UAB Fires Trent Dilfer After Simply 30 Video games As Head Coach

Trent Dilfer is now not a school head coach.

The former Super Bowl champion quarterback was fired by UAB on Sunday after a rocky three-season tenure. The Blazers have opened the 2025 marketing campaign 2-4 and have misplaced three video games in a row, resulting in the college firing its head soccer coach. UAB misplaced to Florida Atlantic 53-33 on Saturday, which seems to have been the final straw.

The college’s athletic director, Mark Ingram, issued the following statement asserting the transfer.

We have decided to half methods with Head Football Coach Trent Dilfer. We agree that—sadly—our on-field efficiency has not lived as much as the usual of profitable we’ve got for this system. This determination will enable us to maneuver ahead in the most effective long-term curiosity of this system. I’ve requested Alex Mortensen to function interim head coach to guide the crew for the rest of the season as we proceed as a division and college to offer the help our scholar athletes have to compete. I want Coach Dilfer the most effective and thank him for his class, tireless work and dedication throughout his tenure at UAB. While his efforts didn’t translate right into a profitable document, every younger man who performed for him might be a greater individual because of this.

Dilfer took over as the pinnacle coach at UAB in 2023, and in two-plus seasons went 9-21 and 5-14 in convention. He additionally had some controversial moments.

The 53-year-old was employed after teaching Lipscomb Academy, a non-public highschool in Nashville, for 4 seasons. He was 44-10 general at Lipscomb, and 26-1 in his last two seasons.

Mortensen will take over because the interim head coach. If that title sounds acquainted, he’s the son of late ESPN NFL analyst Chris Mortensen. The youthful Mortensen performed quarterback at Arkansas in faculty and has been a coach at numerous ranges since 2012. The 39-year-old was UAB’s offensive coordinator underneath Dilfer.

The No. 6 choose by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers within the 1994 NFL draft, Dilfer performed 13 seasons within the NFL and led the Baltimore Ravens to a championship at Super Bowl XXXV. After retiring in 2008, he labored as an analyst for NFL Network, ESPN, and Fox Sports 1 earlier than stepping into teaching. He additionally helped set up the Elite 11 Academy in 2009, which continues to coach a few of the high highschool quarterbacks within the nation.

His three-season stint at UAB is now over.

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