50. Mason Jones
The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly
Sport & Story
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mason Jones is in the thick of the conversation for SEC Player of the Year. But getting to that point hasn’t been easy. In this episode, we talk with him about why he was overshadowed by his brother and sister—who would go on to win a national title at Duke and set assist records at Texas A&M, respectively. Mason tells us about why he struggled with weight as a kid, not getting major college offers and going the JUCO route. Now he’s setting records and leading Arkansas in scoring … and he’s not living in anyone’s shadow.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey it's Bo Mattingly and I just wanted to say thanks for supporting the hog pod. |
| 0:04.2 | Your support comes by way of listening, downloading, rating, reviewing, |
| 0:09.6 | and subscribing anywhere you get your podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Please tell your friends about it because we want to be able to continue telling great stories, |
| 0:18.1 | just like this one. |
| 0:19.1 | I just got tired of hearing all the little bro, you're Matt Jones little brother. |
| 0:23.5 | That was my worst pet pee of my life. |
| 0:26.1 | You're Jordan Jones little brother. |
| 0:27.9 | Oh, you're just a chubby fat kid, just one of the Jones. |
| 0:31.0 | So I'm like, I got tired of hearing it, so I knew that if I wanted to change it, |
| 0:35.6 | I had to go out there and work hard. |
| 0:37.2 | And now that's Flanagan to get it right back, Jones and what? How does he do it? |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to the Hog Pied. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made |
| 0:57.0 | possible by our friends at Core Brewing Company, Rockin Protein, First |
| 1:01.4 | Security Bank, and SarraZen Resort. |
| 1:04.8 | Mason Jones did not want to be overshadowed, but that was a serious battle as a youngster. |
| 1:11.2 | His older brother Matt and his sister Jordan were really good at |
| 1:14.9 | basketball. One eventually helping Duke to a national championship. They trusted me |
| 1:19.5 | to make a blame. The other becoming the single season assist leader at Texas |
| 1:24.2 | A&M. I knew if I would go play basketball I would always have to live behind them and I |
| 1:28.6 | really didn't want to go through that at a young gate so I took it on my path to |
| 1:31.7 | just go the other way. |
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