NOTE: This feature on the Memphis staff changes for 2019 first appeared in the Sept. 7 Memphis Football GameDay program when the Tigers hosted Southern.
Pete Lembo has enjoyed three stints as a college head football coach and two others as an associate head coach. It makes Lembo, one of seven first-year assistants for the University of Memphis this fall, qualified to understand the inherent challenges a coach faces assembling a new group of highly driven individuals.
As Lembo has encountered in his head coaching past, bringing together a large number of assistants at one time can be prove problematic, unless the process is handled with care and a nod to the personalities involved.