Kevin O'Sullivan's Gators advanced to Omaha six out of nine times from 2015-2024.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. | Florida received six of seven votes from the D1Baseball staff as college baseball's best program of the last 10 years while Head Coach Kevin O'Sullivan paced all skippers with three votes as the sport's top coach of the decade.
Celebrating 10 years of coverage after launching as a full-service college baseball site in 2015, D1Baseball unveiled its "best of the decade" on Wednesday. Included in the staff picks were votes for the best team, player, pitcher, coach, and program of the last 10 years. Florida ran away with the latter two categories, defeating Vanderbilt as the best program of the decade by a seven-to-one tally. Aaron Fitt, Kendall Rogers, and Mark Etheridge each selected O'Sullivan as the top head coach of the last 10 years, while no other skipper earned more than one vote.
Florida has reached the College World Series in nine of the last 14 postseasons, which includes six Omaha trips in the last decade alone (no postseason in 2020). No other program in the country is close to those numbers.
In the last 10 years, the Gators have hosted eight Regionals while claiming one National Championship (2017), one National Runner-Up finish (2023), and four appearances in the CWS final four. Under O'Sullivan, Florida has evolved into the premier program in all of college baseball.
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-- By Sarah Darden
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