Starting From Scratch

Pete Fredenburg teaches Mary Hardin-Baylor to swim in the deep end
by: Everett Starling
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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 tr....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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