Taven Bryan’s dad has some opinions about the previous S&C staff.

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"[Taven] was superfit when (Will) Muschamp was running the program," Bryan's father told Adelson. "What that guy [McElwain] did in the Mountain West, you can’t do the same [expletive] in the SEC."

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1) The weight room was never looked after very well. Things were left everywhere, which would sometimes cause things to go missing, etc.

2) There really wasn't a sharp eye on proper form at all, and the overall feeling was that supervision was simply not what it should be at a DI program.

3) The strength staff itself often wasn't on the same page, from Kent to some of the assistants. I don't believe there was ever much mutual confidence in the direction things were going or needed to head.

4) At one point, a prominent player (Taven Bryan) was disgusted with all of the above and went directly to McElwain complaining about it. He pointed to a particular player on the team as an example, pointing out that this particular player could be a top NFL Draft pick but instead looks fat and out of shape.

5) There were a sizeable number of players, particularly guys with NFL aspirations, that felt the S&C program wasn't doing enough to adequately prepare them and so they had also been working out regularly at a professional training facility in town. Some of the guys that this were Brandon Powell, DeAndre Goolsby and Chauncey Gardner-Johnson.

6) While recovering from shoulder surgery in the summer of 2017, Luke Del Rio worked out a local gym in town. It is unusual for a player rehabbing from a major surgery to work out away from team facilities, unsupervised. It's entirely possible he didn't trust Florida's strength staff.

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