Butch Jones dropped a quote after losing 73-0 to Oklahoma that will go down as an all-timer
Things aren't going very well for Butch Jones at Arkansas State. The former Tennessee Vols head coach saw his Red Wolves lose 73-0 to the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday, dropping Jones' overall record at Arkansas State to 5-20. Jones has blasted the culture that he inherited and he's seemingly thrown players under the bus while […]
Things aren't going very well for Butch Jones at Arkansas State.
The former Tennessee Vols head coach saw his Red Wolves lose 73-0 to the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday, dropping Jones' overall record at Arkansas State to 5-20.
Jones has blasted the culture that he inherited and he's seemingly thrown players under the bus while defending his poor results so far (to put things in perspective, Jones inherited a program that went 51-37 under previous head coach Blake Anderson).
After the loss to Oklahoma, Jones met with reporters and he dropped a quote that's right up there "five-star hearts" and "champions of life".
"You have to not lose the game before you can ever win the game," said an exasperated Jones on Saturday afternoon in Norman.
That's probably not what fans want to hear after losing a game by 73 points to a team that had a losing record last season (the Sooners went 6-7 in Brent Venables' first season at the helm).
I'm also not entirely sure what that quote is supposed to mean. It seems that Oklahoma just went out and won the game and didn't worry about "not losing the game" (I mean, come on Butch, you play to win, you don't play to "not lose").
That line from Jones will go down with Trent Dilfer's infamous "you cannot lose games in the NFL and still win" quote as one of the more mind-boggling quotes that we've heard from a sports figure.
It's probably the beginning of the end for Butch at Arkansas State. His press conferences are starting to sound eerily similar to the ones that we heard at Tennessee in 2017 before Jones was eventually fired.
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