Departmentally, my opinion is they are viewed as a one trick pony (football) and that pony is pretty sick, plus they are in a much weaker & poorer conference. With us, we’ve had tremendous success in football and basketball. Furthermore, we have so many other athletic programs that are consistently successful. No, I’m not lauding Foley for prioritizing women’s softball & men’s badminton over the cash cow of football but it is nice to have other successful athletic programs ANCILLARY to King Football and Prince Basketball. Let’s be honest, how cool is it to watch the summer Olympics every 4 years from far flung corners of the world and see UF swimmers or UF track & field athletes kicking butt...so long as football is where it needs to be? It’s awesome and it brings us great exposure globally. Add in our academic (undergrad, grad & PhD) and top notch medical facilities and it’s easy to see why they are looked at they way they are. When that one thing they used to have that was relevant nationally gets put out to pasture, they have nothing else to hang their hats on. They really may become as irrelevant as Miami. Now, we just need to keep on climbing and we need to secure some more SEC and national championships in the very near future. That’s on Mullen, let’s see if he can deliver.