Butch Jones might be a head coach once again … and very soon.
Per FootballScoop.com, the former Tennessee coach and current Alabama assistant has become the favorite to be named the new Arkansas State head coach, replacing Blake Anderson who left for the Utah State position earlier this week.
Butch Jones is the leading candidate for the head coaching position at Arkansas State, sources told FootballScoop on Saturday.
We’re told a deal could be done as soon as tonight. Alabama completed its regular season with a 52-3 win over Arkansas early Saturday afternoon.
Jones is currently the special assistant to the head coach at Alabama, but prior to that was the head coach at Central Michigan, Cincinnati and Tennessee. He went 84-54 in 11 combined seasons, winning four conference titles at Central Michigan and Cincinnati. Jones’s 2009 team at Central Michigan went 11-2 overall, unbeaten in the MAC, and became the only team in CMU history to reach the AP poll. He led Cincinnati to back-to-back Big East titles in 2011-12, and his 18-8 stretch from 2015-16 at Tennessee represent that program’s best run in a decade.