The three captains of Wareham High School’s football team are all very confident about the upcoming season, and there’s a big reason why.

“We really trust in the program happening now” said Jordan Phillips, one of the captains. “We trust in the coaches.”

The Vikings have a new football coach this year, and he comes with a lot of experience.

Bob Lomp began coaching at Apponequet Regional High School when he was 27-years old, shortly after graduating from the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. In his 19 years there, he said he’s never had a losing season. His career record is 114-37. Lomp was also a math teacher and head baseball coach at the school.

“I left teaching as well to pursue private business; I’m a contractor,” he said. “I thought I was going to give it all up.”

Lomp didn’t coach for all of 2015, and he missed it more than he thought would. So he cleared his schedule, found the posting for the Wareham job, and applied.

The football team has practiced for a few days now, and Lomp is “very excited about the players.”

“My only concern is that we still have very low numbers,” he said. “I want to build up the participation.”

Lomp said because the high school is getting smaller in enrollment, the team is losing players.

“That’s a huge challenge for me and my staff.”

There are 42 players on the team from grades 9 through 12, which is “pretty low,” said Lomp. He thinks that it’ll take a couple years and a couple of good seasons for the numbers to start climbing.

Wareham football has had rough seasons in the past. Last year, the team’s record was 4-7. Though Lomp said he doesn’t want to put a win-loss goal on the team and simply wants to focus on making the playoffs, senior captains Ryan Almeida, Brian Judge, and Phillips hope to reverse that trend, at least they said, this year.

They explained that their three years in the program, so far, have been a roller coaster.

“I feel like we’ve had potential,” said Judge, adding on that team morale seems to get lost when things go wrong during games.

This year seems to be different, said Phillips.

“It already looks better than it ever has before.”

Their first game is on Sept. 9 at Old Rochester Regional at 7 p.m. Their first home game is against Seekonk on Sept. 23 at 7 p.m.