VANDERBILT
Clark Lea completes his first Vanderbilt coaching staff with hire of cornerbacks coach LaMar Morgan
Clark Lea has completed his first Vanderbilt coaching staff.
The final addition to the Commodores 2021 staff comes with the hire of cornerbacks coach, LaMar Morgan. Morgan comes to Vanderbilt after spending the previous two seasons as Billy Napier’s cornerbacks coach at Louisiana.
Prior to joining Napier’s Louisiana staff, Morgan coached safeties at Houston. He also has experience coaching defensive backs at Louisiana-Monroe and Western Carolina.
This news will mark Morgan’s second stint with the Commodores as he served as a graduate assistant under James Franklin during the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
Vanderbilt’s 2021 coaching staff
- David Raih – offensive coordinator/receivers
- Jesse Minter – defensive coordinator/safeties
- Justin Lustig – special teams coordinator/tight ends
- Joey Lynch – pass game coordinator/quarterbacks
- Norval McKenzie – run game coordinator/running backs
- Inoke Breckterfield – defensive line
- AJ Blazek – offensive line
- John Egorugwu – linebackers
- Jovan Haye – defensive ends
- LaMar Morgan — cornerbacks coach
I think the most interesting of Lea’s hires will be to see if he’s just hiring off a spread sheet or picking diamonds in the ruff. And yes I know I’m talking to myself that not even Michael Bratton is reading this. But, you look at the facts:
Clark Lea, Nashville native, Vanderbilt alumni and player, has an opportunity to turn his school into everything he thought it should have been. Coaches at Wake and ND, two higher academic institutions that have football, one of which is a storied team and what Vanderbilt might have been if they had chosen to pursue it. He’s also at a school where he’ll be given the time to pursue this goal most likely with little opposition. He’s been exposed and a part of running the modeled program he’d like to instill. And as a Mizzou fan, my welcome to the SEC was Commodore fans taunting us in our own stadium in 2012. I’d be particularly worried if I was SC or UT in the next couple of years if things don’t pick up. And if Lea finds that success, do you think he moves to another job or is he that guy who coaches for 20 years or more at the same school. Could be a pivot in history.