Florida's coach is a folksy son of a gun.
Look: Jim McElwain's press conference have generally been more colorful than Will Muschamp's, even the ones given a more relaxed and sharp-elbowed Muschamp when things were going fairly well for his Gators. They're both folksy — Muschamp is peanut-stand folksy; McElwain is fly-fishing folksy — but McElwain, 53, has lived a bit more life than his predecessor, who turned 44 in August, and thus has some slightly different touchstones.
This week, in previewing Florida's game against Missouri, McElwain told the tale of his 1972 Ford Pinto as a metaphor for the importance of handling the responsibilities related to ownership of something important, and compared the Gators' tenuous status as a nascent contender to "one-hit wonder" The Cyrkle, and their 1966 hit "Red Rubber Ball.