Mason got what he wanted to get. Except the tOSU job that he BEGGED for and saw it go to Tressel. Something Bill C. always leaves out. Leaves all of this out too. Glen got his contract and more money for his assistants. Despite apparent promises, he again disappeared after the season, showed-up for the Spring Game and disappeared again until Summer.
The 2006 season came. Then he ranted about drunken students, failed to show-up for his shows, went on a huge rant at the bowl party about how he didn't get the respect he deserved from the local press and then his team blew one of the largest leads in Bowl history and lost to Texas Tech.
After the game the "Grinning Glen" showed-up and seemed to not care whether they had lost or not.
Big donor who sat in front of us at the Dome said before the last Home Game, a big win against Iowa, that enough donors had came forward to pay off Mason's contract and that he was gone if they lost the game. They won it instead.
Don't know what would have happened if they lost to Iowa or beat Texas Tech. Think they would have fired him after the Iowa loss. Think they would have kept him if they held on to that big lead in Sun Devil Stadium.
The Administration was very careful in denying that booster money paid off his contract. They hammered the point that it came from "the general fund". Thing is donations to the genera fund were never discussed.
Glen has never seemed real upset that he was fired. He's been pretty classy about the firing too. Would guess that he wasn't real upset. He got his money and probably figured a better job was on the horizon. It wasn't. He was only offered big rebuilding jobs. He didn't want to go through that again. Bet he's pretty happy with his life now.
Wish he was still here. He said that was going to start focusing on Defense. Bet he was too. Just wish he didn't seem so dead set on attacking his critics and doing things his way, regardless of what he said he was going to do.
Brewster was a horrible hire, Kill was a good one and Claeys never had a chance. P.J. looks to be a good hire.
Fleck did a fine job at WMU. His recruiting looks to be off to a great start and if he just shuts-up about not caring about winning and starts trying a little harder to do it, everything should be fine.