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Sources at Florida tell FootballScoop that Jeremy Foley intends to formally offer Jim McElwain their head coaching position. McElwain is 22-16 in his three seasons as head coach at Colorado State, 18-8 in the past two seasons (10-2 this season).

Foley and McElwain, per sources, are in agreement that it would be best for Florida football to retain defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin and defensive backs coach Travaris Robinson at a minimum.

Foley is on his way to Colorado today. Pat Forde of Yahoo and Brett McMurphy of ESPN, along with Pat Dooley locally, have chronicled the search quite well.

We filmed the video below this morning explaining Jim McElwain’s candidacy and hit on the very idea that for this to work, Mac would need to retain some of the coaching talent (specifically mentioning DJ and T-Rob).

As more details become clear, we will keep you posted on The Scoop.

http://footballscoop.com/news/sources-florida-expects-jim-mcelwain-next-head-coach/
 
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I was worried they would hire him. I touted McElwain for our opening in 2010 on the Rivals free board. He actually fell out of favor that year on the Alabama message boards after a couple of losses, including blowing the 24-0 home lead to Auburn and Cam Newton.

Very rare for an offensive coordinator to switch seamlessly from spread looks to power sets like McElwain does.
 
Hired a guy that just lost to Air Force. Go Gata! Chip Kelly who?
 
He'll do ok there, better than Champ. But I don't think they compete for national titles with him.
 
Did a great job at col st had alot of transfers in hart and the wr there, will need a defensive coach though
 
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Tad Footeball said:
Hired a guy that just lost to Air Force. Go Gata! Chip Kelly who?
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[video=youtube;3sR0g4TCpXQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sR0g4TCpXQ[/video]

Air Force's HC served six years as an active duty Air Force officer and is a pretty good coach; Al seved as Jerry's lookout and is the worst Football coach in the country.
 
Florida has a lot of money but they are pretty cheap athletic department when it comes to HC hires they never go for big "proven" guys McElwain is a pretty uninspired hire, but he's still better than Alfredo
 
They can try to keep Robinson, but if Muschamp goes to Auburn as speculated, Robinson is following him....
 
NoVaCaneFan said:
Florida has a lot of money but they are pretty cheap athletic department when it comes to HC hires they never go for big "proven" guys McElwain is a pretty uninspired hire, but he's still better than Alfredo
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Cfb has changed man. All these schools have a ton of money now. Ole miss can pay 4M now. U can't just steal top coaches with money. UF was willin to pay 5-6 million for stoops , Kelly etc but they aren't interested.
 
It doesn't matter who other teams have; it is about who we have. If we get a real coach the others are all toast. With all the crap over the last 12 years, with had a team on the field 3 weeks ago that would have leveled FSU if we just had a decent coach on the sideline.
 
2 best coaches in UiF history: Spurrier (stole him from Duke) and Urban (stole him from Utah).

UiF has realized, and this doesn't take a genius, that the few proven elite guys are more impossible than ever to steal, because why leave what you've built if they are willing to match price?

I mean, really, who was the last ELITE college head coach to just move to a different school? Only guy I can think of that left a HIGH level job for another one while staying in college is Lane Kiffin.

Other than that, you find a guy at a low/mid level program, a hotshot coordinator or an NFL washout and roll the dice.

Finding a great coach means finding him before everyone realizes he is great. It's one big crapshoot and you are merely trying to control as many variables as possible.

We used to and still do the same thing, we just have had no ******* vision with our last few dudes.
 
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