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Gophers football coach Tracy Claeys and former Gophers football coach Glen Mason go back to 1988, when Claeys worked as a student assistant under Mason and Mason’s linebackers coach, Bob Fello, at Kansas.
Claeys spent three years at Kansas before transferring and graduating from Kansas State. He said one of the things he watched Mason do is something he’s trying to do with the Gophers: continue turning a losing program into a winner.
“I got to be around all the time and they weren’t very successful before [Mason] got there, and so part of this rebuilding thing was seeing what he did at the University of Kansas to take them to the [1992 Aloha] Bowl,” Claeys said. “He’s an awfully good football coach, believes in the fundamentals of football, and his kids played well for him on Saturday.”
Mason recalled how Claeys made an impression on him.
“He wanted to come in, and obviously he was very interested in coaching,” Mason said. “But he wanted to work as a student assistant, not as a graduate assistant, but an undergraduate student assistant for free and just hang around and learn football and do any duties that were assigned to him. You’d have a bunch of guys like that, but I’d say the best thing I could say is he made a very positive impression on me.
“You always have a lot of student assistants and unfortunately a couple of years later, you lose track of them, but I was able to follow his career. I was probably most impressed when I found out he was a defensive coordinator at Northern Illinois and they did a fine job down there with Jerry Kill.”
http://www.startribune.com/mason-s-rebuilding-of-football-programs-taught-claeys-well/351583341/
Go Gophers!!
Gophers football coach Tracy Claeys and former Gophers football coach Glen Mason go back to 1988, when Claeys worked as a student assistant under Mason and Mason’s linebackers coach, Bob Fello, at Kansas.
Claeys spent three years at Kansas before transferring and graduating from Kansas State. He said one of the things he watched Mason do is something he’s trying to do with the Gophers: continue turning a losing program into a winner.
“I got to be around all the time and they weren’t very successful before [Mason] got there, and so part of this rebuilding thing was seeing what he did at the University of Kansas to take them to the [1992 Aloha] Bowl,” Claeys said. “He’s an awfully good football coach, believes in the fundamentals of football, and his kids played well for him on Saturday.”
Mason recalled how Claeys made an impression on him.
“He wanted to come in, and obviously he was very interested in coaching,” Mason said. “But he wanted to work as a student assistant, not as a graduate assistant, but an undergraduate student assistant for free and just hang around and learn football and do any duties that were assigned to him. You’d have a bunch of guys like that, but I’d say the best thing I could say is he made a very positive impression on me.
“You always have a lot of student assistants and unfortunately a couple of years later, you lose track of them, but I was able to follow his career. I was probably most impressed when I found out he was a defensive coordinator at Northern Illinois and they did a fine job down there with Jerry Kill.”
http://www.startribune.com/mason-s-rebuilding-of-football-programs-taught-claeys-well/351583341/
Go Gophers!!
