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Glen Mason once agreed to be coach at UGa?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 2/23/26 at 1:26 pm
I ran across that nugget of info. He agreed to be coach, then backed out citing a recent divorce and desire to stay near his children. Jim Donnan got the job instead. Interesting…
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 1:42 pm to TexasTiger08
Yep, that's back when Georgia was so cheap and so high-minded about not admitting partial qualifiers that they couldn't even hire away the coach of Minnesota. It's all a little fuzzy now, but something about his teenage daugther having a nervous breakdown on the plane and refusing to move to Georgia, and then something else happened after that.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 1:43 pm to TexasTiger08
Many coaches did not want to work under a prior legend football coach, Hatfield and Mason backed out at different times ...
Mason was a good coach, he beat OSU 2-3 times with Minnesota level players. He screwed himself.
I think the right answer for us would have been Lou Holtz when Notre Dame soured.
Mason was a good coach, he beat OSU 2-3 times with Minnesota level players. He screwed himself.
I think the right answer for us would have been Lou Holtz when Notre Dame soured.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 1:51 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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they couldn't even hire away the coach of Minnesota
Wasn’t he at Kansas at the time?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 1:52 pm to lewis and herschel
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I think the right answer for us would have been Lou Holtz
We were hiring at the time Holtz was still employed at ND at coming off a top 15 season and Orange bowl appearance. Considering where we were after the Goff era there is zero chance we could've gotten holtz.
Granted SC was in much worse shape in 1999 than we were after goff, but holtz was retired so the dynamics were much different.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:13 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Has any SEC school ever accepted partial qualifiers?
Donnan had just led Marshall to a 1AA title.
Donnan had just led Marshall to a 1AA title.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:14 pm to TexasTiger08
Glen Mason was a pretty good coach. He'd have been a good sacrifice following what was the most successful coach in UGA history at the time and pretty damn good coach for the era. Ray Goff is a DGD but he was soooooo far in over his head you almost had to feel sorry for him. Didn't help that the legend he replaced was still in the building.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:17 pm to AwgustaDawg
Wasn’t Mason to have been the replacement for Goff?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 2:32 pm to GTnerd
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Wasn’t Mason to have been the replacement for Goff?
He was. I was wrong. It was a difficult period for many of us LOL....
Posted on 2/23/26 at 3:34 pm to AwgustaDawg
Georgia struggled to hire Dooley's replacement. It appeared they'd worked out a deal to hire Dick Sheridan, NC State's coach, but that didn't work out. They toyed with hiring former DC Erk Russell away from Georgia Southern, but that didn't come to fruition. So, we got Ray Goff.
I remember watching Kansas play in the Aloha Bowl and Mason made the announcement in his post-game press conference that he wouldn't be going to Georgia. My jaw dropped. I don't remember ever hearing the reasoning.
I remember watching Kansas play in the Aloha Bowl and Mason made the announcement in his post-game press conference that he wouldn't be going to Georgia. My jaw dropped. I don't remember ever hearing the reasoning.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 3:59 pm to DawgTired
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I don't remember ever hearing the reasoning.
The word was he'd just gotten a divorce and wanted to stay in the same city as his kids.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 4:00 pm to AwgustaDawg
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soooooo far in over his head you almost had to feel sorry for him.
Skipping practice to frick his mistress didn't help, either.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 4:13 pm to WG_Dawg
A smart AD would have sensed that Holtz and ND was going south and given him an exit plan to Athens pre donnan.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 4:31 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Mason was the coach at Kansas when offered the UGA job. He later left Kansas for Minnesota.
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