Center Tennessee soccer head coach Derek Mason wasn’t happy with the best way officers dealt with his staff’s loss to Jacksonville State on Saturday. Mason let his frustrations fly Monday, occurring a tirade towards the Convention USA refs.
In his rant, Mason claimed officers missed 17 holding calls, which Center Tennessee misplaced 23-13.
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His full feedback learn:
“I simply had some severe dialogue in regards to the referee calls on this rattling ball sport. I am uninterested in the bulls***. Excuse my french, I am drained. On the finish of the day, we have gotta get to some extent the place these rattling referees present up and do their rattling job.
“There’s over 17 submitted holding calls towards a very good Jack State staff that had been prepared and out there and so they had been on the level of confrontation and I believed this was straight up bull.
“For us, I do not thoughts a loss. And I am not one to get in entrance of the media and discuss a lot of these issues. However on the finish of the day, these referees gotta be higher. They gotta do their rattling job and be higher. And that is a message going out to everyone who refs these rattling video games: Be higher.”
In response to Mason’s remarks, Convention USA formally reprimanded the coach for “violating the league’s sportsmanship coverage.”
“Convention USA bylaws state that feedback on officiating are to be directed solely to the convention workplace, and public feedback by institutional personnel criticizing officers are prohibited,” the convention mentioned in a press release (through reporter Matt Fortuna).
Any penalties or fines levied by Convention USA weren’t introduced or reported.
Mason, who’s to not be confused with the previous NFL vast receiver with a unique spelling (Derrick Mason), went on his rant days after Center Tennessee was overwhelmed by Jacksonville State, which gained 517 whole yards of offense within the 10-point win. A big chunk of these yards got here on the bottom, the place Jacksonville State out-rushed Center Tennessee 276 to 103.
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The shortage of penalties — in response to Mason, not less than — could have had one thing to do with that. Center Tennessee was referred to as for seven penalties, shedding 55 yards because of these calls. Jacksonville State was hit with simply three penalties, ensuing within the staff shedding 30 yards. If Mason had his approach, Jacksonville State would have been hit with 17 further penalties, which very clearly would have impacted the staff’s offensive success.
In 10 seasons as a head coach, Mason has but to submit a successful season. He got here shut twice at Vanderbilt, handing over two 6-7 seasons.
After being fired by Vanderbilt throughout the 2020 season — when the staff opened the yr 0-8 — Mason hung out as a defensive coordinator with Auburn and Oklahoma State earlier than getting the head-coaching gig at Center Tennessee in 2024.
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He is turned in an 8-20 report in 2 ½ seasons with the college.
