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LAKELAND — While more than 400 Polk County Florida Gators fans ate and drank inside, their head football coach was stuck in reverse outside.
The new luxury coach bus decorated in Gators blue and orange had to finagle its way through the Lake Mirror Center parking lot to drop off the 2016 Gator Gathering's guest of honor for his speaking engagement. First the nearly 50-foot long conveyance pulled down a lane in which it couldn't maneuver toward its intended parking space. The driver backed up onto the tight confines of South Lake Avenue before it finally was able to deliver its cargo to some fans who decided to greet McElwain as he got off the bus.