GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida coach Dan Mullen joked on his spring speaking tour that he knew the real secret to getting the students involved in the team's football games, showing up on time and getting rowdy in the Swamp.

Well, we say he joked. More like he just knew.

"Once spring practice starts, I’m going to try to go around to different student groups and organizations, go have lunch, go over to the fraternity houses and, more importantly, go to the sorority houses," Mullen told a crowd of fans in February in Orlando at a speaking stop.

"Listen, if I want all the guys to show up, if I get the girls to show up ... ‘Hey, all the sororities are going to the spring game...’ Well, then that answers the fraternity question."

Sure enough, Mullen is making good on his promise. On Tuesday evening, he was going around to a few sorority houses to speak to the Greeks about their involvement and what it means to the team's success.

He took group photos, flashed sorority signs and had a message for them.

"We're all in this together," Mullen said. "I want to give you a team you can be proud of. And I'm going to tell you, I've been here when we've won. And when we win, it's a lot of fun for everyone. Sound good?"

To another chapter, he had a slightly different message.

"Everybody thinks 'Hey coach, if you win a lot of football games, we'll show up and cheer the team on,'" Mullen said. "It doesn't work that way. We need y'all there to cheer us on. The students set the tempo of the crowd, so if y'all are there, jumping up and down and cheering and going crazy during the course of the game, we have an electric gameday atmosphere."

That atmosphere is something Mullen has focused heavily on bringing back to Gainesville.

It didn't take more than a few minutes at Mullen's first speaking engagement with fans for him to spit out the lofty goal he had for the immediate future: Pack the Swamp for the spring game.

Start there and then carry that buzz and atmosphere over to the entire home slate for the 2018 season.

"Every one of the fans in our stadium are going to take the students’ lead," Mullen said in Orlando. "If the students are jumping up and down, having fun, going crazy, so is everybody else. If the students don’t, they’re not. So we’ve got to do a great job of cultivating and teaching the students how, one, we need them there and, two, how we need them to act during the course of the game."

What better way than to pay them a personal visit?

Check out Mullen making a couple of his stops on Tuesday night below.

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