Florida coach Jim McElwain received a lot of heat over the weekend for an expletive-laced tirade at running back Kelvin Taylor on the sidelines following an unsportsmanlike penalty for a throat slash gesture after a touchdown that was caught on camera.

The Dan Lebatard Show caught up with former Florida star Fred Taylor, Kelvin's father, to get his thoughts on the outburst.

"I thought it was a little bit of an overreaction, but I do understand coaching," Taylor said. "I understand the moment."

Taylor pointed to a lack of touches and the excitement of the game as being reasons his son got caught up in the moment.

"Even my son, he wants more reps," the elder Taylor said. "He's a junior, he wants to make it happen. He wants an opportunity to not get caught up in the whole rotating three running backs. Two, well, you deal with it. Three? The rhythm and that piece of it, it's sort of frustrating. He had the opportunity to sort of punch on in and he got caught up in the celebration his old man used to do."

As far as his son? Taylor said his son understands why McElwain said what he said.

"He understands. He made, as coach called it, a selfish act," Taylor said. "They weren't playing good defense, and you couldn't afford at that opportunity to give them that sort of field position. They went down and they scored and it was a closer game than it should have been. So he gets it. Coach McElwain, hopefully they'll have their talk, whatever they do."

One interesting thing Taylor noted was that McElwain's outburst, caught on camera, will ultimately reflect more poorly on the coach in the long run than his son.

"Yeah, I do think it was a little much, but they'll make a mockery," he said. "History shows that the coaches that go and act that way, they'll be a bigger mockery over time than the actual player will. My son, he'll forget about this. He's forgotten about it, so I don't think it's a big deal."

Taylor's ready to move past the incident and hopeful his son can contribute even more down the road as Florida's season continues.

"I'm excited when he gets an opportunity to score, when he gets an opportunity to get a few touches to help the ballclub," he said. "But in that particular situation he has to be a smarter player."

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