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Clark Lea

Current Position

Head Coach

Salary

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Salary

$3,711,137

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Alma MaterVanderbilt/ 2004

DegreePolitical Science

Age44

High SchoolMontgomery Bell Academy

HometownNashville, TN

Agent:

Jimmy Sexton

CAA

Also Representing

HC/

/Age: 50/$13.3M

Lea News

Kenny Minchey-Chaz Coleman-South Carolina baseball-SEC spring meetings intel notes

Intel from SEC spring meetings: Updates on South Carolina baseball search, Tennessee's Chaz Coleman & more

Pete Nakos•05/29/26

CBS Sports ranks every SEC coach entering the 2026 season

Steve Samra•05/27/26

Jared Curtis-Vanderbilt Commodores-Vanderbilt football

QB Jared Curtis flipped to Vanderbilt and Clark Lea says none of it happens without Diego Pavia

Pete Nakos•05/27/26

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SEC coaches say they were misled about nine-game schedule and 16-team playoff

Brett McMurphy•05/27/26

Dillon Davis St. John Bosco

Dillon Davis: One team surging ahead of decision for top safety

Adam Gorney•05/24/26

USATSI_27705066 (1)

Clark Lea on potential CFP expansion to 24 teams: 'We all expected it'

Nick Kosko•05/13/26

Coaching History

Vanderbilt

Head Coach2021 - present

Notre Dame

Defensive Coordinator2018 - 2020

Notre Dame

Linebackers Coach2017 - 2017

Wake Forest

Linebackers Coach2016 - 2016

Syracuse

Linebackers Coach2013 - 2015

Bowling Green

Linebackers Coach2012 - 2012

UCLA

Linebackers Coach2010 - 2011

UCLA

Graduate Assistant2009 - 2009