Former Calhoun High School quarterback Tre Lamb was hired as the next head football coach at East Tennessee State University, the school’s website confirmed Monday afternoon.
“I am very excited that Tre Lamb is going to lead our program into the future,” ETSU Director of Athletics Dr. Richard Sander stated on the website. “We completed a very extensive and wide-ranging search. The amount of interest spoke volumes about what very successful coaches think about the potential of ETSU football. As we vetted candidates and talked to people in the inner circle of college football, it became very clear that Tre Lamb was one the most exciting, young successful coaches in the country.
“For me, it was extremely important to have someone with successful head coaching experience and who knows how to recruit at our level and be able to navigate the transfer portal. Coach Lamb has done both. He checks every box that I created when I was developing the right profile. Everybody needs to get on board because great things are ahead for ETSU football.”
Lamb was a first-team all-state selection for Calhoun in 2007 after passing for 2,232 yards and 27 touchdowns. Playing for his father, Hal, he posted a 21-4 overall record as a starter and was part of a 23-year postseason run by the Yellow Jackets.
After playing collegiately at Tennessee Tech University, Tre Lamb became the quarterbacks coach in Cookeville in 2103, then served the same role at Mercer from 2014-17, where he helped coach one of his Calhoun successors, Kaelan Riley, to the Southern Conference Freshman of the Year honors in 2017.