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Unlike the past few years where we establish the run to open up big pass plays, it may be the opposite this year. Establish the pass to open up the run game. Either way I think our RBs and WRs will be eating this year. Dilfer and Mortensen said the spring game was extra vanilla and basic plays, so will be interesting to see their play book open up during the season.

While we are #1 in RBs, yet another site has Dilfer dead last in AAC coaching.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...23-season/

Quote:14. Trent Dilfer, UAB: A UAB program that has finished .500 or better for seven straight seasons turned the keys over to a high school coach. Yes, Dilfer won a Super Bowl as a quarterback and state championships in Tennessee as a coach, but this is quite a jump for someone who has never even been a college assistant. 2022 AAC ranking: N/A

Let them doubt. I believe the critics will be proven dead wrong, starting with that anonymous coach quoted in Athlon.

(05-22-2023 09:28 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  While we are #1 in RBs, yet another site has Dilfer dead last in AAC coaching.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...23-season/

Quote:14. Trent Dilfer, UAB: A UAB program that has finished .500 or better for seven straight seasons turned the keys over to a high school coach. Yes, Dilfer won a Super Bowl as a quarterback and state championships in Tennessee as a coach, but this is quite a jump for someone who has never even been a college assistant. 2022 AAC ranking: N/A

14th is fair given everything we know at this point.

(05-22-2023 08:41 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  Unlike the past few years where we establish the run to open up big pass plays, it may be the opposite this year. Establish the pass to open up the run game. Either way I think our RBs and WRs will be eating this year. Dilfer and Mortensen said the spring game was extra vanilla and basic plays, so will be interesting to see their play book open up during the season.

Bumped into one of the RBs at a park recently and asked him what he thought about the staff/offense. He said that the offense was 1000x more complicated than Vincent's, which doesn't seem too surprising considering the run plays used to just be zone left or right. Didn't want to take up too much of his time but he said the team has totally bought in and the staff couldn't be more incredible. He didn't seem to me to just be regurgitating stuff he thought he should say and that he actually believed it.

(05-22-2023 12:20 PM)uabblazer2012 Wrote:  

(05-22-2023 09:28 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  While we are #1 in RBs, yet another site has Dilfer dead last in AAC coaching.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...23-season/

Quote:14. Trent Dilfer, UAB: A UAB program that has finished .500 or better for seven straight seasons turned the keys over to a high school coach. Yes, Dilfer won a Super Bowl as a quarterback and state championships in Tennessee as a coach, but this is quite a jump for someone who has never even been a college assistant. 2022 AAC ranking: N/A

14th is fair given everything we know at this point.

I can't blame anyone on the outside for taking that viewpoint. I kind of thought that way myself at first. But I think Dilfer and staff will prove everyone wrong in time.

(05-22-2023 02:50 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(05-22-2023 12:20 PM)uabblazer2012 Wrote:  

(05-22-2023 09:28 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  While we are #1 in RBs, yet another site has Dilfer dead last in AAC coaching.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...23-season/

Quote:14. Trent Dilfer, UAB: A UAB program that has finished .500 or better for seven straight seasons turned the keys over to a high school coach. Yes, Dilfer won a Super Bowl as a quarterback and state championships in Tennessee as a coach, but this is quite a jump for someone who has never even been a college assistant. 2022 AAC ranking: N/A

14th is fair given everything we know at this point.

I can't blame anyone on the outside for taking that viewpoint. I kind of thought that way myself at first. But I think Dilfer and staff will prove everyone wrong in time.

I agree.

I said it on the AAC board, and I’ll say it here. First time coaches shouldn’t be ranked in these polls, because nobody has a clue. Some will work out, others won’t. But just throwing coaches into some random list involves no thought and isn’t based off of anything.