After another late-game loss, Arkansas State Coach Butch Jones needed to hear from outside voices.
Not that he's running from the challenge that is the Red Wolves' program. As he explained during his weekly news conference Tuesday, Jones told his agent back in 2020 that he wanted to land in a place where he could build things from the bottom up.
But ASU's 16-13 loss at Texas State Saturday was the fourth time this season the Red Wolves had come out on the wrong end of a game decided in the closing minutes.
Perhaps there was some thought in Jonesboro that a two-point-conversion stand against Massachusetts two weeks ago had gotten ASU over that hump.