Photos from the reception for Alabama-Birmingham Coach Bill Clark, winner of the 2018 FWAA Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award. The reception was on Jan. 5, 2019, at the San Jose Marriott.

Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year bust. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

FWAA Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award receipient Bill Clark meets the media at reception at San Jose Marriott. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

Eddie Robinson III (left) confers with UAB’s Bill Clark. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

Sugar Bowl President Rod West makes the Eddie Robinson Bust presentation. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

Eddie Robinson IV (left) and Eddie Robinson III (right) pose with the FWAA Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Bust. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

( L-R) FWAA Executive Director Steve Richardson, Eddie Robinson III, UAB Coach Bill Clark and Sugar Bowl President Rod West. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

(L-R) Sugar Bowl’s Jeff Hundley, FWAA’s Margaret Mason and FWAA Past President and Bert McGrane recipient Tony Barnhart. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

FWAA members Doug Kelly (center) and Mark Purdy (right) along with Kelly’s wife at the FWAA Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year reception. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

UAB Athletic Director Mark Ingram and Sugar Bowl President Rod West. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year commemorative football. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

2018 Coach of the Year, UAB’s Bill Clark, with Eddie Robinson bust. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

Eddie Robinson III engages Sugar Bowl CEO Paul Hoolahan, who will retire in June after a highly successful 20-plus year run at the New Orleans-based bowl. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

Crowd at the reception on Jan. 5, 2019 at the San Jose Marriott. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

CoSIDA’s Doug Vance (left) and San Jose State’s Lawrence Fan (right) at the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year reception. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

The College Football Playoff’s Alfred White and the NFF’s Matt Sign enjoy a moment at the reception. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

Sugar Bowl COO Jeff Hundley (left) and Conference USA’s Russ Anderson (right). (Photo by Melissa Macatee)

The program for the 2018 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award. (Photo by Melissa Macatee)