It’s the time of yr when disappointing school soccer applications begin to make large modifications and go available on the market for brand new head coaches.
UAB is not going to be a type of applications, saying on Tuesday that head coach Trent Dilfer shall be returning for a 3rd yr in command of this system in 2025.
It’s a shocking transfer given how disappointing his first two years on the staff’s sidelines have gone.
In his first two years, Dilfer’s staff has gone simply 7-17, with two of these wins coming towards FCS groups.
Had UAB determined to fireside Dilfer, it might have needed to pay him a $3M buyout.
UAB took an enormous gamble on hiring Dilfer previous to the 2023 season as a result of he had zero teaching expertise above highschool. That danger has not paid off and if something has introduced loads of embarrassment to a program that in recent times had no less than been aggressive.
Within the six years previous to Dilfer, UAB had six straight profitable seasons, a .656 total profitable proportion and appeared in 5 bowl video games, profitable three of them. The one yr in that stretch this system didn’t seem in a bowl recreation was the 2020 Covid yr when it nonetheless went 6-3. The truth that got here after this system was on a two-year hiatus makes it much more spectacular.
It appeared like a program that no less than had an opportunity to develop into a constant Group of 5 contender, and Dilfer has undone all of that in two years and turned this system right into a laughing inventory.
Both UAB management has the assumption that Dilfer can change and switch this system round or it merely didn’t need to pay the $3M buyout and pay a brand new head coach on prime of that. Neither one appears promising or encouraging in case you are a UAB fan.
