizable just in the past 3 years! Drury Inn hotel just popped up out of nowhere, and there’s a huge Aloft hotel behind the Hilton on 34th, and a huge apartment complex.

SeabeeGator · Sep 22, 2018

BNAG8R said:
Archer Road/Butler Plaza area is unrecognizable just in the past 3 years! Drury Inn hotel just popped up out of nowhere, and there’s a huge Aloft hotel behind the Hilton on 34th, and a huge apartment complex.

We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express (also new) on 13th while I was there. Had to drive by the medical area to get there... ho...li...sheet... That whole Shands complex has exploded. And that pedestrian bridge is pretty cool.

GR8 2B · Sep 22, 2018

An uncle attended UF after World War II, got his PhD in agriculture, and taught there for a couple years. My mother, his younger sister, attended for two years in the '50's. I arrived at UF in August, 1978. I was blown away from day one. It really is great to be a Florida Gator!

Gatormac2112 · Sep 22, 2018

My Dad went to UF, I went into the Army because I didn’t try in high school. Life choices have consequences.

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Did you attend UF?

Yes, I have a 4-year or post-graduate degree from UF

Yes, I took some classes but I did not graduate

No, never attended the university

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