UAB head coach Trent Dilfer warns against transfer portal tampering: ‘It’s cheating’

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Trent Dilfer is preparing for his first year as head coach of a college football program, and the former NFL quarterback is not holding back. 

At American Football Media Days on Tuesday, Dilfer dished on the current state of college football as head coach of UAB. 

Lipscomb Academy head coach Trent Dilfer defeats CPA 42-0 to win the Division II Class AA State Football Championship at Finley Stadium, Dec. 1, 2022, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (George Walker IV/The Tennessean/USA Today Network)

Dilfer expanded on his June comments when he "dared" coaches to try and poach his UAB players through the combination of the transfer portal and NIL.

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"It’s cheating. To coerce a player off a roster – whether you do it through a third person, whether you do it through an agent, a collective – no matter how you do it, it’s cheating. It’s against the rules," Dilfer told reporters Tuesday. "So, let’s go attack that." 

Dilfer emphasized that he has no issue with any of his players entering the transfer portal, but he does have a major problem if other programs try to get his players to enter the portal. 

"But don’t have a scouting department in your building that’s doing cut-ups of my players and then going and coercing them to enter the portal when they had no idea, they didn’t want to enter the portal," Dilfer continued. "That’s the problem I’m addressing. And I’m not going to stop. 

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Trent Dilfer said he has no issue with his players entering the transfer portal, but he does have a major problem if