UAB's Dilfer Disaster and The Worst Coach Hires of the Past 15 Years

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Since UAB hired Trent Dilfer before the 2023 season, a once-solid program has become one of college football’s worst teams. Rodger Sherman, who wrote an excellent feature about the flawed ideology behind the hire, joins Richard, Godfrey, and Alex to discuss how UAB set itself up to fail with a hire that made no strategic or cultural sense. Then, Rodger and the SZD hosts hold a three-round draft of the worst coaching hires of the past 15 years. It’s a walk down memory lane not just of hires who didn’t win, but of hires that were unwise at the time they were made. Let’s see what lessons we can learn.

Read Rodger's Dilfer story and more at Read Rodge: https://rodgersherman.substack.com/p/the-dilfer-debacle-or-a-case-study

Producer: Anthony Vito

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0:00.0	We're coming and we ain't back in now. We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
0:04.0	Looking in the mirror.
0:05.0	Everybody do you jump?
0:07.0	You have to stay there.
0:08.0	Hey, will you shut up?
0:09.0	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:11.0	Guys being dudes.
0:12.0	And they run through our shit like shit through a ten horn man. supported with the officiating today. Guys being dudes.
0:12.6	And they run through our shit, like through a 10 horn, man.
0:17.0	Thank you, Lee.
0:18.1	Thank you to our split-zone duo listeners and subscribers.
0:21.3	This is a show that really excites me. We have four people on the mic this week.
0:26.0	I am Alex Kirsner. I am joined by Richard Johnson. I am joined by Stephen Godfrey.
0:30.5	And I am joined by a first-time guest, longtime friend of the program.
0:35.8	He's been on the show.
0:36.8	Roger Sherman.
0:37.8	Oh wait, not a first time.
0:39.8	Roger, sorry, never mind.
0:40.8	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
0:45.0	out voted.
0:46.2	Hi, I'm Roger Sherman, the longtime host of Splitzo Duo.
0:49.7	Yeah.
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