Lester Watson Brown (born April 19, 1950) is an American retired college football coach and former player.
He is the older brother of Mack Brown, the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From there, he went to East Carolina University, where he spent two seasons as an assistant to Pat Dye, coaching quarterbacks and wide receivers.
Brown spent the 1978 season as an assistant at Texas Tech University under Rex Dockery before landing his first head coaching position a year later.
From there he returned to his alma mater to take over as head coach of the Vanderbilt University football program.
Brown resigned from UAB to take over the head coaching responsibilities at Tennessee Technological University on December 9, 2006.
[1] As of September, 2019, Brown was the co-host of The George Plaster Show on Nashville radio station WNSR weekdays from 2-4 pm; however, in 2022 this program was moved to online streaming only.