Trent Dilfer canned from UAB

https://www.on3.com/news/uab-fires-head-coach-trent-dilfer /

Didn't agree with the hire then, and shows now.

This feels like a real topsy-turvy kinda year where I'm not sure who will be top of lists at a lot of schools, and I believe more firings are coming.

And we have a coach with NO buyout. Win a couple more, and may not be a reason to hurry and sign a contract. Per reports, it's a contract, with NO years, or no incentives, or buyouts. Some say this is standard, but if it is, what is this such a rare occurrence in the ranks for head coaches.

The days of giving it 2-3 years are long gone. With the NIL, portal, and all this free flowing cash - no one is even waiting a year for someone to turn it around. You either get your recruits in the door today and start winning or we'll find someone else who can.

Yes, I'm sure that our coach, with all of 7 games under his belt as a head coach, and a 4-3 record including a loss to a bad Ball State team is top of the list for UAB.

You think the contract thing is a big deal. I'm curious to hear why. Is there some reason why you're not discussing that in the thread about the contract and instead are making weird, passive aggressive comments? You can -- if you want to -- discuss the points I'm making with me in the thread started to do just that.

Instead, it's "some say this is standard" in a second thread. You make passive aggression an art.

I would push back from this a little bit because UAB plays in the American and not a power conference. The cash isn't there in smaller conferences to make knee jerk reactions when it's not working in year 2 or 3. Dilfer would have gotten more rope if he just wasn't a terrible coach and from what sounds like it, just not a good guy to promote your university.

https://rodgersherman.substack.com/p/the-dilfer-debacle-o...

"And in a podcast released by the school itself, Dilfer sat down with Ingram, the UAB AD, and gave a recruiting pitch for the University of Louisville’s volleyball program, where his daughter plays. When Ingram gently pushed back and said volleyball recruits should also consider UAB, Dilfer weirdly doubled down, saying “they’re pulling from different buckets”—essentially, that he should be allowed to hype Louisville’s program over UAB’s because Louisville’s recruits are so much better that they’d never consider UAB. Thanks, Trent, that fixes everything."

Guess he has plenty of time now to follow the Cardinals around the ACC and beyond...