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Trivia note about Jim McElwain: He and Colin Cowherd were roommates at Eastern Washington.

 

So much for the Florida coaching douchebag streak ending.

 

He's been a bit douchey, or at least played the chip-on-the-shoulder card, at times at CSU this year. He made a big deal over the Denver mayor mispronouncing his name after the CSU-Colorado game.

 

Well, he learned from the best and he'll get even worse when he gets to Florida.

 

I'm not sure that's really accurate. Muschamp was also a Saban guy, and I think everyone agrees he's pretty congenial.

I never got to deal much with McElwain when he was at Alabama because Saban doesn't let his assistants talk to the media (except once before the season and at the pre-bowl presser), but he seemed like a great guy by all accounts. Was funny and self-effacing in his limited public media engagements. Sort of a younger Mike Price, without the drinking and the hookers.

Maybe he'll button it down more as an SEC head coach, but that he's a Saban-Belichick-Parcells-esque media antagonist is definitely not the case.

 

I will confess I've always liked FootballScoop . com during this time of year. The mobile site is awful but I like reading the desktop -- you'll see a nugget on Florida in talks with someone and then, in the next paragraph, some D-II school trying to schedule a non-con game and asking for any possible suitors, complete with contact info.

 

UAB deep sixing the program is going to cause a schedule stampede -- 11 schools looking for games.

 

I had actually heard that Meyer was well-liked by the media when he was at Utah. The writer who told me that wasn't a beat writer there, so maybe that was just his perception. I called Meyer for an Alex Smith story during his first year at Florida, and he was very good to deal with.

But the horror stories with him seem worse than Saban.

 

I liked dealing with Meyer during his early time at Florida. Obviously the whole Jeremy Fowler thing really brought a level of douchebaggery from him that's rarely publicly seen in coaches but by that point I think he had a ton of issues and didn't handle anything well.

Liked McElwain too, saw him on a few sidelines at big high school games in Florida. Came across real nice and funny.

Liked Muschamp too although he pounded his chest a little too much after victories and then would play the poor victim after a little slump. The whole "sometimes it's hard to tell my little girl why people want daddy fired" almost made me vomit.

 

Spurrier gets a bit of a pass because he's entertaining, but he's worse than Saban and Meyer combined.

I don't know of instances where Saban or Meyer tried to get a writer fired. Spurrier did that multiple times at Florida and has done it at South Carolina as well.

 

A not insignificant component to the Gators' reign of douchbaggery among its football coaches is the fact that Florida is home to the nation's least helpful and most media-unfriendly SID department.

 

Worst in the country by far. Not because they're incompetent, but because they go out of their way to lie and mislead the writers. If the AD thinks the SID is too friendly with the media, that SID will be out of work soon.