Trent Dilfer discussed UAB’s NIL woes without naming names. Then Tulane’s Jon Sumrall did.

UAB football coach Trent Dilfer was on the radio Tuesday in Birmingham, Alabama, explaining the Blazers’ plight in trying to keep up financially with other schools in the American Athletic Conference.

Dilfer mentioned during the appearance on WJOX-FM there were two teams in particular “that will go to our roster and sign double or triple what these guys can make on our roster and make them backups on their roster, so we can’t have them.”

But the former Super Bowl-winning quarterback and ESPN analyst emphasized in the interview he was not going to name those two teams. But, Tulane coach Jon Sumrall took a different approach with Dilfer’s comments.

Through his X (formerly Twitter) account, Sumrall reshared a clip of Dilfer’s appearance Tuesday and tagged the social media accounts of Memphis coach Ryan Silverfield and South Florida coach Alex Golesh. Sumrall also included eyeball and wink emojis for his thinly-veiled response.

Add tweet-baiting opposing coaches about money problems to the many ways in which college football has changed now that the players are being paid and recruiting is increasingly just free agency on steroids.

But this social media kerfuffle does highlight another layer of separation occurring between the haves and have nots within college football. While the growing divide among the power conferences and the Group of Five leagues is a frequent topic of discussion as college sports become more professionalized, there also appears to be a chasm developing within certain non-power conferences based on how much schools are willing and able to spend.

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Publish date : 2025-01-14 21:51:00

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