Poor Jim McElwain. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock flubbed his name during an award ceremony last Friday at Sports Authority Field and three days later the Colorado State University football coach still wasn’t over it.
“I do understand where we are on the food chain from a relevance standpoint because the mayor doesn’t even know my name,” McElwain complained on Monday.
“Somebody pointed that out, that nobody thinks much of us, even though how many alums do we have in the Denver area? Like the most of any university there is? And yet the mayor doesn’t even know the head ball coach’s name. … Shows you how much they care about Colorado State, right?”
Oh, please. Knowledge of the football coach’s name is not synonymous with caring about CSU or even its football team, whatever McElwain and his overly sensitive ego might believe.
Sure, Hancock should have known McElwain’s name as well as that of the University of Colorado’s Mike McIntyre, but he wasn’t the first to stumble trying to remember both. Lighten up, coach. Your team — not you, but your team — won.