Pete Lembo
Pete Lembo
Peter Lembois an American football coach and former player. He is currently the assistant head football coach and special teams coordinator at University of Maryland, a position he assumed in December 2015. Prior to coming to Maryland, he was the head football coach at Lehigh University from 2001 to 2005, at Elon University from 2005 to 2010, and at Ball State University from 2011 to 2015...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 April 1970
conference league southern top
Without question, this is a very challenging schedule. The Southern Conference is an outstanding league from top to bottom.
excited home job pleased solid
I'm pleased with his development, and he's done a solid job academically, as well. And I know he's excited to go back to his home state.
deserve game won
We won a game that we probably didn't deserve to win.
athletic attacked awful football gave last million money people recruiting spent team
At Lehigh, we gave out over $2 million in need-based athletic scholarships, need-based being the key, on our football team last year. We spent as much money as an awful lot of people do on scholarships and attacked recruiting in the very same way you would here.
call clear judgment
It was as clear as it gets. It was not a judgment call whatsoever.
execute missed upset
It didn't upset me. I was upset that we didn't execute the play. I was upset that we missed a tackle.
team years coaching
Every year is different and every team is different. Your talent is different, how it gets is different, your leadership is different. That's one of the things that I really enjoy about it [coaching] - trying to maximize the potential of your team relative to how it changes every year.
fun team guy
I really try hard to keep a good bead on the pulse of the team. Am I pushing the right buttons? When do I need to be harder on them? When do I need to have a little more fun with them? It's all about timing. The more I can do that the better chance we have for these guys to be hitting on all cylinders and reach their potential.
player thinking underestimate
That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the coaches.
believe culture different
The one thing I will say is management is management. Culture is culture. You have to have a formula for those things. You have to believe in what you do and how you do it, but then you go to different environments and you have to be willing to adapt. You have to be willing to tweak things based on where you are.
sports football views
I always approached the sport from a more cerebral, analytical point of view, a management perspective. I was taking all business classes there at Georgetown, I really enjoyed that. I always sort of looked at football from that perspective.