MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Bryce Lewis doesn't take long to recall back to when he first met Derek Mason, the man that would become his head coach as a football player, and eventually his boss, now for the fourth time, as he starts his first position coach job in college football as Mason's first secondary coach at Middle Tennessee.
The relationship started back in 2012, when Mason was still the defensive coordinator at Stanford and Lewis was a cornerback at Parkview High School in Gwinnett County, Ga. When Mason was hired at Vanderbilt ahead of the 2014 season, Lewis committed to Mason and the Commodores.