Here’s the sort of exchange you get when Derek Mason talks to the media about spring ball.
REPORTER (who’s not on screen but is obviously Adam Sparks): That’s obviously not what the other SEC schools are doing...
MASON: And?
This is the sort of thing that makes me appreciate Derek Mason. Derek Mason doesn’t care that the other thirteen schools in the SEC are having a televised spring game. Derek Mason is sticking to his guns, insisting that the decision to have a “spring showcase” instead of a “spring game” was his alone.