Butch Jones

Butch Jones

Lyle Allen “Butch” Jones Jr. is the head football coach at Arkansas State University. He previously served as the head coach at Central Michigan from 2007 to 2009, Cincinnati from 2010 to 2012, and Tennessee from 2013 to 2017. Jones is a member of the American Football Coaches Association of America (AFCA) and the College Football Hall of Fame.

About Butch Jones in brief

Summary Butch JonesLyle Allen “Butch” Jones Jr. is the head football coach at Arkansas State University. He previously served as the head coach at Central Michigan from 2007 to 2009, Cincinnati from 2010 to 2012, and Tennessee from 2013 to 2017. Jones played college football at Ferris State University as a running back and wide receiver. He was an intern for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League from 1987 to 1989. Jones is a graduate assistant at Rutgers and West Virginia. He is a member of the American Football Coaches Association of America (AFCA) and the College Football Hall of Fame. He has been married to his wife, Jennifer, since 2007. He also has a son, Lyle Jones III, who plays for the University of Michigan football team. Jones has been involved in several high-profile deaths, including the shooting of two police officers in 2009 and the stabbing of a man in 2012. He served as a special assistant to Alabama head coach Nick Saban from 2008 to 2009.

He worked for Rich Rodriguez at West Virginia University from 2005 to 2007. In 2010, he replaced Brian Kelly as head coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats. In 2011, he led the Bearcats to a Big East championship, a Liberty Bowl victory, and he was named Big East Coach of the Year. On December 7, 2012, Jones announced to the team that he would be resigning to accept the job as headCoach at theUniversity of Tennessee. On October 19, 2013, Jones led the Vols to a win over No. 11 South Carolina, 42–28, with less than five minutes to play. Jones made his coaching debut in Neyland Stadium on August 31, 2013 against the FCS Peay Governors. On November 1, 2014, Jones’s signature win came against the South Carolina Gamecocks, 42-28, at Williams-Brice Stadium. He led Tennessee to its 800th victory in its history and became the eighth school in nation to reach that plateau.