Trent Dilfer observed using phone on sidelines of Neyland Stadium
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Trent Dilfer is in his third season as the head coach at UAB, and the former quarterback played at Fresno State and in the NFL for many years, even winning a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens.
So, the 53-year-old Dilfer has been around the game for seemingly forever. That’s what made Saturday’s occurrence at Neyland Stadium so strange. Dilfer’s Blazers were already in a tough situation, facing high-octane Tennessee on its home field and coming off a heartbreaking loss to Georgia.
Dilfer’s team was likely going to be scrambling once the game got going — and sure enough, UAB was doing plenty of scrambling once the game got started, giving up 42 points in the first half and trailing 56-17 in the fourth quarter. But what about what happened with Dilfer before the scrambling — and suffering — even started?
That’s when Dilfer was caught using his phone. Yes, that’s right, a head coach of a college football team using his own phone as his team was getting ready to kick it off against the 15th-ranked team in the country.
Here is the proof provided by journalist Kevin Scarbinsky, who captured the weird moment right before the 12:45 p.m. ET kickoff:
Whatever Dilfer was up to, it didn’t work that well, with UAB on its way to falling to 2-2 as the predictable blowout ensued at Neyland Stadium.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
