UAB football coach Trent Dilfer leaves stunning comments on the transfer portal

The college football offseason is here for all but two teams as the national championship is the only game left. There are no offseason games, but it’s still a fun time in the college football world because of the transfer portal. It always exists drama involving a portaland UAB football coach Trent Dilfer brought some of that drama to light Tuesday.

Trent Dilfer claims that teams in the American Athletic Conference they take players from the UAB football team just so the Blazers don’t have them.

“In our conference, we’re not going to use schools again, we’ve got two teams that are going to go on our roster and sign double or triple what these guys can make on our roster and back them up on our roster so we can’t have them,” Dilfer said during an appearance on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning. “It’s happening at our conference.”

The NIL is another major topic in college football right now, and that goes hand-in-hand with the transfer portal. Players can now make money in college football and want to go where they will make the most money.

One big thing we’ve heard coaches complain about in this new era is fumbling. Interference is when a school contacts a player from another school when said player is not on the transfer portal. Interference is illegal so teams cannot recruit players from other schools. However, it happens often and often goes unpunished.

Distraction is a big complaint, but this issue brought to light by Trent Dilfer is new. UAB and the other schools in the American Athletic Conference can’t compete with the sport’s top dogs in the NIL, but the top schools in the conference have better resources than the Blazers.

There has always been a concern that smaller schools with less money will fall behind in this new era of college athletics, and this situation that Dilfer talks about at UAB is a perfect example. It’s one thing for a player to leave and get more money because he’s going to play and make a big impact at another school. Taking players who are going to be backups just so the other school doesn’t have them is certainly a different story.

Obviously, every coach has their own rights to things like this, and there are two sides to every story. However, this is a new one. We’ve already seen plenty of problems with the NIL and transfer portal in college football, and more and more are likely to emerge as the sport continues to adapt to this new era.