Tag: Trent Dilfer

UAB just needs to break up with Trent Dilfer already

It’s probably a matter of time for Trent Dilfer at UAB.

Hopefully it’s only a matter of time until the University of Alabama at Birmingham makes a football coaching change.

UAB’s 44-10 road loss to Army on Saturday was yet another deflating moment in Trent Dilfer’s tenure as Blazers head coach, and it’s fair to wonder how long Dilfer has to fix the team before administration has seen enough.

CBS Sports Network sideline reporter Tina Cervasio delivered a tough read of the UAB sideline early in its game against Army that makes you wonder if Dilfer has lost the locker room.

“Right as Army scored that touchdown, I looked to the UAB sidelines,” Cervasio said on the game broadcast. “A lot of downtrodden faces. They just looked sad.”

Cervasio did point out Blazers linebacker Jason Riles Jr. trying to pump up his teammates, and kudos to him for fighting the good fight despite almost everything going wrong for UAB this season.

However, Cervasio observation is devastating for Blazers fans. If the team really looked that dejected on the sideline after a single touchdown, Dilfer’s future at UAB looks even murkier than it did last week.

UAB was 7-6 in 2022 after interim coach Bryan Vincent replaced Bill Clark as the team’s head coach. Rather than let Vincent build on his progress, the team decided to poach Dilfer from Lipscomb Academy, a high school in Nashville.

UAB hadn’t had a losing season since 2013 before Dilfer’s arrival, the worst being a 6-6 record during Clark’s first year with the program in 2014.

Dilfer has only known losing records, going 4-8 last season and sitting on 1-5 in 2024. The team’s only win came against Alcorn State, and four of its five 2024 losses have been blowouts.

For comparison, Vincent is 4-1 with Louisiana-Monroe this season in his first head coaching job since UAB, one of those wins coming against the Blazers. Not hiring Vincent and going with a splashy name like Dilfer instead has proven to be an absolute disaster for the school.

Ending things now with Dilfer might be what’s needed to salvage the season if the Blazers can’t get this turned around.

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Don’t worry, Trent Dilfer: UAB fans are definitely angry with you after another blowout loss

Fans are NOT happy with Trent Dilfer after UAB’s awful loss to Tulane on Saturday.

University of Alabama at Birmingham football coach Trent Dilfer is feeling the heat from fans after his team’s abysmal home loss to Tulane on Saturday. The Blazers got trounced by the Green Wave to the tune of 71-20, leaving many wondering how long Dilfer has left UAB football at this point. The 1-4 Blazers only have a victory against Alcorn State this season, and Saturday’s loss is yet another difficult moment for Dilfer’s tenure with the program. After the game, Dilfer fell on his sword for the lopsided loss and said he apologized to his team for not getting them ready for the game. “I apologized to the team for not getting them ready for that type of physical nature of football,” Dilfer said during his postgame presser. “I’ll say to the fans I think you deserve more, the city of Birmingham deserves more. If you are going to be angry, please be angry at me. Don’t be angry at our kids. Our kids are giving us everything they have, and it’s my job to make sure something like this never happens again.” You can watch the full press conference below. Dilfer will likely be on thin ice with UAB from here on out, and fans let him have it for how poorly his team has played since he got to Birmingham. [lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1372]

UAB head coach Trent Dilfer’s weird, angry sideline rant blows up on social media

UAB head coach and former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer seems like a really angry guy, and Twitter had a lot to say about his latest sideline tantrum.

It’s not like we haven’t been here before with UAB head coach, Elite 11 purveyor, and former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer. When Dilfer was the head coach at Lipscomb University, a private, Christian liberal arts institution in Nashville in 2021, he was caught on video screaming at, and shoving, tight end Beau Dawson on the sideline… in a 62-7 win.

After the fact, Dilfer released this statement about an act that could have been considered a Class A misdemeanor in the state of Tennessee.

I want to address the incident on our sideline during Friday night’s game vs. Independence that has drawn a lot of attention. First and foremost, I take full responsibility as the head coach and leader of our team for not de-escalating an emotional situation with one of our players, Beau Dawson. Beau is one of our finest student-athletes and embodies all the characteristics we are looking for in our Mustang players. Beau plays the game with the right kind of passion and is an inspiration to our other players.

