JONESBORO -- There were a lot of meetings inside the Arkansas State football facility over the past week-plus. Coach Butch Jones had promised as much, saying after his team was routed 52-20 by Coastal Carolina that he was going to meet with "every player in the program."
That didn't happen, but Jones said he had one-on-one conversations with key team leaders in addition to self-scouting with his coaching staff.
But the most important meetings may have happened between the players themselves.
"We got split up into groups of 10 ... and we just kind of went through every individual -- who you are, where you're from and what's your 'why' to play football," center Jacob Still said.