It’s time for football again.
The Clark Lea era begins tonight at 7:00 PM CT, under very different circumstances than the last time a Vanderbilt head football coach made his debut. That game was a Thursday night game, moved there to showcase the then-new SEC Network, and Vanderbilt was coming off a 9-4 season, deserving of a national audience.
Lea, on the other hand, will start his head coaching career in anonymity, in a Saturday night game on the SEC Network+, coaching a team coming off an 0-9 season against an FCS opponent, a game that only the diehards will watch.