Jim McElwain is a fine coach — but he still sits at the children’s table when it comes to recruiting. If you haven’t delivered a top-10 class at Florida in three years, you certainly are not sitting with the big boys.
Gators fans still are waiting for McElwain to land the five-star prospect that could mean he was on his way to joining the elites, like Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Jimbo Fisher and Dabo Swinney. Watching Georgia’s Kirby Smart make such a quick impact on the recruiting trail hasn’t helped, either.
The player that could start to change how McElwain is perceived as a recruiter is Kennesaw (Ga.