ColumnistLess than four years ago, Bill Clark was the football coach at the University of Alabama-Birmingham when his program was killed. Wednesday, he spoke as the football coach of a UAB team that was 5-1 overall and 3-0 in Conference USA heading into a homecoming game Saturday against a 6-1 North Texas team. “He said to me, ‘Bill, we need UAB football to come back,’ ” Clark remembered. “It’s important for the conference.”That was nice to hear, but conference rules dictated that if UAB didn’t have a football program on July 1, it would be expelled. UAB football returned last September and the Blazers went 8-5, earning a bid to the Bahamas Bowl.

Source: Washington Post October 17, 2018 21:28 UTC