College Football Fans Think it's Time to Fire Super Bowl-Winning Quarterback

Regardless of what sport it is, hiring a head coach with no prior experience at that level is undeniably risky.

The UAB Blazers (1-3) knew that, yet they decided to give Trent Dilfer a chance to be the program's head coach. The quarterback of the 2000 Baltimore Ravens team that won the Super Bowl had never coached at the college level but was a head coach at the high school level for four years. He also was one of the Elite 11 quarterback camp coaches, but none of these experiences have seemed to translate for Dilfer.

Just 16 games into his tenure at UAB, Dilfer has accumulated a 5-11 record. On top of leading the program to its first sub-.500 record since 2013, this past season, Dilfer has already managed to lose quite a bit of support from the fan base.

With the Blazers trailing by 31 points at halftime of the team's Week 6 game against the Tulane Green Wave (3-2), fans are flooding social media with posts expressing that it's already time to end the Dilfer era in Birmingham.

"UAB needs to fire Trent Dilfer at halftime. That program deserves better," wrote one fan.

"What would it take to get Coach Clark to come out of retirement? The Trent Dilfer experiment is over," added another.

"Trent Dilfer has never been a more fired person," joked one user.

"If Trent Dilfer isn't gone before next week I want answers. It has been the same thing every week now on top of his crappy comments last week. Clearly the players are checked out. We are done with this experiment," chimed in another.

On top of the team's putrid showing on the field, Dilfer hasn't helped his case off of it either. Following the Blazers' 41-18 loss to the Navy Midshipmen in Week 5, Dilfer took a shot at his program's importance in his postgame press conference.

While a reporter was asking Dilfer a question, the head coach appeared to be distracted by something happening off-camera. He later indicated to someone that his grandson could join him at the podium, expressing that UAB isn't like the Alabama Crimson Tide, and that there were just a couple of reporters.

"He can come up," Dilfer said . "There’s two of them (reporters). It’s not like this is freakin’ Alabama. Let’s go.”

A comment that certainly was an unpopular one, as the UAB program is often put down due to the success of the Crimson Tide. One that Dilfer didn't apologize for until before Saturday's game on a pregame show, according to Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham Lede.

"On pregame radio with David Crane, @DilfersDimes finally apologized for his "freakin Alabama" comments," wrote Scarbinsky "Said was a tough week feeling the backlash. Said he never meant to hurt anyone's feelings. Said he loves UAB and Bham."

Needless to say, things are not going very well for Dilfer in Birmingham.

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