Thoughts on ETSU Football Coach Tre Lamb at Southern Conference Media Days

My initial thoughts are he’s thinking of ETSU as a stepping stone (who doesn’t) but isn’t a real lover of the media.

East Tennessee State football will be improved this season.

Because they can’t possibly be worse.

The question is how much they will improve. Only picked sixth at Southern Conference media days, an easy assumption is a 1–3 record against non-conference competition (Elon is nationally ranked in many FCS preseason polls) with victories in league play against the military schools and Wofford as they are picked beneath the Bucs.

That’s 4–7. Not satisfying, but an improvement from 3–8.

But new head coach Tre Lamb brings 20 players with him from FCS playoff participant Gardner-Webb. And while the Southern Conference has always looked down at the Big South, and against common opponents the Bulldogs didn’t fare much better than the Buccaneers did in dropping contests to Austin Peay and Mercer, there is the feeling adding 20 players from a playoff team and a year’s worth of their physical maturity is a recipe for a quick fix.

Lamb’s career record is 20–20, but 18–13 against the FCS.

So maybe the Bucs have been picked low. It’s going to be a lot to ask them to challenge the elite of the conference and FCS, let alone Appalachian State, following…