Although he tried, Hal Lamb knew there wasn’t much he could say or do to prevent his son Tre from following in his footsteps when it came to a career choice.
After all, coaching is the family business for the Lambs, so much that it seems to be in the blood.
Hal’s father Ray won three Georgia High School Association football state titles as a head coach — two at Warren County and one at Commerce — and Hal replicated the feat at Calhoun, where he spent 20 of his 22 seasons in a prep coaching career in which he won more than 82% of his games.
Hal’s brother Bobby has coached in NCAA Division I’s Football Championship Subdivision ranks at Southern Conference schools Furman and Mercer and is now the head coach at Anderson University, a Division II program in South Carolina, while sister Lynn was a tennis coach at Calhoun.
As for Hal’s attempts to dissuade his son, those were ultimately futile as Tre, who played quarterback for his father at Calhoun before a successful career at Tennessee Tech, hopped into the industry anyway, first as an offensive coordinator at his collegiate alma mater before becoming a head coach, leading at Gardner-Webb for four years before taking over at SoCon member East Tennessee State University ahead of this season.