Chad Lunsford, Georgia Southern Head Football Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Episode 357
Chad Lunsford is the head football coach at Georgia Southern. The 2019 campaign marks the 11th season overall, and seventh in his current stint at Georgia Southern. Lunsford was promoted from assistant head coach to interim head coach on Oct. 22, 2017. He was named the 10th full-time head coach in the modern era on Nov. 27, 2017.
In 2018, he led the Eagles to the biggest turnaround in the FBS, from two wins in 2017 to a 10-3 finish in 2018 including a Racom Media Camellia Bowl win over Eastern Michigan 23-21.
In 2019, his club opens the season on August 31 at LSU and has a road game at Minnesota on September 14 before embarking on a tough Sun Belt Conference schedule.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Coach Lunsford about the turnaround his club had last year and preparing for this upcoming 2019 season. We also hear his powerful testimony of faith, the daily disciplines he instills to his team and how his priorities got out of order during his early coaching days.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
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| 0:22.0 | I'm Jason Romano. |
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| 1:18.0 | Today on the podcast, we welcome Georgia Southern head football coach Chad Lunsford to the program. |
| 1:25.0 | Now, Chad has been the head coach since 2017, came to Georgia Southern in |
| 1:30.3 | 2013, came back actually to Georgia Southern in 2013 as the receivers coach, tight ends coach, |
| 1:37.7 | special teams coach, and now he is the head man, signed a contract extension in January of |
| 1:43.5 | 2019, taking him through the |
| 1:46.0 | 2023 season. Lunsford led Georgia Southern to the biggest turnaround in the FBS last year, |
| 1:54.3 | from two wins in 2017 to a 10 and 3 finish in 2018, including a Raycom Media Camelia Bowl win over Eastern Michigan |
| 2:05.5 | on a last second field goal, 23 to 21. That's a huge deal when you go from two wins to coming |
| 2:12.1 | back the next year and winning a bowl game and winning 10 games total. That's an awesome job. |
| 2:19.2 | But Chad Lunsford is more than a football coach. |
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