When I was 10 years old, my family moved to the Greenville, S.C. area. Clemson, South Carolina and this I-AA school named Furman were all good that year, in 1985.
I quickly learned the names of the best players, and one of them was Furman's quarterback, Bobby Lamb — and today he's the head coach at Mercer. I caught up with him Wednesday, ahead of his team's big conference showdown with his alma mater.
PODCAST: Mercer head coach Bobby Lamb talks to HERO Sports' Brian McLaughlin
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That year, 1985, Lamb led the Purple Paladins, as we called them, to the national championship game and I watched a shootout on television in December, with Georgia Southern edging the Paladins. Since then, Lamb has been an assistant coach at Furman, a successful head coach there, and now he has helped get the Mercer program up and running for the first time since the 1940s.
We talked about his Furman days, building a program back to prominence, and what it's like to play Auburn and Alabama in the same season — something even Georgia and Florida aren't doing this year.
PODCAST: Mercer head coach Bobby Lamb talks to HERO Sports' Brian McLaughlin
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