“As a person comes through there, you can take a lot of pride in the things that were accomplished, but you also realize you’re a small part in a big machine, a historical machine, and it will probably continue to have success. “One of the cool things about BYU and my experience is that they were winning before I got there and then we won while I was there and then they won when I left and started coaching at other places and then when I came back we won again,” Lamb said. He played under legendary coach LaVelle Edwards, including a 14-1 record and top-five finish in 1996. “I enjoyed my time at Southern Utah and I knew I would enjoy any head coaching opportunity.”īYU is a part of Lamb's DNA from his coaching days - and from his playing days, when he was part of successful teams. “I didn’t really realize how much I was missing being a head coach until I actually stepped into the role,” Lamb said. Why now, though, did Lamb choose to be a head coach again? He said he’s interviewed and been a finalist for jobs in the Mountain West like New Mexico and Hawaii, but wondered to himself why he was only looking for FBS jobs. I certainly think that’s true at BYU with the expectations that they have for the program and how that doesn’t quite match where they fit on the recruiting ladder and I think it’s true here.” “If you’re lower on the recruiting food chain ladder, it’s important that player development be your mantra. “Everything we did was about player development. “He was the first head coach that I worked for that talked about it obsessively,” Lamb said. Southern Utah coach Ed Lamb watches from the sidelines as his team takes on Washington State during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. His blueprint is one he used to guide Southern Utah to a Big Sky championship in the program’s fourth season as a member. That's a sharp contrast to the philosophy of McCaffrey over the Broncos legend's two seasons in Greeley - and what Deion Sanders has preached in rebuilding the CU Buffs in Boulder.īut Lamb, who comes to UNC after seven seasons as the assistant head coach to Kilani Sitake at BYU, feels he doesn’t need to emulate the hot trend. “I look at transfer students with a pretty skeptical eye because for one reason or another, maybe justified or not, they did not like the place that they were at and there’s not a lot of extrinsic motivation to being a football player at UNC.”
I’m looking for guys who are 100% grateful to be right here. I understand that there’s a role on every team for everybody that’s willing to work hard and commit to a cause. I’ve been at those spots, I’ve coached at the Power 5 level. “The idea that I would be swayed or somehow motivated to gather a group of players that things aren’t working out at the place that they’re already at. “I reject the idea that there's a significant difference in the talent level of somebody playing FBS or Power 5 football and somebody playing FCS football,” Lamb told The Denver Gazette.
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