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- Coached in seven bowl games, including one BCS bowl game in helping his teams to four conference championships
- Joins Tennessee after three seasons at Cincinnati (2010-12) where he spent each of his seasons with the Bearcats coaching a different position
- In 2012, coached safeties and served as the special teams coordinator
- Mentored running backs for the Bearcats in 2011 and tight ends in 2010
- Helped the Bearcats to back-to-back conference titles in 2011 and 2012
- Tutored 2011 First Team All-Big East and Big East Offensive Player of the Year Isaiah Pead in 2011, who became the first Bearcat to record consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in nearly 25 years
- Offensively in 2011, UC averaged 385 yards per game, and ranked No. 1 in the BIG EAST in overall yardage and rushing yardage while scoring an average of 33.3 points per game on the way to a BIG EAST Conference Championship and a win in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl over SEC foe Vanderbilt
- Coached Second Team All-Big East tight end Ben Guidugli in 2010
- In 2010, Cincinnati led the Big East in scoring offense (27.1 ppg), total offense (417.3 ypg), passing offense (260.7 ypg), first downs (21.9 ypg), third-down conversions (45.6 pct.) and touchdown passes (27)
- Spent three seasons coaching linebackers at Central Michigan from 2007-09
- Produced an all-conference linebacker in each of his three seasons with the Chippewas
- Nick Bellore was an all-conference first team pick in 2008 and 2009, following in the footsteps of former CMU standouts Red Keith and Ike Brown in 2007
- Keith's 474 career stops rank second in school history and seventh in NCAA Bowl Subdivision history
- Served as a graduate assistant at Michigan from 2005-06 under Lloyd Carr where he worked with the UM linebackers, including All-Big Ten selections David Harris and Shawn Crable
- The 2006 Michigan defense led the nation in rushing yards allowed (43.4 yards/game) and ranked 10th in total defense (268.3 yards/game allowed)
- Previously served as the defensive coordinator at Wayne State (2004) and Iona (2003), also serving as the linebackers coach at both institutions
- Worked with a pair of All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference linebackers at Iona and directed a defense that ranked first in the MAAC in total defense and second in scoring and rushing defense
- A 2000 graduate of Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in economics and was a three-time all-conference selection as a defensive back
- Earned his master's degree in eduction from Akron in 2001
- Elder is married to his wife, Lindsey
