Florida Gulf Coast!

I’m going to go ahead and admit that I had actually heard of Florida Gulf Coast University before this Cinderella story regarding their men’s basketball program. Amongst the jokes of  “They’re like the University of Phoenix, all their classes are online!”, or my personal favorite, that Dwight Howard left the Lakers and enrolled at FGCU for a chance to win a real title, I knew that it was a legitimate NCAA institution. As a result of this run, exposure for the University has blown up tremendously, with their websites receiving record number views. Recently on twitter, a parody account for their men’s basketball program tweeted about an upcoming match up with the Florida Gators, making a clever pun out of the Gator mascot name. A month ago, nobody would have cared. But thanks to the madness that is March, suddenly they are the headlines of newspapers across the globe. Success really can blow up in your face.  

By Mike Brosseau

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/florida-gulf-coast-discovering-headaches-come-spotlight-130025887--ncaab.html