Was Trent Dilfer's warning to other coaches contradictory?

Trent Dilfer went on the Rick & Bubba show and sent a stern warning to opposing coaches.

He said ""By the way, come try to get my guys," Dilfer said. "I dare you, Power Fives. I got a pretty big platform that I can step on, and if I find you in my kids' DMs, and if I find you talking to high school coaches about my kids -- if you're in my roster, I'm gonna call your ass out. I'm going to say it, by name, to the biggest voices in television today and it's going to make [College] GameDay and it's going to make SportsCenter. By the way, those guys running SportsCenter are still my friends."

"So go ahead. I dare you to jump into my roster. I told the American [Athletic Conference] coaches the same thing. I said, 'Why don't you guys have the you-know-whats to stand up and say get out of my roster?' I said here's why: 'cause you want their job. I want this job. I don't want no Power -- I want this job. I want to live in Birmingham. I want to live downtown. I want to go see my grandson in Nashville. I don't want that other job, so I don't care if you blackball me. I want this job. I want the city of Birmingham to say, 'No. That's our city. That's our coach.' So, go ahead. I'm not scared of whoever -- the Grand Poobah of Poobahs -- to blackball me. Like, get out of my roster. These are my guys. I love these guys. Stay the hell out of it."

That was a lot, and he was pretty fired up about it. But it kinda sends a different signal than what he said just 19 days prior, when he was talking to Andy Wittry from On3.com about NIL money at UAB. He said on June 4th that schools like UAB should be using NIL money for retention, not going to try and buy new players.

But here's the issue... he stated in that interview "I'm not competing against Tulane and UTSA for retention. I'm competing against Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, etc, right? That's who I'm competing against. So how can I say - if they can offer $400,000, do I need to even offer $50,000? So do you even try to retain that player? If you develop a player and he's good enough to make that type of money at a program that would be perceived up from us - economically, for sure - well, as a player-centric coach, isn't it my job to encourage him to take that money if he doesn't hurt his chances of making generational wealth at the next level? And there lies the kicker."

Seems almost like he's contradicting himself, right?

Dilfer has never been a college coach at any level or any position. He was a high school coach just last season. So I know it's going to take some getting used to for him... but this feels like somebody explained the tampering rules to him and he got all excited about it and then went to do a radio interview and started foaming at the mouth.

UAB is still attempting to figure out their place in the world of college football. The school didn't have a football program 7 years ago. Then they brought it back and Bill Clark managed to win 2 C-USA championships in the 6 seasons after they came back to life... but the AAC is a different animal. What does college football even look like in a few years? I imagine we'll see less of this from Dilfer once he's actually had a chance to coach a game... but who knows.

From Saturday 6/24/23 full show: https://youtu.be/fq_sI06x8iQ

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