Education
Lamb attended Commerce High School in Commerce, Georgia, from 1978 to 1981, where he played quarterback.
Lamb attended Commerce High School in Commerce, Georgia, from 1978 to 1981, where he played quarterback.
He is the head football coach at Mercer University, a position he assumed in 2011 when Mercer reinstated their footall program after a 70-year hiatus. The Mercer Bears football program resumed play in 2013. Lamb served as the head football coach at the Furman University from 2002 until his resignation in 2010.
He led the team to the 1981 Associate of Arts State Championship and was named The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"s Associate of Arts Back of the Year.
Lamb played quarterback for the Paladins, from 1982 to 1985, where he was a two-year starter. During Lamb"s playing career the Paladins defeated three National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A teams: South Carolina (1982), Georgia Technical (1983), and North Carolina State (1984 and 1985).
Furman finished the season as runners-up for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-Associate of Arts Football Championship, losing the title game to Georgia Southern. He became the quarterbacks coach in 1989, a position filled until taking over head coaching duties in 2002.
In November 2010, he announced he was resigning at Furman after his teams had missed the playoffs four straight years.
On January 20, 2011, Lamb was announced be the first modern head football coach for Mercer University, which began playing football in 2013 after the sport"s 70-year absence from campus. Lamb has a brother, Hal, who is the head football coach and athletic director at Calhoun High School in Calhoun, Georgia. Lamb is active in bringing about public awareness of shoulder Cleidocranial dysplasia.