National championships certainly don’t hurt fund-raising opportunities.

The University of Florida, which won this year’s NCAA football national championship (and back-to-back basketball titles), announced this week it has secured a $7 million pledge from James W. “Bill” Heavener, whose name will grace the new football office complex at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Heavener is a member of the Gator Boosters board of directors and a Bull Gator, an elite level of athletics donor, and serves as co-chairman/CEO of Full Sail Real World Education, an entertainment media college in Winter Park.

The renovation project, scheduled to be completed before the 2008 season, will include a 6,815-square foot expansion of the football office area to 12,436 square feet, a new "front door" structure that rises three stories on the southwest corner of the stadium and a new Gator Room for meetings and recruiting functions, according to a UF release.