📡 Former UF head coach Jim McElwain has emerged as a strong candidate to join Michigan's staff:

[RTB X Bot]

Jim McElwain has emerged as a strong candidate to join Jim Harbaugh’s staff at Michigan working with receivers, multiple sources told SI. It’s the position Dan Enos held briefly before taking a job at Alabama. One of the candidates for the job, Toledo offensive coordinator Brian Wright pulled out of consideration, according to a source.

The 55-year-old former Florida head coach interviewed for the Wolverines job recently.

McElwain was fired in the middle of the 2017 season after less than three years coaching the Gators. He was 22-12 with two SEC East titles. He has extensive experience coaching receivers, having done so at both Michigan State and Louisville, among other places.

Another coach in the mix for the Wolverines' vacancy is former Jets offensive coordinator Johnny Morton. A Michigan native, Morton coached receivers on Harbaugh’s staff with the 49ers.

 

[Bamabww]

Coach Mac, don't do it. Concentrate on your BBQ sauce instead.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Don't get that for a career move. Mac is already the best OC on the staff the moment he gets off that plane.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Like the guy to....hate to see him at Michigan

 

[Tidestalker]

Was there a reason Saban didn't go after him for OC? (Terry!)

Mac is a goofy character. But I think Florida humped the shark by pushing him off the boat so quickly

 

[OldPlayer]

While some people would need to go due to the need for a paycheck, that isn't the case with Mac. This isn't a long term job. Harbaugh hasn't done anything and won't do anything and doesn't have a long term future with Michigan.

 

[TerryP]

Don't get that for a career move. Mac is already the best OC on the staff the moment he gets off that plane.

I haven't seen UM name an offensive coordinator yet so Harbaugh may be dangling that proposition with Mac as he did with Enos.

 

[TerryP]

I haven't seen UM name an offensive coordinator yet so Harbaugh may be dangling that proposition with Mac as he did with Enos.

And I just ran across this ...

Report: Jim McElwain in running for Michigan offensive coordinator job

I guess there's a little irony here. Nuss left Bama to take the OC job at Michigan under Hoke and then went to UF to be OC under Mac...now Mac headed to UM as their OC? A strange sequence of events to say the least.

 

[TUSKtimes]

I haven't seen UM name an offensive coordinator yet so Harbaugh may be dangling that proposition with Mac as he did with Enos.

Interesting. Harbaugh needs Mac a lot more than otherwise.

 

[TerryP]

Former Florida head coach Jim McElwain has been offered a spot on Jim Harbaugh’s coaching staff at Michigan working with receivers in a role that could eventually include offensive coordinator duties and could begin as early as next week, a source told SI. McElwain would be taking the position former Arkansas offensive coordinator Dan Enos held for less than two months earlier this offseason before taking a job at Alabama.