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It may be so obvious that even Mason can get something right.
It may be so obvious that even Mason can get something right.
Meh. Glen Mason is trying to "Cronk Jinx" PSU.
Meh. Glen Mason is trying to "Cronk Jinx" PSU.
Ignore the idiot....he's still seething with JoePa hatred.
Didn't show much respect with those onside kicks to start games back in the dark years.Now, now! Mr. Mason always showed respect for Joe on the sidelines when he coached against him.
Always wore a tie out of respect for Joe.
Showing respect and playing to win are sometimes in opposition to each other.Didn't show much respect with those onside kicks to start games back in the dark years.
Kevin Wilson at Ohio state is scary
I swear you guys could find an obscure reason to hate Mother Teresa.Didn't show much respect with those onside kicks to start games back in the dark years.
Cue Felli.I swear you guys could find an obscure reason to hate Mother Teresa.
I swear you guys could find an obscure reason to hate Mother Teresa.
Didn't show much respect with those onside kicks to start games back in the dark years.
Great picture. Those were the days. Everything moved!
Judge, just to clarify, my like of your most recent post wasn't actually a "like," it was just an acknowledgement that what you posted is pretty much true.
Now, now! Mr. Mason always showed respect for Joe on the sidelines when he coached against him.
Always wore a tie out of respect for Joe.
Never had a problem with Glen Mason and he might be right about our offense. Will always remember him wearing a tie to Beaver Stadium out of respect for JoePa.
Didn't show much respect with those onside kicks to start games back in the dark years
Please, dont. He craps on every thread without the cue....Cue Felli.
Funny ....I swear you guys could find an obscure reason to hate Mother Teresa.
BFD he IS an ASSHOLE!Now, now! Mr. Mason always showed respect for Joe on the sidelines when he coached against him.
Always wore a tie out of respect for Joe.
True to a point, but how many times have you seen an onside kick to start a game? Those are the only times in 40 years or so of watching football that I can remember it. Maybe Bielema did it to start a half, I remember he did something bush league in the 2006 game I think it was.Your team has to be ready for anything on the football field sir.
Did Joe raise any objection in any post-game press conference? Just asking.
Didn't show much respect with those onside kicks to start games back in the dark years.
True to a point, but how many times have you seen an onside kick to start a game? Those are the only times in 40 years or so of watching football that I can remember it. Maybe Bielema did it to start a half, I remember he did something bush league in the 2006 game I think it was.
As Step Eng pointed out, Joe raised it jokingly after the game with Mason, not at the press conference. But I'm sure there was a little payback in mind in the 2005 game. I don't have a major problem with Mason, but I always heard about his respect for Joe and that seemed disrespectful.
BFD he IS an ASSHOLE!
No just don't like the two faced sob.Gee Bob: Hemorrhoids flaring up??
It's saying in effect we don't think you'll be prepared for this and even if you are it won't matter since you can't score on us. This was against 3-9 and 4-7 teams with anemic offenses.I don't really recall this, but how is it disrespectful to do it at the beginning of a game? It's only disrespectful at the end, up 30.
Yeah, I don't understand the comments here. Mason's a good dude in my view.Never had a problem with Glen Mason and he might be right about our offense. Will always remember him wearing a tie to Beaver Stadium out of respect for JoePa.
Farewell to old friend
Joe Paterno always found time for former Gophers football coach Glen Mason in the nearly 40 years that they knew each other -- and Mason hung on his every word.
By Phil Miller Star Tribune
January 23, 2012 — 4:54pm
For several years, Nike sponsored a summer retreat for college football coaches, an event that enabled men who lived under extreme and constant pressure to relax, mingle and socialize for several days.
Most coaches attended for the golf. Former Gophers coach Glen Mason came for the wisdom.
"I decided not to play golf, because it was such a great opportunity. Joe Paterno didn't play either, so every day, he would be sitting by the pool, reading and talking to people," Mason said Sunday, shortly after learning of Paterno's death. "I used to write questions to ask him ahead of time on a legal pad -- any problems I was having with my program, any issues he could give me advice about -- and he would give each one some thought and tell me what he would do. And his advice was always so simple, such common sense, that sometimes I would be embarrassed I had even asked."
Such was the regard that Paterno's peers held for him. Jerry Kill never faced Paterno on the field, but the current Gophers coach said in a statement that merely meeting Paterno at the Big Ten meetings last summer is "something I will never forget." Added Kill, "it's a sad day for football, but a good day for the Man upstairs."
Mason feared that the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal, and the lung cancer that was diagnosed just days after he was fired, was taking a far greater toll on the 85-year-old coach than the public realized. He wrote Paterno a note every week after he was fired in early November, and "I never heard back. That wasn't like Joe -- he always wrote back, or called," said Mason, who last saw Paterno when he broadcast Penn State's season opener against Indiana State in September. "Today, this is a day of sadness. It's a loss of a good friend, and it feels like a death in my family."
Mason's relationship with Paterno dated to 1973, when he was an assistant coach at Allegheny College, about 100 miles from Penn State, and grew stronger as the years went on. He once sat in Paterno's office and traded stories about legendary Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, for whom Mason had played and then coached as a defensive assistant. The parallels between the successful traditionalists -- whose decades of success and honor were muddled by a scandalous, inglorious end -- strike Mason as a sad but human coincidence.
"When I think about Joe Paterno and Penn State, it's a book with a lot of chapters, just like with Coach Hayes," Mason said. "I'm not minimizing the [Jerry Sandusky] scandal, it was horrific. But that's one chapter. It's far from the whole book."
Paterno influenced hundreds of young students to live righteous lives, and play football the right way. "Football is the ultimate team game, and nobody knew it like Joe," Mason said. "When you played Penn State, there was no trash-talking, nothing fancy -- and those guys played like a team."
Mason beat that team four straight times while coaching the Gophers (he is 4-4 against Paterno all-time), including a 24-23 upset of the second-ranked Nittany Lions in State College in 1999. He was invited to dinner at Paterno's house after that game but didn't show because he didn't want to seem to be gloating. But Paterno insisted he come to dinner after their 2003 game, another Gophers victory that had opened with an onside kick.
When Mason reluctantly showed up, Paterno came out of his office jokingly growling, "'What does that pain in the ass want now? Starting a game with an onside kick is cheating,'" Mason recalled, and they laughed about it. Paterno eventually autographed a photo of the pair of them together, a memento Mason has looked at this weekend.
"It says, 'To Glen -- A hard guy to beat, but an easy guy to love,'" Mason said. "That's probably the highest honor of my coaching career."
Agree the inside kick and Bielema's trick would be BS in a blowout.Nothing wrong at all with an onside kick unless it's a blowout.
What was disrespectful was Bielema having his Wisconsin players be intentionally offside by 10 yards on kick off after kick off as he is attempting to run out the clock. That was BS.
Didn't show much respect with those onside kicks to start games back in the dark years.
Coaches live to beat those that they respect. What better satisfaction. No fun to beat a tomato can.Is this tongue in cheek? Out of respect for Joe was he supposed to concede?