BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- When they received word that UAB football was coming back, Lee Dufour and Nick Vogel -- best friends and former roommates at the school -- could not wait to share the news with each other.
Unfortunately, they heard about it at the exact same time.
"Literally the second that they announced football's coming back, I called him and at the same time, he called me. The calls didn't go through," Dufour said, recalling the moment last June when UAB reversed its decision from December 2014 to drop its football program. "I was like, 'Yes, we have to go back.