![]() “UAB football, the struggle, the fight, all the things it’s taken us to get to this point, … to see all these people that came together, it’s like bringing our program back. “This is different, it really is,” Clark said. But Saturday might be the newest peak of the return, as UAB opens Protective Stadium, a $200 million, 45,000-seat football stadium, capping a remarkable five-year revival of a program left for dead. The team has been in a gorgeous football operations building for a few years now, and only a couple of players on the team remember a year without games. Since the program was shut down in 2014, resurrected and returned to the field in 2017, the Blazers have won two Conference USA championships and became the first team in league history to win three consecutive division titles. UAB football has been “back” for years now. It was hard not to be excited about what was coming. He’d check out the live camera on the website. ![]() Bill Clark would often drive by the tractors.
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