UAB football coach Bill Clark will reportedly not accept a coaching job this season, choosing instead to remain in the state retirement system and hope for the program’s return, per AL.com. UAB’s players were told the program would be shutting down back in December due to financial concerns.
UAB head coach holding out hope football program can return
Bill Clark will not take a coaching job this season.
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Clark says he’s been offered multiple opportunities this offseason, but will instead spend his time visiting college programs like Oregon and some NFL teams, he says. If the UAB program returns, he said there’s a “definite possibility” he would take the head coaching position again.
“There’s a glimmer of hope for me and a lot of folks,” Clark told AL.com. “I love Birmingham and I love the state of Alabama, but a lot of things would have to happen, and it would have to be done correctly.”
A task force was recently formed to conduct an independent review into the report that ended up getting the program shut down, and (surprise!) it has found UAB probably won’t play football next season. The program may be able to return in 2016, but with more than 40 players already transferred out, it could prove difficult.
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