T/F can be all over the place. A&M men, 4th at SEC, National Champs. Auburn, 8th SEC, almost National Champs if they have a better 100m. OU, 10th SEC, 6th Nationally. That being said, like any sport teams vary year to year. Florida is a good example. They have the best staff right now and were 3x NC coming into this week, 12th SEC, 8th Nationally, never a player for the NC this year (but top 10 in a really down year).
Flo’s teams seem to be a little more inconsistent (results vary more) than most of the top programs. He runs it like a business and it is a tough “produce, internally rank every week” system. He has had better results on the women’s side than the men’s.
I have mentioned before on these forums that Lil’ Nigel plays D1 football and runs track (just finished redshirting his freshman year). His training group has had a handful of athletes recruited by UT over the past 5 years. All of them did not like their visits or get a good feeling from Coach Flo (and this is during competing for and winning national championships). I don’t know what that means other than that is what happened. Now, Pat Henry at A&M is track coaching royalty, but he is certainly no walk in the park either, and I can confirm that first hand. But, he has a lot of skins on the wall, including yet another NC last night. Dude recruits.
Flo, is not everyone’s cup of tea (no one is, including Henry) and he seems to find enough of his athletes to compete, but his program seems to be just on the outside of the “Top Programs.”