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Try a Digital Subscriptioncampaign: inyt2013_bar1_digi_glob_3KXR9 -- 231435, creative: inyt2013_bar1_hp_digi_glob_3KXR9 -- 357415, page: www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/sports/ncaafootball/auburns-ground-attack-has-a-hip-hop-beat.html, targetedPage: www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/sports/ncaafootball, position: Bar1 Log InRegister NowHelpHome PageToday's PaperVideoMost PopularEdition: U.S. Search All NYTimes. College Football World U.S. N.Y. BaseballN.F.L.College FootballN.B.A. Tigers running back Tre Mason has earned the admiration of former Auburn star Bo Jackson. NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — It was early December, and Auburn had secured a berth in the national title game. The final minutes of the Southeastern Conference championship game ticked away. Two running backs stood together on the sideline. Tre Mason (21) after Auburn beat Missouri in the SEC title game. One was Tre Mason, he of the 46 carries for 304 yards, the scorer of four touchdowns, the son of hip-hop royalty, the latest in a lineage of Auburn backs that includes a man everyone calls Bo. Bo knows football, and Bo knows ball carriers, and Bo knows the heft of the Heisman Trophy. “If you keep running like that,” Bo Jackson told Mason, “you’re going to have a 45-pound piece of bronze sitting on your shelf one day. Mason looked Jackson in the eye and grinned. “I want what you got,” he said. Mason finished his junior season with 1,621 rushing yards and 22 touchdowns and a trip to Manhattan for the Heisman ceremony. He carried 108 times in four games in November, carried Auburn down the stretch, through two miracle finishes and into Monday night’s championship matchup against Florida State. The season’s final month frayed even Jackson’s steeled nerves. Heart-pounding, he called it. Nerve-racking. Suspenseful. Hilarious. Magical, even. The constant was Mason and the running game and an offense known for passing that shifted its emphasis toward the ground. Jackson said as much to Mason on the sideline in December. “You give me hope,” Jackson told him. Someone had said the same thing to Jackson in his freshman season, in 1982. “Tre Mason reminds me of a combination of Emmitt Smith and Barry Sanders,” Jackson said. “Short, stocky, quick. He’s what I call a running dynamo. Mason always wanted to play basketball. At age 6, he watched his older brother on the football field, took in the game for a few minutes and told his mother, Tina, “Mommy, I’m never playing that. Tina met her husband, Vincent Mason, in junior high school on Long Island. He grew up in Brooklyn and found his passion behind turntables and parlayed that into a career in music. He helped found De La Soul, a group that is to hip-hop what Auburn became to tailbacks. Vincent and Tina started dating in 1991. One Christmas, Vincent pretended he could not find Tina’s gift and then turned around, bent down on one knee and proposed. So began her first ride on the fame train. De La Soul toured the world. It released numerous albums, some of which went platinum and gold. It won a Grammy. Its most famous song — “Me, Myself and I” — made an exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Tre attended concerts. He hung out backstage. He met Jay Z and Lil Wayne and Ghostface Killah and Flavor Flav. Again on Thursday, Mason answered all the usual questions, about his father and hip-hop and how a family handles fame. He sat atop a stage, behind a table, his dreadlocks tied neatly behind his head. He said again, “I don’t really boast or brag about who my dad is. The Masons had moved from New York to South Florida in 2001. Tre wanted to play basketball, and he did not go out for football his freshman season at Park Vista Community High School. He did not plan to play football his sophomore year, either. Then he saw some football players working out. They were jumping on top of boxes, doing plyometric exercises. The boxes, Mason said, were perhaps half his height. The other players tried to jump on top of them. Mason jumped over them. The players found Brian Dodds, their coach. “You have to come see Superman,” they told him. Dodds introduced himself. He asked Mason to come to practice. The first time Mason touched the ball, he sliced up the middle, found the hole and cut outside. Dodds looked at his assistant. No words were exchanged. They knew. Mason had played most of his sophomore season before Dodds knew what Mason’s father did. He returned kickoffs and played defense so well that Louisiana State recruited him as a defensive back. Auburn had other plans. The first time its running backs coach at the time, Curtis Luper, watched Mason play, Mason returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown. Luper asked around. The security guard told him that Mason’s mother dropped him off each morning, and Mason kissed her and told her he loved her before he went inside. A version of this article appears in print on January 4, 2014, on page D4 of the New York edition with the headline: Auburn’s Offense Runs to a Hip-Hop Beat. Buy Sports TicketsBuy Buy Buy Buy Buy TicketNetwork is a resale marketplace and is not a box office or venue. House hunting near ... What you get for... Inside NYTimes. The convergence of several trends leaves the book-buying public out in the cold. The Strip: Unlikely 2014 HeadlinesN.Y. Churro Shop Owner Serves Up TraditionBook Review » Diving Into the WreckMagazine » The Quest for a Natural Sugar SubstituteSunday Review »Editorial: Putting Drones to the TestCongress should enact privacy protections before commercial unmanned aircraft are allowed to take off. 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