Trent Dilfer Has Warning For Any Coach Who Tampers With UAB's Roster
BRENTWOOD, TN - AUGUST 21: Head coach Trent Dilfer of Lipscomb Academy instructs his players during a football game against Brentwood Academy on August 21, 2020 in Brentwood, Tennessee. High school football restarted this week across most of Tennessee despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic still affecting many parts of the world. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)
Trent Dilfer is entering his first season as the head coach at UAB, and he's taking a very different approach to Deion Sanders, who's in his first year at Colorado.
Sanders was very open about how he intended to use the transfer portal, and even advised players he knew wouldn't get certain opportunities to transfer. Several players took that message to heart, leading to a mass exodus of players from the program.
In a recent radio appearance, Dilfer says he's putting his foot down on opposing coaches attempting to contact his players for a potential transfer.
"By the way, come try to get my guys," Dilfer said on the Rick and Bubba Show.
"I dare you, Power Fives. I got a pretty big platform that I can step on, and if I find you in my kids' DMs, and if I find you talking to high school coaches about my kids, if you're in my roster, I'm gonna call your ass out."
Dilfer, a former ESPN analyst, says that he has the means to call out any major college coach for tampering if he feels he needs to.
"I'm going to say it, by name, to the biggest voices in television today and it's going to make [College] Gameday and it's going to make SportsCenter."
Dilfer will enter his first year as a college coach at UAB after previously spending time as a high school coach in Nashville.
