2020/12/21 02:15 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Clark Lea has wanted to be the football coach at Vanderbilt most of his life. He now has the job big enough to lure him away from being defensive coordinator at Notre Dame. Lea said his career arc had to align with this opening and the fact it did confirms he was meant to be Vanderbilt’s coach. “This was a place I was meant to take on, a challenge that I was built for and I m excited obviously about it,” Lea said Sunday. “I didn t know that I would get the chance, certainly get the chance this early. But you know, by God, I m not going to screw it up, I can assure you that.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Clark Lea has wanted to be the football coach at Vanderbilt most of his life. He now has the job big enough to lure him away from being defensive coordinator at Notre Dame.
Lea said his career arc had to align with this opening and the fact it did confirms he was meant to be Vanderbilt’s coach.
“This was a place I was meant to take on, a challenge that I was built for and I’m excited obviously about it,” Lea said Sunday. “I didn’t know that I would get the chance, certainly get the chance this early. But you know, by God, I’m not going to screw it up, I can assure you that.”
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NASHVILLE – As a young boy growing up in Nashville, long before he became known simply as Duke , Mike Donegan heard the sounds from the loudspeakers at Vanderbilt s Dudley Field while playing football in his yard.
Donegan s childhood home sat where Dragon Park is located today, roughly three blocks from Vanderbilt Stadium.
The voices he heard in his head back then proved to be a sign of things to come for Donegan, the public address announcer for the Titans organization since the 1998 season. That s probably why I wanted to do what I do, Donegan said this week, because I heard that as I was growing up.
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