I started this thread to share great news about the University of Florida's amazing success in athletics. Something all Gators should be proud of. Yet some use the opportunity to bash and demean athletes, coaches and programs that are not football. It's shameful and disgusting to me that there are people who place one group of athletes so much above others and say they don't care about the contributions of so many hard-working GATORS. I love our Gator football program, but love all the others as well. It's that attitude that football is king and all other sports are secondary that gives the entitlement attitude to so many football players from Pop Warner to high school to college and then to the NFL. It's no wonder that most, if not all, the arrests and suspensions, which embarrass the university, come from the football program. You seldom, if ever, see athletes in the "minor" sports disrespecting themselves, their families, their temmates, their coaches and their universities. They work just as hard and many of them do so on partial scholarships, some paying their own way for the privilege of being a Gator. So to those who diss on programs other than the almighty football, I say you're narrowminded and shallow. I'm proud to be a Florida Gator and cheer on all other Florida Gators.
