Derek Mason in "preliminary contact with LSU about its DC job"

Solid.

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O will be fired by the end of the season if this is his hire

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No. Managing a team and managing a defense are entirely different. He would be lights out with our talent.

We will get downvoted into oblivion by posters who dont know shite, but ill trust the multiple power five teams courting the man right now.

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solid guy

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Couldn’t care less about this

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solid coach

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Don’t need solid, need phenomenal. Maybe Mason would work out under Saban but O needs an elite, elite guy who can do it on his own

ETA: 91, 61, 89, 35, 22, 107- for the morons who disagree, those have been his defensive scoring rankings over the last 6 years. You can argue all you want that Mason would somehow magically become elite because he had 2 years of not-awful defense at Vanderbilt, but you’re wrong. His defenses haven’t been good and he would be a huge miss without an elite defensive coach to get him up to speed on modern offenses

The multiple power 5 teams that fired their coaches because they were bad? That’s who you want to trust?

This would be a terrible hire but at least O would get canned at the end of the year.

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Don’t need solid, need phenomenal. Maybe Mason would work out under Saban but O needs an elite, elite guy who can do it on his own

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I agree with this. I wouldn’t be upset with Mason, but you’re right.

Is it too much to ask to seek someone who’s primary responsibility was calling a defense at some point In The past 5 years?

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Bo was once considered a great DC too,

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I see your point. But Bo had been a decade removed from competitive football. Mason knows the SEC in depth.

Preliminary doesn’t mean much, other than LSU is being thorough in their search.

Lately when have we ever been thorough in our search!