No matter what level of football you’re coaching or playing, it’s hard enough to maintain a successful program these days. From high school to Division I to even the NFL, there are budgets, injuries, ever-growing parity with technology and those inevitable peaks and valleys. That’s talking about established programs. What’s it like to try to create all of those things programs strive for: fans, top-tier talent, tradition and of course, wins, from scratch? Six seasons into such an endeavor, Pete Fredenburg of Division III Mary Hardin-Baylor can offer some answers. When he was hired at the Central Texas school, there was no staff, no field house and not a single helmet or goal post. Now, there’s a program 130 players strong off two straight trips to the NCAA playoffs and an American Southwest Conference crown. “Now obviously, it wasn’t an easy task. I don’t know that I’d
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