Butch Jones strangely started rattling off his list of accomplishments in the middle of a press conference
Sit back for a moment and imagine current Tennessee Vols head coach Josh Heupel going on a mini-rant in the middle of a press conference where he starts listing off random accomplishments from earlier in his career. It's hard to imagine, right? That's because it would never happen. Heupel, despite leading Tennessee to its best […]
Sit back for a moment and imagine current Tennessee Vols head coach Josh Heupel going on a mini-rant in the middle of a press conference where he starts listing off random accomplishments from earlier in his career.
It's hard to imagine, right?
That's because it would never happen. Heupel, despite leading Tennessee to its best season in two decades, is always looking forward. The past is proof of concept for Heupel when it comes to recruiting, but that's all it is.
Former Tennessee head coach Butch Jones, however, isn't cut from the same cloth. Jones loves to live in the past. Which is why it shouldn't come as a surprise that he randomly started listing off everything he accomplished at Central Michigan from 2007 to 2009 during a press conference this week.
It all started because a reporter asked Jones, who is currently the head coach at Arkansas State, about South Alabama (the Red Wolves' upcoming opponent) and why they struggled in a loss to Central Michigan earlier this season.
"What's wrong with Central Michigan?" said Jones. "I'm just gonna remind you we were 22 and 3 in Mid American Conference play at one point in time with the Chippewas. And beat Michigan State and Indiana back to back. And finished in the top 25. And had 11 players on our roster that were in the National Football League, including the number one overall pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in Eric Fisher. And Nick Bellore who's the special teams captain of the Seattle Seahawks, but just a friendly reminder."
Awkward. And a bit weird.
(By the way, Jones signed Fisher and coached him for one season, but he was developed by Dan Enos, who followed Jones as the head coach at Central Michigan, and Mike Cummings, who was CMU's offensive coordinator/offensive line coach.)
When Jones was at Tennessee, he was always trying to remind everyone of his accomplishments (like when he said he led UT to some of its best seasons in 20 years, conveniently forgetting about the 1998 season, a month before he was fired). Instead of letting his work speak for itself, Jones had to loudly "educate" reporters on what he had accomplished.
Some things apparently never change.
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