Chip Howard, UF's senior athletics director for internal affairs, offered a toast to O'Sullivan and his coaches during the group outing. He praised them for the job they have done not only this season, but since they arrived and changed the perception -- and reality -- of the program.

"We wanted to become relevant year in and year out,'' Howard said. "Did that mean we expected to make it to the College World Series every year? No. But we wanted to have a program that was at least in the hunt."