Talk:Florida Gators
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[edit] Simultaneous titles
"This is the first time in NCAA history that a school's football and basketball teams have held national titles at the same time."
I won't change this because I sense a good natured Gator Fan will quickly put it back, so I will post it here. Simply, this sentence is factually inaccurate. The basketball championship and the football championship happened under both different calendar years and different scholastic years.
Q. Who is the current (March 2007) champion of Div I basketball? A. Florida
Q. Who is the current (March 2007) champion of Div I football? A. Florida
Case closed.
71.98.233.55 02:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Popularity vs alphabetical
I wonder which is a better format for presenting the men's and women's sports. There is no consensus that I know of in other collegiate athletics articles. Is it better to list by popularity (as the sports are listed now) or alphabetically? WTStoffs 05:23, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Well, on this university article's talk page, it was presented that ordering items within a topic by any other criteria than alphabetical is against Wikipedia policy and a violation of one of the Five Pillars of Wikipedia:
I'm just trying to put the relatively prominet category first. All other universities do so. You're overreacting. Edipedia 21:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Neutrality is one of the five pillars of Wikipedia, and your determination of what is "relatively prominent" is not neutral. The fact that other articles do it differently does not make it correct or within policy. Since this was only your second edit in the project [4] (and I'm not trying to bite), perhaps it is worth considering that it was in error. --MichaelZimmer (talk) 21:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
- So that ought to answer your question for you. -- CollegeSportsGuy 13:44, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Milestones for Men's Basketball
The first semi-final appearance (NCAA Final Four) is mentioned and of course winning the NCAA Championship is mentioned but in between those two milestones was the first appearance to the NCAA finals (with Donovan and losing to Michigan State). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.88.165.35 (talk • contribs).
[edit] Where did the list of traditional rivals come from?
Miami hasn't really been a rival since the 1980s--IIRC, we don't play them in men's basketball, and if Florida doesn't play someone in football or men's basketball, I don't see how they can be a rival. South Carolina seems like rather a stretch, even with Spurrier there, as does Kentucky--it's true that Florida and Kentucky have typically been competing for the top spot in the SEC in men's basketball in recent years, but has the Kentucky game really becomes as big a deal on-campus as the Tennessee game, or even a big non-conference game? Conversely, there's no mention of Auburn, whose rivalry with Florida was the second-oldest football rivalry in the south until it was discontinued in 2002. Even LSU, who might not be too big a deal to Florida but who absolutely hate us, might warrant a mention. Binabik80 02:20, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- I think it is okay to mention Miami and Auburn as prominent formal rivals, however I think that the only schools that currently qualify as Florida's rivals are Tennessee, Florida State and Georgia. KyuzoGator 19:20, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Linkage
Since the cleanup of external links, those wishing for shameless self-promotion have added their respective sites back up. Does this article really need to be a links directory? I suggest we leave the official website and no more. Machawk1 21:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
