It’s the time of yr when disappointing school soccer packages begin to make large modifications and go available on the market for brand spanking new head coaches.
UAB won’t be a kind of packages, saying on Tuesday that head coach Trent Dilfer will probably be returning for a 3rd yr answerable for this system in 2025.
It’s a shocking transfer given how disappointing his first two years on the workforce’s sidelines have gone.
In his first two years, Dilfer’s workforce has gone simply 7-17, with two of these wins coming in opposition to FCS groups.
Had UAB determined to fireside Dilfer, it will 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 threat has not paid off and if something has introduced plenty of embarrassment to a program that in recent times had a minimum of been aggressive.
Within the six years previous to Dilfer, UAB had six straight successful seasons, a .656 general successful share and appeared in 5 bowl video games, successful 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 a minimum of had an opportunity to turn out to be 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 idea 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 if you’re a UAB fan.
