The Vanderbilt line was vastly improved from its group the season prior, but it left enough to be desired down the stretch ...

Vandy on SI caught up with Lea for an exclusive interview in which he discussed Hight's role as a receiver and a cornerback ...

It’s Mar. 27 and everything is stopped, Vanderbilt’s entire team is kneeling on the grass practice field around Clark Lea.

Vanderbilt Commodores head football coach Clark Lea and three players will head Atlanta next week for the Southeastern ...

As much as Clark Lea wanted to build his program solely on culture and development, he quickly realized that doing that ...

Clark Lea is on the way out at Notre Dame just as his defense has been on the way up. The 38-year-old Lea, a Tennessee native, was named head coach at alma mater Vanderbilt on Monday. Before he ...

Clark Lea is not unfamiliar with being a defensive coordinator. It is, after all, the position he held for three years at Notre Dame before taking the head job with Vanderbilt football.. But what ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Clark Lea had his headset on until the end, a fitting finish to a rivalry episode and season that were both ridiculous. Vanderbilt was locked in on defense, ...

Lea figures he spent about 100 hours a week in his previous job, as Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator, and was trying to do 50 hours just as a Vandy’s DC and devote the rest to his actual job.

That was Clark." So much so that Lea was coordinating UCLA's defense at age 28 in the first Pac-12 Championship Game at Oregon in 2011. That was not known until now.

Clark Lea is not unfamiliar with being a defensive coordinator. It is, after all, the position he held for three years at Notre Dame before taking the head job with Vanderbilt football.

Clark III was born in August 2012, when Lea was working as linebackers coach at Bowling Green. Lea had arranged with then-head coach Dave Clawson to go be with his wife Allison when his son was born.