Just over 48 hours after Blake Anderson resigned, Arkansas State University secured its next head football coach Saturday.
Former Tennessee and Cincinnati head coach Butch Jones is set to become the 31st coach in school history, the university announced Saturday night. Per Stadium’s Brett McMurphy, Jones arrived in Jonesboro on Saturday evening, where he was introduced in a Red Wolves team meeting just hours after Alabama — where Jones worked as a special assistant to Coach Nick Saban — throttled Arkansas 52-3 in Fayetteville.
In his 11 seasons as a head coach at Central Michigan, Cincinnati and Tennessee, Jones holds a record of 84-54 and has four conference titles on his resume.