UAB hires former NFL star, ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer as next head football coach

Trent Dilfer, the 14-year NFL veteran quarterback and Super Bowl XXXV champion, was announced Wednesday as the seventh head coach in the history of UAB football. “I like big climbs,” the 50-year-old said Wednesday at the UAB Alumni House. “I wish I was a better athlete these days. I’d be a mountain climber, because I like looking up at the top of the peak and people saying there’s no way you’re getting up there and I say, ‘Let me show you.’ That’s what we’re going to do here at UAB.” Dilfer most recently spent the past four years as head coach of Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, where he led the Mustangs to the 2021 D2-AA State Championship. His squad will again play for the state title on Thursday before he begins his tenure with the Blazers on Friday. But Athletics Director Mark Ingram said he didn’t hire a high school football coach. “I’m hiring the No. 6 overall pick in the NFL Draft, a guy who spent 14 years playing quarterback at the highest level,” he said. “I’m hiring a guy that’s a Pro Bowler, who was the starting quarterback in a Super Bowl championship team, a guy who spent nine years with ESPN doing analytics, commentary
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