James Frank McElwain was born on March 1,1962 and is an American football coach.
34 Facts About Jim McElwain
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Jim McElwain is the head football coach at Central Michigan University, a position he has held since 2019.
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Jim McElwain served as the head football coach at the University of Florida from 2015 to 2017, and Colorado State University from 2012 to 2014, where he was named the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year in 2014.
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Jim McElwain was the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama from 2008 to 2011.
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Jim McElwain played quarterback at Sentinel High School in Missoula where he was chosen as an all-state quarterback.
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Jim McElwain then went on to play quarterback in college at Eastern Washington from 1980 to 1983, and he earned a degree in education.
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From Eastern Washington, Jim McElwain took an offensive coordinator position at Montana State.
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Jim McElwain enjoyed a successful career with the Bobcats from 1995 to 1999, and coached the offense to the number one scoring offense in the Big Sky Conference in 1998 with 31.6 points per game.
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Jim McElwain's first coaching job in Division I-A football was at University of Louisville where he was the receivers and special teams coach from 2000 to 2002.
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Jim McElwain was then offered the assistant head coaching position at Michigan State when he followed Louisville's head coach John L Smith there.
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Jim McElwain's coaching stint in the National Football League was brief.
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In 2007, Jim McElwain accepted a job to become the offensive coordinator at California State University, Fresno.
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On February 1,2008, Jim McElwain accepted an offer from Nick Saban to be the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama.
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Jim McElwain's offense outrushed the Gators' offense 251 yards to 88 yards, 63 of those yards coming from the 2007 Heisman winner Tim Tebow.
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Jim McElwain's offense put up 32 points and held on to the ball for 39 minutes and 37 seconds, almost twice the Gators total of 20 minutes and 23 seconds.
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On December 12,2011, sources revealed that Jim McElwain had accepted the head coaching position with Colorado State.
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Jim McElwain's tenure, dubbed by the school's athletic department as "A Bold New Era", began on a high note.
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Jim McElwain became the first CSU coach to win his debut since Jerry Wampfler in 1970 and the first ever to win his debut against Colorado.
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Jim McElwain was hired as head coach of the University of Florida Gators in December 2014 by athletics director Jeremy Foley.
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Jim McElwain was named the 2015 SEC Coach of the Year in his first season as the head coach of Florida.
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Jim McElwain won a second consecutive Eastern Division title in 2016.
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Jim McElwain became the target of online ridicule in 2017 when a photo of a man who looks similar to him, naked and in a compromising position with a shark on a boat, surfaced on the internet.
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Jim McElwain denied the allegations that he was the man in the photo, who was identified as a retired New York City police officer.
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Later that day, Florida officials revealed that Jim McElwain offered "no additional details" about those threats.
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The next day, Jim McElwain met with Stricklin and other university officials.
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Ultimately, Florida and Jim McElwain mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately.
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The relationship became even chillier when Jim McElwain frequently criticized the state of the program and the administration's commitment to him.
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Jim McElwain was criticized for on-field results that came up well short of what Florida fans had come to expect.
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Jim McElwain had been hired not just to win games, but to fix an offense that had become among the weakest in the country under his predecessor, Will Muschamp.
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On February 20,2018, Jim McElwain was named the wide receivers coach for the Michigan Wolverines.
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Jim McElwain was announced as the 29th head football coach of the Central Michigan Chippewas on December 2,2018.
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Jim McElwain is married to Karen McElwain, and has two daughters, Johanna and Elizabeth, and one son, Jerrett.
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Jim McElwain was radio personality Colin Cowherd's roommate in college at Eastern Washington.
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Shortly after Jim McElwain was hired, he attended a party at the home of the athletic director that was attended by many of the program's biggest donors, among them Chuck McGuirk, the namesake of CMU's basketball arena.