Tre Lamb Hired As ETSU Head Football Coach- What It Means

An insight as to who the next athletic director will be was shown with this hire

Marky Billson

As I’ve said many times before, East Tennessee State always likes to overrate themselves.

This is a program that once hung a banner up for their men’s basketball team commemorating the one week in 1991 they were ranked №10 in the nation.

They say they play in “God’s Country” and they have the best environment in the SoCon.

Few who have ever been to a football game at The Citadel would suggest the military showmanship at Johnson Hagood Stadium is inferior to the buzz of “How are the Vols doin’?” that goes around the Bucs’ yard during a Saturday afternoon in the fall, but, ultimately, no matter what, ETSU has to tell you everything associated with them is incredible, if not sensational.

So what the hire of former Gardner-Webb football coach Tre Lamb does is give ETSU a chance to crow on modest achievements again.

I honestly think Lamb will improve the football program to a degree but boy, I’m getting some serious “Coach Doogie Howser” vibes off this photo, aren’t you?

For even at the nadir of their football program, the Bucs have taken away a young coach from a neighboring FCS program! They’ve prevented him from even looking at his…