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Sleep and relaxation took a backseat to helping build UAB's recruiting class


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The next step came complete with a lot of coffee and little sleep. It began not long after Dilfer’s Lipscomb Academy team won its second straight Tennessee state championship. Dilfer and his wife, Cassandra, drove to Birmingham from Chattanooga. Cassandra dropped Trent off at the Football Operations Center and he met up with Henderson inside.

“We sat down and watched them all,” Henderson said. “I mean we watched every single one in his first night, especially defense. We had a board of probably 50-something kids. We watched them all.”

Dilfer said they took the recruits and ranked them.

“Tristan did a great job of setting a preliminary board for me,” Dilfer said. “My first look was always kind of a reach guy. That first night, every guy we looked at was probably a reach guy, based on who we are. We rank them 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3. One is they’re going to Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, USC, Michigan, now. Those are the 1s, 1.5, now, they’re a reach, but, you know we might be in play here. Two is high UAB guys, 2.5s are probably Group of 5 guys. Three is probably what you’d call a fall back to a preferred walk on. I watched nothing but 1s and 1.5s the first night.”

The work went until the early hours of the morning. A few hours of sleep were followed by more recruiting work. Potential recruits were added, others were taken off. The board grew to about 90 players. Dilfer said each time they watched tape, it began with prospects from the state of Alabama. Eventually, they chose a top 10 at each position.

 

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