Jim McElwain
Assistant Coach at Central Michigan since 2025.
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- Seasons coached
- 42
- First season
- 1985
- Teams
- 11
Career
14 stints
1980s
- 1985–1986Eastern WashingtonGraduate Assistant
- 1987–1994Eastern WashingtonQuarterbacksWide Receivers
1990s
- 1995–1999Montana StateOffensive CoordinatorSpecial Teams CoordinatorWide Receivers
2000s
- 2000–2002LouisvilleSpecial Teams CoordinatorWide Receivers
- 2003–2005Michigan StateAssistant Head CoachSpecial Teams CoordinatorWide Receivers
- 2006Oakland RaidersQuarterbacks
- 2007Fresno StateOffensive Coordinator
- 2008–2011AlabamaOffensive CoordinatorQuarterbacks
2010s
- 2012–2014Colorado StateHead Coach
- 2015–2017FloridaHead Coach
- 2017FloridaAssistant Coach
- 2018MichiganWide Receivers
- 2019–2024Central MichiganHead Coach
2020s
- 2025–presentCentral MichiganAssistant Coach
Coaching tree
8 mentors, 34 protégés, 9 branches — a branch is a protégé who went on to hold a head job.
MentorsProtégés
Everyone shown became a head coachShowing up to 7 per row
Relationships
Coached under
49
- 2025–2026Matt DrinkallCoached under · Central Michigan
- 2023–2024Brandon TorreyMentored · Central Michigan
- 2022–2023Paul PetrinoMentored · Central Michigan
- 2022–2024Tom MasonMentored · Central Michigan
- 2022William VlachosMentored · Central Michigan
- 2021–2024Mike ZordichMentored · Central Michigan
- 2020–2021Tim SkipperMentored · Central Michigan
- 2019Austin ApplebyMentored · Central Michigan
- 2019–2020Charlie FryeMentored · Central Michigan
- 2019–2021Kevin BarbayMentored · Central Michigan
- 2019–2024Robb AkeyMentored · Central Michigan
- 2019Ryan BeardMentored · Central Michigan
- 2018Jim HarbaughCoached under · Michigan
- 2017Brad DavisMentored · Florida
- 2017Corey BellMentored · Florida
34 more, most recent shown first.
Succeeded
24
- 2025Matt DrinkallSucceeded by · Central Michigan
- 2019John BonamegoSucceeded · Central Michigan
- 2018Dan MullenSucceeded by · Florida
- 2018Dean KennedySucceeded by · Florida
- 2018Ryan OsbornSucceeded by · Florida
- 2017Kevin BarbaySucceeded · Florida
- 2017Randy ShannonSucceeded by · Florida
- 2017Robb AkeySucceeded by · Florida
- 2017Robb AkeySucceeded · Florida
- 2015D.J. DurkinSucceeded · Florida
- 2015Joe CoxSucceeded by · Colorado State
- 2015Matt BarnesSucceeded · Florida
- 2015Mike BoboSucceeded by · Colorado State
- 2015Will MuschampSucceeded · Florida
- 2014Dave BaldwinSucceeded by · Colorado State
9 more, most recent shown first.
Tenure
42 seasons
- Eastern WashingtonPosition coach · 1987–19948
- Central MichiganHead coach · 2019–20246
- Montana StateCoordinator · 1995–19995
- AlabamaCoordinator · 2008–20114
- FloridaHead coach · 2015–20173
- Colorado StateHead coach · 2012–20143
- Michigan StateCoordinator · 2003–20053
- LouisvilleCoordinator · 2000–20023
- Central MichiganPosition coach · 2025–2026 · current2
- Eastern WashingtonAnalyst · 1985–19862
- MichiganPosition coach · 20181
- FloridaPosition coach · 20171
- Fresno StateCoordinator · 20071
- Oakland RaidersPosition coach · 20061
Pipeline
7 of 14 coordinators
- 1 seasonRobb Akeyunder at Central Michigan 2019 · head coach at Oregon State2025
- 6 seasonsRyan Beardunder at Central Michigan 2019 · head coach at Missouri State2025
- 3 seasonsTim Skipperunder at Central Michigan 2020 · head coach at Fresno State2024
- 10 seasonsTim Skipperunder at Colorado State 2012 · head coach at Fresno State2024
- 6 seasonsBilly Napierunder at Colorado State 2012 · head coach at Louisiana2018
- 1 seasonGeoff Collinsunder at Florida 2015 · head coach at Temple2017
- 0 seasonsRandy Shannonunder at Florida 2015 · head coach at Florida2017
- 0 seasonsDave Baldwinunder at Colorado State 2012 · head coach at Colorado State2014
Moves
Nothing on the wire for Jim McElwain. The wire carries moves published since the register went live; the career above is the record before that.