Report: Clark Lea hiring 247Sports director of scouting to Vanderbilt staff
We’ll have to wait until at least to see how Vanderbilt looks on the football field under Clark Lea, but the new Commodores head coach is making some interesting hires.
Robbie Weinstein of Vandy247 reports that Lea is hiring Barton Simmons, currently 247Sports’ director of scouting, to be Vanderbilt’s “general manager,” a director of player personnel position. Simmons and Lea were high school teammates at Montgomery Bell Academy.
Lea, who returns his alma mater after most recently serving as Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator has already made one “outside-the-box” hire for his off-field staff. On Saturday, it was reported that Lea has hired Casey Stangel as director of football operations. Stangel is set to be the SEC’s first female director of football operations or equivalent, coming over from Tim Corbin’s Vanderbilt baseball staff.
It will certainly be interesting to see how Vanderbilt recruits under Lea with Simmons and Stangel holding key off-field positions.
The 38-year old Lea is a Nashville, Tennessee native and was a Commodores fullback from 2002-04. He got into coaching as a graduate assistant at UCLA in 2006. From there, he climbed the coaching ladder with stops at South Dakota State and a return to UCLA before going to Bowling Green (linebackers coach, 2012), Syracuse (linebackers, 2013-15) and Notre Dame as linebackers coach (2017) and defensive coordinator (2018-20).
He won’t do $hit with that coward program.
Georgia talking crap that the football team hasn’t won a championship since 1980!
You haven’t ever been anything.
Your just as much coward as Vandy. Cancelled bowl game cause you knew Iowa would destroy you pathetic losers.
You’ve been in a bad mood today.
Maybe.
Vandy has had more national championships in men’s sports than Georgia over the last decade.
Georgia must be pretty bad being worse than such a “coward” program.
Lefty when do you ever win one? Keep talking 1980 but we beat the crap out of this year.
You must be a senior on the football team at UGA who didn’t get a senior day this heat because Vandy cancelled. So salty against Vandy on every post. It’s pretty funny.
It must be nice to almost be relevant yearly before getting your tail whipped in the SEC championship game (if you’re lucky to even make it that far and get past Florida)
Hopefully you and B &g have cancer so you can enjoy each other.
No. You cowards didn’t want to be skull stomped so you chickened out. Get out of SEC. laugh all you want you and Vandy are losers.
You must have cancer. Good.
And you must have no balls like your mother with a comment like that.. unfortunately there’s a special place in hell for people like you wishing other people have cancer. You’re a sick person.