University of Alabama-Birmingham football coach Bill Clark spent a couple months following the death of his program in late 2014 finding his assistant coaches other jobs and his players other places to play.
With just about everyone else accounted for, it was time for Clark, who had spent his entire successful 25-year coaching career in Alabama, to assess his future, and the coaching offers started rolling in. Many of them were attractive positions.
But Clark, despite being a coach without a program, waited. None of those offers “felt right,” and there was something stirring in Birmingham.
“I really wanted to see what happened here,” Clark said Wednesday.