UF vs. UCF: A Battle in Pictures @ Omni Prime


Other UF vs UCF Pages	Let's compare some pictures of the UF campus and the UCF campus... (Most images are thumbnails, click on them to view the full image)		UCF Office of Admissions
UF Office of Admissions: Criser Hall	Admissions Buildings UF's admission's building is large with an unique design and named after one of UF's administrators. UCF's admission's building looks like a bureaucrat's office.		UCF Office of Admissions


UF Marston Science Library (right) and Computer Science & Engineering Building (left)	Libraries UF has many libraries, UCF has only one. UF's libraries have over three times the volumes that UCF's library has so you'll probably find what you are looking for (Exact ratio is 3.6 million to 1.4 million). UF's library system recently surpassed four million books. In commemoration, UF's library system is getting a book from the 1600's. There are only 6 originals left today. it is called Utopia Propitia by Maria Cunitz. At UF, we actually have names for our buildings, e.g: Marston Science Library.		UCF Library: "The Library"


One of UF's smaller engineering buildings: The Nuclear Science and Engineering building. Most of it is underground b/c of the nuclear reactor	So UCF doesn't have that many buildings named after people, so what? What about the number of buildings?		UCF Colleges of Engineering and Business Administration (who on Earth would combine such huge departments?)
	UF has a 2,000-acre campus and more than 900 permanent buildings UCF has a 1,415-acre campus and only 102 permanent buildings. Example: Engineering Buildings So UCF doesn't have that many buildings named after people, so what? What about the number of buildings? Let's take engineering for an example. UCF has 2 engineering Buildings. They look nice. UF has about 20 engineering buildings, a few are the size of UCF's engineering buildings. All are built tough to handle 150 years of classes, labs, and research.


	But what about Football???
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (The Swamp) UF Wins the National Championship the same year they win the SEC 4-Peat Tremaine McCollum with an awesome catch Albert the Alligator The Swamp Front Entrance	UCF Football in the Citrus Bowl. ---> Look at the number of people in the stands at the end of a game!! UF has no problem filling a stadium that is designed for 88,000 people up to 90,000 (left). UCF can't even fill their own stadium (right), which isn't even on their campus! I have no clue why the taxpayers and private organizations are making UCF a stadium on their own campus, they are never going to fill it, it is just a waste of money. UCF has commercials trying to get people to come to their games. What is the result of this? Check out that picture to the right.... empty seats. Even with commercials filled with UCF propaganda they can't sell out a game. UF football does not need to be advertised. It speaks for itself. UF's season tickets cannot be casually bought, they are inherited Speaking of football, the team UF plays as a warm up team, Ohio is the final team UCF plays. The last game is usually against your most difficult and despised opponent, e.g.: UF vs. FSU. What's with Ohio? UF beat Ohio 34-6. This chart has hard core data on why UF is one of the best teams in the nation. Oh, and the #1 reason UF is better than UCF in athletics is when UF played UCF in football in 2006. UF beat UCF 42-0.		UCF in the Citrus Bowl The Citrus Bowl UCF Game against Tulane Atari Bigby with the "Big Stick" Award Knightro and his horse The Citrus Bowl Home of the UCF Knights Capacity: 70,000 Has yet to be sold out for UCF events.
	Talent in Football On the left, you see UF WR/CB Tremaine McCollum catching a pass while staying in bounds. Click the image, it's really impressive. Oh the right, you see UCF SS Atari Bigby receiving the UCF "Big Stick" Award for a hit he delivered in the Arizona State game. Although UCF lost that game 13-46, they still have time to award "big sticks". When UF loses a game, the players are not praised, the coaches get medieval on them. Have you ever seen Spurrier when someone screws up? Watch him closely on replays of him coaching during the mid-nineties. He will stand on the sidelines and cover his mouth, mumbling with the player listening to him, well, either that or yelling at the top of his lungs. Spurrier gets into the game, he plays to win.
	It's Knightro! And he is doing something to his horse! (look at the upper left hand corner of the stands, more empty seats...) Speaking of mascots, UF's mascot is an alligator. Alligators are found only in a few parts of the world, and the state of Florida has them, thus an alligator would be a good mascot for a Florida school. FSU's mascot is a Seminole. Although the real Chief Osceola never rode a horse like FSU has him do every game along with many other historical inaccuracies, the tribe of Seminoles is something special to the state, thus would make a good mascot. The University of Miami's mascot is a hurricane, something that plaques the state of Florida every few years, and thus would make a good mascot. UCF's mascot is a golden Knight. Ok, where did the knight come from??? Knights are from medieval Europe, not the state of Florida. Why is this knight golden? What the heck does a knight have to do with the State of Florida??? Florida's other schools (that are much better than UCF, I'm not considering USF, UWF etc.) have mascots relating to the state, why doesn't UCF? UF: Better School, better football, better mascot.... what else?


