Greenfield finished the 2020 campaign 8-2 before losing in the playoffs. It was the first region championship for the Yellowjackets since 1986.
Pitt was part of Hugh Freeze’s coaching staff at Lambuth from 2008-09. He served as offensive line coach. Indiana head coach Tom Allen was also on staff at Lambuth as defensive coordinator and overseeing linebackers.
“He could take a room full of young men and it wouldn’t take long until everybody in the room was bought in, 100 percent and ready to go to war,” Pitt said of Freeze. “He was a great leader that way of getting everybody to believe. It was one of the greatest things that I saw him do.”
Vols Wire analyzed Freeze’s three-man surface offense.
“I will never change what we do offensively. I don’t know all but what we’ve done, it’s had success everywhere we’ve been. It’s what I am familiar with and what I feel comfortable calling the game with, so we’re doing the same stuff.” — Hugh Freeze on the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days”
“It was a good thing that I got to spend those two years with those good coaches and learn so much,” Pitt said of his time at Lambuth. “I carry things that I learned from them many years ago and we’re still doing them at Greenfield, and I know Coach Freeze is still doing them at Liberty.
“The game has changed a lot, but it is still some principles and sort of the same type of offense, calls and things of that nature that I still see on game day through them, and then things that we are still doing at Greenfield.”
The entire show with Pitt can be listened to here or below.
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