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Definitely better candidates out there but CU would not get laughed at for hiring Mason. Coordinating experience in the conference, western guy who is at a school everyone understands has serious limitations and could benefit from a change of scenery out of a job he probably shouldn't have taken in the first place.
I'm sorry, but whenever you hire away someone on a hots seat who's record is worse than the guy you just fired, you get laughed at.
Derek Mason isn't on the hot seat.
He absolutely was on the hot seat going into 2018, and he appears to have hit the absolute bare minimum required to keep his job with that 6 win season. That puts him still on the hot seat going into 2019 by my calculations, especially with a new AD coming in next year.
Yep. If that Tennessee game and score had gone the other way, he'd be nervously waiting to see who the new AD is and if he was getting fired. It is that tenuous for Mason at Vandy right now.
Mason isn't on the hot seat just like MacIntyre wouldn't have been on the hot seat had he gone 6-6 this season
Part of the reason I don't believe it's that far fetched to think any contact with Mason from RG could very well be about him being brought on as a highly paid DC in the event he is fired.
Yup. It could very well be that Mason is looking for a nice spot to land. He could get back to the west, get paid a relatively high salary for a DC, and join a staff that would have a relatively long leash.
Dana Holgerson as HC, Mason as DC and whoever as OC... Now we're onto something.
Huh
And I think that would get near universal support from CU fans.
I am fully onboard with that plan!
Sorry, that was confusing. I was responding to onealcd's assertion that Mason isn't on the hot seat. Mac would have been on the hot seat and probably would have been fired, even at 6-6.
Thanks, I volunteer at the Suicide Prevention Hotline on my spare time.
Why? Assuming RG isn't dumb enough to actually hire him as HC, and Mason doesn't want to go the G5 route in the event he is fired, why wouldn't DC back out in the Pac 12 be a remote possibility?
A tag team of Holgerson and RG reaching out to various possible assistants. **** you, Duff, stop ****ting on my theory!
Maybe DM contacted Rick? I still think the most likely explanation is DM's people just trying to get his name out there as in demand.
Most likely thing here is that Mason (or probably his agent) reached out to RG to express interest and RG was open to talking as part of his search & vetting process.
That would be a malicious attack on the University and fans.
RG is also playing this extremely close to the vest. Wouldn't surprise me if he was fully on board with Mason / Mason's agent creating a distraction
SEC! SEC! SEC!
One guy writes what is basically an opinion piece about him being on the hot seat last year and that is proof? I haven’t seen anything from any national writers saying he is in trouble at all so I will go with that. And yes with the AD leaving it is probably a good time to get out of there so I don’t blame him.
It's a reasonable opinion that a coach's job is tenuous when a coach has a losing record and a new AD is coming in.
Yeah and it’s reasonable for me to completely ignore it until something comes out from someone reputable.
