High on the wall at the front of Arkansas State University’s auditorium hangs a black sign emblazoned with a smattering of football cliches.
Listed are Coach Butch Jones’ expectations: The ball, special teams, team first, fundamentals & discipline and toughness. Each has a series of bullet points below, with the usual dots replaced by the Red Wolf logo.
Nestled between the first and third phrases is a saying that’s less intuitive than the rest: 4-6/A to B.
It’s a mindset Jones has adopted from former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer — the typical football play lasts between four and six seconds, and the expectation is that each player is moving at full speed between points A and B.