Vanderbilt football gained bowl eligibility for the first time under Clark Lea with its 17-7 win over Auburn at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday. It was a big moment for a program that hadn't made a ...
Sure, it's fun now. But it wasn't that way last December. Back then, ClarkLea was in the most difficult stretch of his coaching career. His Vanderbilt football tenure was on the ropes.
It earned him SEC Offensive Player of the Week honors and put him in the conference lead for rushing yards. Beyond the accolades, it creates heightened levels of preparation for his opponents, but ...
ClarkLea made it through one sentence of his opening statement before choking up. "A great night for our program, and one that we've worked really hard to make happen. So we've been emotional to ...