  We search for viable models of direct gauge mediation, where the
SUSY-breaking sector is (generalized) SQCD, which has cosmologically favorable
uplifted vacua even when the reheating temperature is well above the messenger
scale. This requires a relatively large tadpole term in the scalar potential
for the spurion field X and, consequently, we argue that pure (deformed) SQCD
is not a viable model. On the other hand, in SQCD with an adjoint, which is
natural e.g. in string theory, assuming an appropriate sign in the Kahler
potential for X, such metastable vacua are possible.