UF Harn Museum of Art UF Museum of Natural History	Museums: UF has 3 full sized museums (art, research, and natural history). UCF sort of has one. It is inside another building, their Arts building (until I find that building, the Liberal Arts building will be here). UF's history museum is the number one museum in the state for Florida's past. UF also has three smaller ones with similar size to UCF's one gallery. This comparison is even worse than the UCF's strength in football. UCF don't have athletics going for them, they don't have academics, their students can't even go to a museum! Granted Gainesville is a very boring place, but it seems as if compared to UCF, UF is Las Vegas.		UCF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


UF McKnight Brain Institute UF Health Science Center, North Entrance	Medical Buildings: UF beats all of the state's other public schools when it comes to medical. A brain institute is definitely a sign of a good medical school. In addition, UF has an entire hospital (Shands Hospital) on campus (See picture: Health Science Center). UF's medical program "is the most comprehensive of its kind in the world, comprising 300 faculty members from 10 colleges and 51 departments campus-wide" (Source). UCF has an infirmary, I hope, but I cannot find a picture of it. UCF is said to have a cancer institute, called Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Institute, but I cannot find a picture of it on UCF's site.		UCF: No Picture Available. No medical program exists


UF Levin College of Law	Law Facilities: UF has the best law college in the state, UF's law students beat all the others in the state in their BAR scores. On a side note, UF's law college looks cool too. heh heh. UCF does not have a law program. It's a wonder they get any funding with so many programs lacking or ceasing to exist.		UCF: No Picture Available. No law program exists


	What about the buildings that first year students come in contact the most with? Let's compare dorms.
UF's Lakeside Complex UF's Lakeside Complex Floor plan UF's Beaty Towers	Dorms: Look closely at these two dorms (UF's Lakeside vs. UCF's Lake Claire). They are the exact same thing except for the front door. UCF copied UF's dorm designs for their own benefit. UCF could of at least changed the name to something that does not have to do with "lakes". I currently live in the prototype dorm (Keys); the one that led to the design of the two dorms you see here. Some of UF's dorms that were built in the early 20^th century have been designated by the state as historic landmarks. UCF's dorms will never accomplish that, even in 100 years (Unless you believe that every building that does not get torn down will eventually be a landmark, also consider the recognition that UF's buildings will get in 100 years). Also, UF's dorms are named after people at UF; important people. UCF's dorms are named after counties that surround Orlando / Orange County. Let's Compare the names:		UCF's Lake Claire Apartments UCF's Lake Claire Floor plan UCF's Academic Village (isn't that the best name ever?)
	UF Dorm Names	UCF Dorm Names
	Broward Hall Rawlings Hall Mallory Hall Reid Hall Yulee Hall Jennings Hall Beaty Towers Murphree Hall Thomas Hall Buckman Hall Sledd Hall Fletcher Hall Graham Hall Simpson Hall Trusler Hall Tolbert Hall Riker Hall Weaver Hall East Hall North Hall Springs Complex aka: Hall '95 Hume Honors Residential Complex Lakeside Complex aka: Hall 2000 Keys Complex aka: Apartment Residential Facility (ARF)	Academic Village Lake Claire Apartments Lake Hall Volusia Hall Osceola Hall Polk Hall Brevard Hall Orange Hall Citrus Hall aka: 'Our dorm is named after a type of fruit' Hall Seminole Hall Flagler Hall aka: Fag Hall (as it says on the sign outside the hall) Sumter Hall
	Doesn't naming your dorms after surrounding counties make your university seem like it's catering only to the surrounding communities, and not the world like UF?



UF's Century Tower UF's statue of President Murphree	Monuments UF has several monuments on campus. On the left you see UF's Century Tower. It was built on UF's 100th Anniversary in 1953. It honors the UF students who were killed in World War I and World War II. Florida Field is dedicated to UF's students who died in World War I (it was made before World Was II). The other picture was one of UF's greatest Presidents. President Murphree (President from 1909-1928) organized the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Law, Engineering, and established the Graduate School. He prided himself on knowing every student by name (In 1917 there were 800 students at UF). UCF does not have any monuments on campus, however they do have a few plaques. I also doubt that at any time, their president knew all of UCF's students by name. UF former President Albert A. Murphree Think I'm right? Think I'm out of my mind? Post your opinions at the Omni Prime Forum.		UCF: No Pictures Available. No monuments exist.