Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The UAB Blazers college football team represents the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). The program began in the 1991 season and spent two years as a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III independent before transferring to Division II. After just three years in Division II, the school entered Division I-A, now known as the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). During this twenty-four year period, the Blazers had five head coaches. In January 2014, Bill Clark was hired to coach the program. However, following the end of Clark's first season, in which he led the team to its second-ever bowl-eligible record, UAB President Ray L. Watts announced the cancellation of the football program, due to financial strains. After media condemnation of the decision and millions of dollars in fundraising, on June 1, 2015, Watts announced the school would reinstate football as early as the 2016 season. Clark remains head coach through the 2016 season, despite the cancellation.The school adopted the nickname \"Blazers\" for its sports programs in 1978, in preparation for the basketball program's inaugural season. On January 13 of that year, a campus election selected the name with about 50% of 2600-person vote of students, professors, and administration. The nickname was selected over the options of Barons, Warriors, or Titans. After two different mascots, the nickname became representative of Blaze the Dragon, the school's mascot since the 1995 season. The Blazers played in 273 games during the twenty-four seasons before the cancellation. In those seasons, Watson Brown was the only coach to lead the team to a postseason game, the 2004 Hawaii Bowl. None of UAB's coaches has been enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame and no coach has led them to a national championship.Jim Hilyer, the program's first coach, is the all-time leader in win percentage, at .683 from a record of 27–12–2. Garrick McGee has the lowest win percentage, at just .208 and a record of 5–19. Watson Brown served the longest time as head coach at twelve years, and leads in number of games coached (136), number of games won (62), and number of games lost (74). Bill Clark has served the shortest time of any coach, at just one year, and has coached the fewest games (12). Among conference play, Brown leads in conference win percentage at .508. He also leads in conference games played (59), conference games won (30), and conference games lost (29)."@en }
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- List_of_UAB_Blazers_head_football_coaches abstract "The UAB Blazers college football team represents the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). The program began in the 1991 season and spent two years as a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III independent before transferring to Division II. After just three years in Division II, the school entered Division I-A, now known as the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). During this twenty-four year period, the Blazers had five head coaches. In January 2014, Bill Clark was hired to coach the program. However, following the end of Clark's first season, in which he led the team to its second-ever bowl-eligible record, UAB President Ray L. Watts announced the cancellation of the football program, due to financial strains. After media condemnation of the decision and millions of dollars in fundraising, on June 1, 2015, Watts announced the school would reinstate football as early as the 2016 season. Clark remains head coach through the 2016 season, despite the cancellation.The school adopted the nickname \"Blazers\" for its sports programs in 1978, in preparation for the basketball program's inaugural season. On January 13 of that year, a campus election selected the name with about 50% of 2600-person vote of students, professors, and administration. The nickname was selected over the options of Barons, Warriors, or Titans. After two different mascots, the nickname became representative of Blaze the Dragon, the school's mascot since the 1995 season. The Blazers played in 273 games during the twenty-four seasons before the cancellation. In those seasons, Watson Brown was the only coach to lead the team to a postseason game, the 2004 Hawaii Bowl. None of UAB's coaches has been enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame and no coach has led them to a national championship.Jim Hilyer, the program's first coach, is the all-time leader in win percentage, at .683 from a record of 27–12–2. Garrick McGee has the lowest win percentage, at just .208 and a record of 5–19. Watson Brown served the longest time as head coach at twelve years, and leads in number of games coached (136), number of games won (62), and number of games lost (74). Bill Clark has served the shortest time of any coach, at just one year, and has coached the fewest games (12). Among conference play, Brown leads in conference win percentage at .508. He also leads in conference games played (59), conference games won (30), and conference games lost (29).".