Jim McElwain

And, you know, South Carolina played desperately.

And Florida played like they did when they sucked under Jim McElwain.

I think that what South Carolina needs to do is – Put Shane Beamer into a sleep simulation where he thinks he takes two bad losses and his back's against the wall before every single game.

They'll go 12-0.

I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.

I think practice was a lot more intense in the, the McElwain era, and Jim McElwain, for as beloved as he is, as good as he was to me individually, and he really was, he could be a pretty intense dude himself.

Like, he, he was prone to, you know, MF'ing a few guys himself.

I just kinda think that's more common, uh, than, than people assume, especially behind closed doors.

Don't know if anybody cares about these stats, uh, but these are the weird things I think of when I'm putting the rundown together for the show.

Uh, CSU stat of the day, the Rams are on pace to throw 33 and a half touchdowns this year as a team.

The team record is 34, so again, as ugly as it has been on the defensive side, as frustrating as the results have been at times this year, offensively, they're doing things that we haven't seen really since the, the peak of the McElwain era, uh, or the Bobo era, depending on what stat you're looking at.

So on pace to throw 33 and a half touchdowns despite not having your starting quarterback these past couple games.

And, and I'm making all that money that Florida's still have, having to pay me.

Kind of like when Jim McElwain was at Central Michigan, right? He went to Florida, got fired, made all that money.

Dan Mullen.

And Florida is a job that you think, like, that's a no-brainer.

Florida

... l- look, Dan Mullen... [laughs] You just gave me three of them.

Dan Mullen, Jim McElwain, and Billy Napier all went to Florida, all had some success, all got fired and collect gigantic walkaway money, and one went to Central Michigan, right? They were in a MAC championship game, played in the New Mexico Bowl.

One is at James Madison, is undefeated.

But that ended up being a 4-8 year.

And despite everybody feeling hopeful for the future under Jim McElwain, and I'm still very much a believer in Jim Mora being the guy to turn this thing around, it does feel like the path to the postseason became...

A lot more daunting at this point.

You're going to have to be a good road team.

Obviously, they've had so many things go their way.

And as Jim McElwain used to say, they've been getting their bellies rubbed.

That's right.

And people telling them how great they are and all these national – interviews and media requests and things like that.