During a moment of frustration in an attempt to get our team to play with more discipline, I unfairly singled Beau out. Somehow Beau Dawson has been portrayed publicly as the culprit in this situation, when in reality I should have been a better leader and shown greater wisdom and discernment in how I handled this incident. Overall, I could not be more proud of Beau and the rest of our team for how they handle the emotional nature of each game they compete in.

So, now, Dilfer is the head coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and it does not appear that the anger management classes are working very well. This happened after a defensive penalty, and Dilfer started going OFF on his coaches to a bizarre degree.

I mean, what. At least Dilfer didn’t put his hands on anybody this time.

As one might expect, there was a lot to say on social media about it.

Trent Dilfer threw an absolute temper tantrum on the UAB sideline after a defensive penalty

Trent Dilfer threw a huge hissy fit on the UAB sideline over a sideline.

New University of Alabama at Birmingham football coach Trent Dilfer might want to cool off after throwing an absolute temper tantrum on the Blazers sideline during a Saturday game against Tulane.

After the UAB defense got caught for an illegal substitution for having 12 men on the field, Dilfer lost his top and began screaming at a handful of his assistant coaches over the snafu.

We get being frustrated by self-inflicted penalty like this, but the former NFL quarterback throwing a legitimate hissy fit on the sideline over something like this is just childish.

It recalls the time, while coaching in high school at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Dilfer went viral for shoving one of his players in a loud dispute.

Dilfer behaving like a toddler is a bad look for the first-year UAB coach as he’s going to have to learn how to handle situations like this on a college sideline.

The 1-3 Blazers have a lot of work to do this season, and it looks like keeping his cool will be on Dilfer’s self-improvement plan as a head coach.

Twitter reacts to Trent Dilfer comparing Drake Maye to Joe Burrow

Twitter reacts to Trent Dilfer comparing Drake Maye to Joe Burrow when talking about the 2024 NFL draft.

The college football season has yet to be played, but that has not stopped UNC quarterback [autotag]Drake Maye[/autotag] from already receiving NFL draft comparisons.

Former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer is the latest to praise the Tar Heel by comparing Maye to 2020 NFL 1st overall pick Joe Burrow. In an article written by Albert Breer, Dilfer described Burrow when talking about Maye and what he brings to the table.

“Yes, thank you, he’s Burrow,” Dilfer said. “That’s exactly who he is; he’s Joe Burrow, who we know is one of the great players in the NFL. So there’s nothing negative here. It’s more like, let’s get our analogies right. Burrow’s a very good athlete, he was a very good high school basketball player, he’s a great competitor, but what separates Joe Burrow is this innate quality, this nuance to his game, that people want to say is something that’s it’s not because you don’t know how to define it, instead of just saying I don’t know how to define it.
“It’s nuanced. … Joe makes everything look easy.”

Burrow heads into the season as one of the best quarterbacks in the nation, with many speculating the first overall pick coming down between USC’s Caleb Williams and Maye.

Unsurprisingly, the Joe Burrow comparison made its rounds on social media, catching quite the reaction.

Let us look at how Twitter reacted to Dilfer, comparing Maye to Burrow.

Alabama QB recruit, Julian Sayin, makes the 2023 Elite 11 Finals

Alabama QB commit, Julian Sayin, seeks to become fourth Alabama QB to win the Elite 11

The Elite 11 is the most prestigious quarterback camp that any prospective collegiate QB can compete at. The camp takes place across the country with hundreds of competitors but the Finals take place at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. This is the 25th year of the competition and will be headlined by Dylan Raiola, a Georgia commit, and [autotag]Julian Sayin[/autotag], an Alabama commit, among the 20 finalists.

The quarterbacks compete in various drills throughout the week as well as 7-on-7 games to be declared as the champion of their class with the whole tournament being run by Super Bowl-winning QB, Trent Dilfer. Former Alabama QBs that won include, Tua Tagovailoa, Brodie Croyle and Blake Barnett, with other notable winners being Mathew Stafford, Jameis Winston, Justin Fields and Caleb Williams.

The hype for Sayin is real in Tuscaloosa right now as the QB situation remains very rocky heading into the summer. Sayin will likely get to campus in January of 2024 and might be able to compete for the job from day one depending on how the 2023 season plays out. According to 247Sports composite rankings, Sayin is the No. 2 QB in the 2024 recruiting cycle and the No. 11 overall player.

