Former Tennessee Vols head coach Butch Jones is at it again. 

Jones, who is currently the head coach at Arkansas State, spent the first part of his press conference earlier this week "educating" folks about college football schedules. 

Arkansas State is 3-3 through the first half of the season. Two of their losses came on the road against Michigan and Iowa State. As a result, Jones said he kind of views his team as being 3-1 right now. That comment came after he spent a few minutes talking about the differences in playing at the group of five level and the Power-4 level. 

"I'm trying to educate a lot of people," said Jones. "Group of five football is different than Power-4 football. Group of five football football is different than the Power-4 level. And here's what I mean — everything is about scheduling. I've had so many people say to me 'well they don't have a winning record or they don't have that'. At the group of five level, you're a byproduct of your schedule. And so I'm going to say it — at the Power-4 level, I've been there, you go by your non-conference schedule. You create excitement with your fan base. You become 4-0. 3-1. Then all of a sudden your kids believe they're better than what they are and it builds momentum. When you're at the group of five level, you have money games. When I really look at it, in some ways we're 3-1.

"You know, Iowa State we had a seven percent chance of winning. At Michigan, we had a five percent chance of winning. Yeah, you're going to go in there and you're going to compete and you can win those games…I've been at the group of five level for a long time and I've been at the Power-4 level for a [long] time. There is a difference. And I think the amateurs just kind of look at the schedule and say 'oh you should beat them, they got this or they got that'. And I think the other thing is, again it's just educating, football is a game of matchups. And so everyone says 'how can that team beat that team and lose to that team'. Well, it's easy. Some teams, whether it's schemes or players, match up better against other teams than other teams. It's just a game of matchups. Football still comes down to one-on-one battles. And there's some teams you match up [with] better. Their style of play dictates the right, it dictates what kind of game you'll be in." 

That's some classic Butch Jones stuff — especially the part about "educating" people (a line he dropped often when he was the head coach at Tennessee). 

(By the way, some advice for Butch — be the team that dictates how the game is played, don't let the other team dictate it. It can be done with lesser talent — just look at Austin Peay's game against Tennessee last season.)

Butch Jones: "Again, to educate y'all, we played a really good football team." Jones said he's "never been part of a frustrating win."

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Jones isn't totally wrong. Non-conference scheduling is a different challenge at the group of five level and the Power-4 level. But no one needs to be educated on that. College football fans aren't dumb. They know how it works. 

Which is why there's no need to "educate" anyone. Or to make excuses about why Arkansas State is 3-3. Butch and his team will be judged against other group of five programs. And nearly all of the group of five programs are facing the same non-conference scheduling challenges. It's not something that's unique to Arkansas State. 

No one wants to hear excuses. You win or you don't each week. Ultimately, no one cares what excuse you have to offer. You just gotta find a way to get the job done. And if you don't, you gotta move on to the next one instead of "educating" the "amateurs" and telling everyone that you only had a seven percent chance to beat a team (which is a completely bogus "metric"….that's not how football, or any sport, works). 

Butch isn't doing himself any favors by rolling out excuses and attempting to "educate" folks. He needs to worry about taking care of the games left on his schedule, not the games that have already been played. 

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