UAB’s Bill Clark on coaching through chaos (and more!)

Podcast Ain't Played Nobody

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4.9 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Richard and Alex talk with UAB head coach Bill Clark, who led the Blazers through a program shutdown and prolonged uncertainty a few years ago, about what it’s like to run a team through the COVID-19 pandemic. They also talk about defensive theory, a good Nick Saban story, and the Conference USA picture in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Podcast ain't played nobody.
0:02.0	Alex, what's happening?
0:04.0	Good guest this week?
0:05.0	We have a great guest this week.
0:07.0	We thought that it would be interesting to talk to a coach who
0:10.0	has a little bit more experience than most in coaching through times of extraordinary
0:16.4	chaos and no football.
0:19.4	No football, a good way to put that.
0:21.2	That is Bill Clark, the head coach at U. A longtime high school coach
0:24.9	former defensive coordinator at South Alabama and football coaching lifer. So
0:29.8	the conversation is about a half hour and was there anything we should make the people aware of Richard before we start?
0:36.9	Yeah, this is a this is your guy in there right? You're big on you a B. I am big on you aAB. I think I mean UAB has for 2020 if we are able to play football this year a really interesting team because you know you'll remember they shut down the program for a couple of years. They come back, you know, in 2017 they come back in 2018
0:56.2	they win conference USA with a roster loaded with junior college players. We'll talk
1:00.3	about that a bit with Coach Clark and you know they are a program that has just kind of been through a ton of chaos in the last few years and
1:09.4	Though they're of course bigger things than this pandemic's effect on football this is one
1:13.7	of them so we'll talk about that and if they are able to play in 2020 we think they're
1:18.1	going to be very good because of all the players they have back you know they have
1:21.2	the quarterback back Tyler Johnston who led Conference USA in
1:24.7	yards per throw last year they've got almost all of their top rushers and
1:28.7	receivers back and I think five of their top six tacklers so interesting team to
1:32.3	watch. Yeah they play a really
1:34.4	really good defense. If you missed kind of are not aware of the UAB story, go
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