Roll Tide Wire will monitor Sayin’s performance at the Elite 11.

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27 Days, 27 Picks: QB Trent Dilfer

Our 27 Days, 27 Picks series ends on a low note, featuring a quarterback who would eventually win a Super Bowl with a different team (and then become the first-ever Super Bowl-winning QB to be cut afterward).

In 27 Days, 27 Picks, Bucs Wire will analyze the last 27 Tampa Bay Buccaneers first-round draft picks, one for each day leading up to the 2023 NFL draft. We’ll take a look at the player’s college stats, their pre-draft numbers (either via the NFL Combine or their Pro Day), their NFL stats, some player footage and analysis at the end on whether the pick itself was a good one.

At long last, our 27 Days, 27 Picks series comes to a close — tonight, a new name will (possibly, assuming the team doesn’t trade out like it did last year) be added to the list. Until then, though, we have one more player, and he isn’t quite as illustrious as the two we just went over.

Check out the draft rundown on [autotag]Trent Dilfer[/autotag] below:

Did Trent Dilfer REALLY coach the ‘most dominant’ high school team in Tennessee history?

Trent Dilfer might want to rethink this hot take.

Former NFL quarterback and UAB’s new head coach Trent Dilfer loves a spicy take.

In an interview with The Tennessean, Dilfer reminisced about his four years coaching high school football at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville. Let’s just say he might’ve gotten carried away with how successful those teams really were.

“We were the most dominant team in the history of Tennessee high school football,” he says, feet kicked up on the desk of his new office, “and it’s not arguable. There’s no argument against what we just accomplished.”

OK, pump the brakes.

While Dilfer’s teams were undoubtedly some of the best in Tennessee, they were at the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association’s D-II AA level.

The state’s most competitive level of play for private schools is D-II AAA, featuring heavyweights Brentwood Academy (a school that has produced athletes like Los Angeles Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey), Briarcrest, Baylor and Montgomery Bell Academy.

Though Lipscomb’s moving up to AAA this fall, it won its two state titles with Dilfer at the AA level. To even vaguely claim any sort of “greatest of all time” status, his teams would’ve needed more wins against AAA competition. To boot, Dilfer’s team actually lost to Brentwood Academy, 29-19, in August 2020.

Dilfer’s team also never defeated Tennessee powerhouse Oakland High School. Stationed in Murfreesboro, Oakland has become the team to beat since coach Kevin Creasy was hired in 2015. If any schools in state history have a fair argument for “most dominant” status, it’d be Creasy’s Oakland teams.

You can’t even argue Dilfer’s teams were the most dominant in Lipscomb Academy’s history. For about three decades, Lipscomb was led by TSSAA Hall of Fame coach Glenn McCadams, who won three state titles and went to the playoffs 27 of his 31 years at the high school. That makes Dilfer the second-most accomplished football coach in school history.

While Dilfer certainly accomplished a lot in his four years, saying his teams were the most dominant in Tennessee history is a stretch. It might not be as outlandish as his take on modern quarterback play, but it’s up there.

Trent Dilfer throws shade at Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers’ careers

Trent Dilfer’s tough take on Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers raised eyebrows.

Former Baltimore Ravens quarterback Trent Dilfer had a curious take on former NFL quarterback Tom Brady and current Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Dilfer played in the NFL for 13 seasons, doing so for five different teams. He was able to win a Super Bowl with the Ravens in 2000, behind a dominant Ravens defense. His latest critique of Brady and Rodgers came during the filming of ESPN’s “Bullies of Baltimore” documentary.

Looking at the career resumes of both Rogers and Brady combined, eight super Bowls and seven MVPs hardly seems like anything to scoff at. Nevertheless, Dilfer was not afraid to take jabs when talking about the legendary quarterbacks in relation to the modern quarterback, as shown in an ESPN clip.

“Modern-day game does not impress me. It’s super easy when you don’t get hit as a quarterback and when you can’t reroute receivers, and when you can’t hit guys across the middle. I love Tom Brady, I love Aaron Rogers. I love these guys. It’s not impressive.”

Longevity has been a staple of both Brady and Rodgers’ careers. Brady retired last week with 24 seasons under his belt. Rodgers, on the other hand, is heading into his 18th season. Those numbers alone are impressive, to say the least.

In any event, Dilfer’s quote certainly raises eyebrows.

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