Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Charlotte |
Conference | C-USA |
Record | 16–30 |
Annual salary | $600,000 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Hoxie, Kansas |
January 14, 1965
Playing career | |
1983–1986 | Kansas State |
Position(s) | Defensive back |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1988–1989 | Oklahoma (GA) |
1990–1995 | Marshall (assistant) |
1996–1999 | Georgia (Assistant) |
2000 | Georgia (DB) |
2001–2007 | Wake Forest (Assistant) |
2008–2010 | Wake Forest (DC/DB) |
2011–present | Charlotte |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 16–30 |
Brad Lambert (born January 14, 1965) is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the Charlotte 49ers; who began play in the Football Championship Subdivision of Division I in 2013, and moved up to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2015, when the program joined the rest of the 49ers' sports in programs in Conference USA.
Lambert played defensive back for the Kansas State Wildcats, lettering for four straight seasons and graduating in 1987. He earned second-team all-Big Eight honors his freshman season. He also was an all-Big Eight Academic choice from 1984 to 1986.
Lambert began his coaching career as a graduate assistant with the Oklahoma Sooners.
His first assistant coaching position was under head coach Jim Donnan with the Marshall Thundering Herd from 1990 to 1995. While at Marshall, Lambert participated in four NCAA Division I Football Championship Games with Marshall winning the 1992 NCAA Division I Football Championship.
He continued to work for Coach Donnan when the latter became head coach for the Georgia Bulldogs, coaching there from 1996 to 2000. At Georgia Lambert coached in the 1998 Outback Bowl, the 1998 Peach Bowl, the 2000 Outback Bowl and the 2000 Oahu Bowl. Georgia compiled a 40–19 record during Lambert's time with the Bulldogs.