Come Back to Texas, Once You Get All That You Can From Florida

Post author By Darren Heitner
Post date March 27, 2006
3 Comments on Come Back to Texas, Once You Get All That You Can From Florida

This weekend should be one for the ages!

Looking back to a post that I made on January 5th titled Come Back to Texas, I am pretty happy with my assessment that Florida and Texas are two of the premier sports schools in the country.

While Texas did not sweep the three major sports, they came pretty damn close. Making the Elite Eight in the same year that you win the College World Series and BCS Championship is nothing to be ashamed of.

But what about the pleasant surprise out of Gainesville, Florida? After I reported on January 5th that the Gators pulled in the top recruiting class in the nation in football, I still had little hope that the University of Florida would go anywhere this year in the NCAA tournament. I was wrong!

Now I find myself with tickets to both Final Four games and the Championship game in Indianapolis, Indiana, where I will root for my Gators to win their first NCAA Basketball Championship.

Expect no posts from Friday through Tuesday, but hopefully I come back from Indiana with some great pictures and great stories!

By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.

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3 replies on “Come Back to Texas, Once You Get All That You Can From Florida”

Texas is proving itself to be nearly in a class of its own, winning baseball and football national titles and threatening to win basketball this year as well.

I think that Michigan has to be considered the second best school for athletics. Along with consistent football and basketball programs, they have also excelled at men’s hockey. Schools like Ohio State and Michigan State also back up their football and basketball programs with hockey programs. Boston College puts solid squads too.

I’m sorry but did you watch the NCAA tournament? LSU shut down TX like no ones business…Aldrige was 2- for however many useless shots he took. How can you say TX is a premier sports school? They lost.

In response to Dan, you must remember that while it is great to be a strong school in hockey, not all colleges (including UF) are able to participate in the sport on the NCAA level. This is attributed to Title IX, which says that a school must have as many womens sports as mens sports. Because of that, some schools have mens ice hockey clubs and are unable to participate in true NCAA level competition.

And Chase, LSU has looked superb so far in the NCAA tournament. At the same time, a loss in the Elite 8 increases the validity of the statement that Texas is a premier sports school. Being in the Elite 8 means that you were one of the Top 8 schools in the tournament! LSU certainly ranks among the top group of sports schools as well.

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