Congrats to Butch Jones

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Not sure how closely everyone has been following Butch, but Arkansas State has really turned things around this year. Their season started with a 73-0 loss to Oklahoma followed by a 37-3 loss to Memphis. Former Vol QB JT Shrout started these first two games but suffered an ankle injury during the Memphis loss. However, Butch ended up deciding to go with another QB going forward and Shrout hasn’t seen any action since Memphis. But the big news is that Arkansas State has turned their season around and blew out Texas State 77-31 yesterday. The Red Wolves are now 6-5 and will be going bowling for the first time under 3rd year head coach Butch Jones. Butch has improved their record each successive year, going 2-10 in 2021, 3-9 in 2022, and now 6-5 in 2023 with a big game against Marshall left to go. Marshall is currently 5-6 so they are going to be fighting for their own bowl spot against Butch and his Red Wolves.
 
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Johnnyreb#VFL said:
If he woulda taken that Arkansas state job a little sooner rather than bleed every penny from UT for his buyout whilst working at Alabama smoking cigars and rubbing it in, I’d be a little more inclined to respect and wish him success.
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Heck if he had just not done the Alabama part I would dislike him less. If he had just gone and done some obscure cable network analyst job or something.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Heck if he had just not done the Alabama part I would dislike him less. If he had just gone and done some obscure cable network analyst job or something.
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.... but he had to circumvent the terms of his contract, and get every penny that he could from Tennessee. The only problem that I have with him is that he made no effort to mitigate the cost of his buyout. The "intern" routine is a farce that Alabama plays.
 
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Butch tried. He gave us Dobbs and had to clean up from Dooley who inherited a real mess from the punk that followed Fulmer. Anyway good luck to Butch and he could have gone to the house and never coached again but he is still at it. That is quite an amazing turnaround following their early season woes and he does have some young talent. Any success he has can't be tied to Brian Kelly - haha.
 
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knox73 said:
Butch tried. He gave us Dobbs and had to clean up from Dooley who inherited a real mess from the punk that followed Fulmer. Anyway good luck to Butch and he could have gone to the house and never coached again but he is still at it. That is quite an amazing turnaround following their early season woes and he does have some young talent. Any success he has can't be tied to Brian Kelly - haha.
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Arkansas State had the number 1 recruiting class in the Sunbelt for 2023 too. I think Butch can do really well there.
 
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Vols1891 said:
Not sure how closely everyone has been following Butch, but Arkansas State has really turned things around this year. Their season started with a 73-0 loss to Oklahoma followed by a 37-3 loss to Memphis. Former Vol QB JT Shrout started these first two games but suffered an ankle injury during the Memphis loss. However, Butch ended up deciding to go with another QB going forward and Shrout hasn’t seen any action since Memphis. But the big news is that Arkansas State has turned their season around and blew out Texas State 77-31 yesterday. The Red Wolves are now 6-5 and will be going bowling for the first time under 3rd year head coach Butch Jones. Butch has improved their record each successive year, going 2-10 in 2021, 3-9 in 2022, and now 6-5 in 2023 with a big game against Marshall left to go. Marshall is currently 5-6 so they are going to be fighting for their own bowl spot against Butch and his Red Wolves.
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