Years after writing The Last Amateurs, about a season on the brink in the Patriot League, author John Feinstein's place as one of the country's preeminent sports writers has already been firmly established.

Even so, he couldn't have been aware of the conversation I had the other night with a friend about that same book.

That same friend who, on his way to Gainesville, Florida to watch the Gators take on South Florida in baseball, would send me photos of his pregame tour of our alma mater.

Taking pictures of The Swamp and the other Gator landmarks in our own Shangri-La, those electronic submissions invoked a deep sense of envy ...

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