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From Bortner: Florida Voted D1Baseball’s Top Baseball Program of Last 10 Years

Discussion in 'GatorGrowl's Diamond Gators' started by WESGATORS, Jan 9, 2025.

  1. Jan 9, 2025 #1
    WESGATORS

    WESGATORS Moderator VIP Member

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    Link to GATORzone article: (link)
    Link to D1baseball article: (link) -> fuller content including best teams of last 10 years, best player last 10 years, best pitcher last 10 years, best coach last 10 years

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    Celebrating 10 years of coverage after launching as a full-service college baseball site in 2015, D1Baseball unveiled its "best of the decade" on Wednesday. Included in the staff picks were votes for the best team, player, pitcher, coach and program of the last 10 years. Florida ran away with each of the latter two categories, defeating Vanderbilt as the best program of the decade by a seven-to-one tally. Aaron Fitt, Kendall Rogers and Mark Etheridge each selected O'Sullivan as the top head coach of the last 10 years while no other skipper earned more than one vote.

    Florida has reached the College World Series in nine of the last 14 postseasons, which includes six Omaha trips in the last decade alone (no postseason in 2020). No other program in the country is close to those numbers.

    In the last 10 years, the Gators have hosted eight Regionals while claiming one National Championship (2017), one National Runner-Up finish (2023) and four appearances in the CWS final four. Under O'Sullivan, Florida has evolved into the premier program in all of college baseball.

    Best Program of the Last 10 Years
    Aaron Fitt: Florida
    Kendall Rogers: Florida
    Patrick Ebert: Florida
    Mike Rooney: Florida
    Mark Etheridge: Florida
    Eric Sorenson: Vanderbilt
    Shotgun Spratling: Florida
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    Go GATORS!
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  2. Jan 9, 2025 #2
    iowagator

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    It is good that they agree with us!!!!
     
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  3. Jan 9, 2025 #3
    Gatorgal04

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    Smart guys!
     
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  4. Jan 10, 2025 #4
    RattlerGator

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    Wow. Didn't realize we had reached that level.
     
  5. Jan 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM #5
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    Call me and we can hit a couple games this year!
     
  6. Jan 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM #6
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    Given some posts here every season, clearly, you have a lot of company. I'm one of many who wish we would win the CWS every year, but unlike some others, I realize that won't happen. There are other programs- most SEC- including LSU, Vandy, SC- that have won more championships than Gators, but only Gators have been so consistent during Sully's tenure. A frontrunner is a person who chooses a team that is a top winner and expects that team to always win or be harshly criticized. As a blind (rhetorically speaking) optimist, I do my best to ignore the posts, mainly gripes, from frontrunners, mainly because my team does so well and makes me so happy.
     
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  7. Jan 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM #7
    WESGATORS

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    Hey, don't be so negative.

    Go GATORS!
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