FSU Football: Fans react to Florida’s Jim McElwain contract extension

FSU fans were hoping Florida would keep Jim McElwain as their head coach for a while, and now their hopes have become reality.

Remember how Jim McElwain came up as a potential candidate for the Oregon job last year and we gave you three reasons why you should hope he stays there for a long time?

Well, it looks like our Florida rivals have done the ‘Noles a huge favor on the gridiron by giving Jim McElwain a SIX year contract extension!

Of course the response from FSU fans was joy and bliss as they celebrated the news via social media.

However, the same can’t be said for Florida Gator fans who are growing in frustration. We visited Florida’s247 forum to see how they were feeling:

Florida fans

"Oh boy, this is gonna go over about as well as a poopie flavored Popsicle around here…. For McElwain"

"Welp. So much for holding out hope that we’d have a new staff any time soon."

"Where’s the bonus for signing safeties? That completely undermines my current theory."

"Not unusual, Muschump got a fat raise after his best season."

"i don’t think it is as much beef with mcelwain in this instance, rather that we put ourselves in a muschamp-ish situation wherein we extended a coach who hasn’t really proven a lot. why not wait and see what happens in 2017? i mean we are talking about an extension from 2021 to 2022, so it wasn’t urgent to do, and i think everyone agrees we will learn a lot more about mcelwain in 2017 than we have up to this point. yeah you pay coaches to stay, but it could have happened next off season."

"Recruiting elite athletes would be nice"

"I have a firm no extension policy on football coaches until their team actually scores an offensive TD versus their chief rival."

"Here are the things that could change everyone’s opinion about Mac, in order of occurrence.1) Get Fields to commit2) Put a competent top 40ish offense on the field3) Beat or at least compete with FSU4) Get back to the SEC title game and compete with Bama5) Sign a top 5 class"

"Floating around at 9-10 wins is nice and beating UGA is really nice, but absent the items above, the evidence mounts that Mac is our Mark Richt which is the thesis I’ve been working off of with the guy for a long time. I’ve seen nothing to suggest otherwise."

"Oh, for fuck’s sake…"

"All the negative recruiting about Mac and Staff eventually being shit canned or leaving Florida can all go away now. This is the year Mac! Producing a Top 50 offense will solve every other problem there is. Let’s Go!"

Thoughts

My how expectations have fallen, a top 50 offense? I suppose Florida fans don’t realize Florida lost a ton of talent to the NFL Draft, and McElwain isn’t recruiting on the same level as Muschamp on the defensive side of the ball.

Next: Gator Fans Growing Frustrated with Jim McElwain

There’s no need to negative recruit Florida, all you have to do is point to the on-field results of dominating them the past half decade.

Congrats Florida and thanks for helping FSU football stay on top!