The new Alligator Army starts Monday
by mlmintampa on Apr 9, 2011 6:19 PM EDT
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PrintFour years ago, two friends and I dragged our girlfriends to the Archer Road Moe's to discuss making a sports blog. That became the extinct The Sporting Orange and in August of 2007, Alligator Army. Since that time, two of those girls have gone away and all of us have jobs that take up far too much of our time than we would like.
Starting Monday, SBNation's Andy Hutchins will take over Alligator Army. Like me, he is a real Gator, so Alligator Army will be in good hands. Andy will build Alligator Army into a site that can matchup with the other outstanding SBNation blogs, especially DawgSports and RockyTopTalk.
There were several times that I thought about not doing Alligator Army. What stopped me each time was that I did not know who would take it over and that I love my school so very much. With Andy and the writers that he will bring on, Alligator Army will be well positioned to be successful. And with each day, I love my school more. Everything I have done in my career I owe to Florida.
If there is anything I can leave you with it is that you love and support the University of Florida as much as you love the Florida Gators. Our sports teams are crucial for the strength of the school, but we must keep progressing and excelling as a University. Bernie Machen deserves a lot of criticism for his treatment of liberal arts, agriculture and tuition increases, but he knows that the only way to save UF is to become a dominant research school. UF can't hope on the state legislature or Bull Gators who would never get into UF now. (Hell, I might not get into UF now and I graduated in 2006.) You should keep ripping on him for tuition increases that could price out students, but also understand that we are gone from the days that UF was the favored school of the state. Last year we saw Shands funding killed by Gov. Charlie Crist for political revenge and who knows what Gov. Rick Scott has up his sleeve.
But the power of the University of Florida lies in you. Sign up for the Gators for Higher Education and the UF Alumni Association, both of which are available to those who are not UF students or alumni. If you think that Florida should have top-25 teams in football and basketball, I hope you would think that we should be a top-25 school too.
As always, thanks for reading.
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Thank you for all of your time and effort
Hope to see you stay around and comment and such. Also its great to hear we are in good hands with Andy !
~Best of luck to you mlmintampa
I write for SB Nation, mostly.
But trust me when I say that you WILL see some of the names from down here moving up there, too.
Read these things I wrote: SB Nation Archive
by Andy Hutchins on Apr 9, 2011 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds pretty political
but I guess that is fitting, as this is as much a political blog as it is a Florida Gators blog. The second half of the above post being a prime example.
Best of luck.
never questioned anyone's devotion to the school
just though that the successor might be someone who has actually posted on this site…
Just because you write here does not make you qualified to run the blog
A blog on SB Nation is not just a blog by any person on the street and is supposed to be of a higher quality. Someone who is a known writer and knows how to run a blog is exactly who should be taking over.
A blog on SB Nation is not just a blog by any person on the street and is supposed to be of a higher quality.
lol, good story.
Any one can be a writer on SBnation, this isn’t the St. Pete Times Sports section. But this Andy guy is probably over qualified for SBnation honestly.
"When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."-Nick Naylor
Thank you!
Thank you for everything you have done for the blog, mlmintampa! I may have just started to comment, but I always made sure to come back everyday and read your articles! I hope to see you around the blog in the future in some capacity!
Welcome, Andy! I know you’ll do a great job, and I can’t wait to hear your insight and read your articles on those Gators that we all love so very much!
Godspeed, and Go Gators!
MileHighReport.com member since 02/06/07, promoted to "Position Coach" (i.e. new staff writer) on 02/16/10!
Without getting to personal.
Tuition increases suck, but I assure you I come from the bottom 5% of “expected familial contribution” that UF had in ‘04. I really cannot hate, especially when Bright Futures is such a savior. (That being said, I’d likely not make it into UF right now even with my ACT).
Off my pedestal, thanks mlm for breaking away from real life shit to give us something to kill time at work/school with. Also, Andy, I still hitch my small wagon to FlaGators for contibutory work.
Thanks again mlm. Good luck big guy.
I'm looking forward to seeing the new Alligator Army
I would love for this place to become bigger and be one of the top college blogs on SB Nation. It sucks when you see all of these writers for Bama’s blog and other SEC teams and they are putting up a bunch of stories a day and we are doing maybe once a week. I’m excited to see where we go and hopefully be as big as Gator Nation truly is.
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