Are you rooting for FGCU?

[Oldsmobull]

The Alico Company donated the land for the FGCU campus.  JD Alexander, who pushed for the creation of Florida Folly Univ, is CEO I think of Alico today.  Ben Hill Griffin started Alico.  UF's football stadium is named after BHG?  http://alicoland.com/history.html

 

Florida Folly is having a really tough time getting off the ground since independence/split from USF last year and since JD isn't in office with the state's checkbook in his back pocket anymore.   Fl legislative leaders are maybe getting ready to turn off state funding faucet for Florida Folly and the school could end up back in the USF fold.

[Matt]

JD Alexander is Ben Hill Griffin's grandson.  and yes- it is the same family that donated the land to FGCU and the same family who's name is on UF's footballs stadium because they donated a lot of land and money to them as well.

 

However, I think you all are getting a little bit confused.  FGCU was always set up to be it's own University.  USF at one time did have a satellite campus in Ft Myers (notice it is spelled Ft Myers and not Ft Meyers) but the USF campus was affiliated with Edison Community College and not FGCU.  When FGCU opened in 1997 there was no need for a satellite USF campus down there because now there was the 10th State University.  

 

The FGCU/USF relationship is drastically different from the Florida Poly/USF relationship.

 

http://www.fgcu.edu/info/HistoricalPerspective.asp

[charsibb]

JD Alexander is Ben Hill Griffin's grandson.  and yes- it is the same family that donated the land to FGCU and the same family who's name is on UF's footballs stadium because they donated a lot of land and money to them as well.

 

However, I think you all are getting a little bit confused.  FGCU was always set up to be it's own University.  USF at one time did have a satellite campus in Ft Myers (notice it is spelled Ft Myers and not Ft Meyers) but the USF campus was affiliated with Edison Community College and not FGCU.  When FGCU opened in 1997 there was no need for a satellite USF campus down there because now there was the 10th State University.  

 

The FGCU/USF relationship is drastically different from the Florida Poly/USF relationship.

 

http://www.fgcu.edu/info/HistoricalPerspective.asp

 

Interesting.

 

NO mention whatsoever of "myer" in the USF history page

http://www.usf.edu/about-usf/history.aspx

 

(for that matter, "lakeland" shows up twice, but "poly" does not, so who knows?)

[Paisa el Toro]

JD Alexander is Ben Hill Griffin's grandson.  and yes- it is the same family that donated the land to FGCU and the same family who's name is on UF's footballs stadium because they donated a lot of land and money to them as well.

 

However, I think you all are getting a little bit confused.  FGCU was always set up to be it's own University.  USF at one time did have a satellite campus in Ft Myers (notice it is spelled Ft Myers and not Ft Meyers) but the USF campus was affiliated with Edison Community College and not FGCU.  When FGCU opened in 1997 there was no need for a satellite USF campus down there because now there was the 10th State University.  

 

The FGCU/USF relationship is drastically different from the Florida Poly/USF relationship.

 

http://www.fgcu.edu/info/HistoricalPerspective.asp

 

 

Ahhh, very informative indeed. Polytechnic will go to UF before it goes back to USF; the Florida legislature and Machen will see to that. (just my hunch though).