Let’s try to remember the good times as we say goodbye to the Butch Jones era at Tennessee.
Alas, Butch Jones, a great champion of life, has been sent on to the college coaching Valhalla that is being a talking head on the CBS halftime report. You see when great, or even not so great, coaches in the SEC are removed from their position they are allowed to go to a farm to play with other former coaches, that farm is CBS.
The CBS coaching farm has gotten some amazing talking talent lately in the form of Les Miles, now it may also get Butch Jones. Can you imagine the conversations between Les and Butch?
Les Miles: I think the players are really kissing the football in the mouth today.
Butch Jones: It’s about being a champion of life really.
Les Miles: I’m a champion of life, my little car has a wife and three kids and I retired to that big mansion.
Butch Jones: You know a mansion of the mind is really what it’s all about.
Les Miles: My mind mansion has an exquisite and delicious yard.
I don’t care about their takes on the games, just give me Les Miles and Butch Jones talking about whatever comes to mind every halftime.
Butch Jones time at Tennessee was so much fun for fans of programs other than Tennessee. From his inability to win big games to his inability to take any responsibility for anything happening in his program. There are few things in life more fun than watching the hill people turn on each other like someone ratted out their mamma’s meth lab.
Jayson Swain called Butch Jones one of the worst human beings he’s ever known. That’s a pretty significant statement from someone living in Tennessee. Butch Jones was always full of it though; he tried to blame a fight on someone falling on a helmet.
Basically, Butch Jones’ press conferences were a drunk Mel Gibson trying to explain to the cops why he was driving on the wrong side of the road.
“Listen, (hiccup) I was just minding my own business and champion of life and brick by brick and no sir I haven’t been drinking… I HAVE A FIVE STAR HEART AND YES OFFICER THERE IS METH IN THE GLOVE BOX.”
The Vols will now move on, temporarily at least, to the Fred Flintstone of coaching with Brady Hoke. Someone inform the Knoxville Golden Corral that they are going to need a second chocolate wunderfall.
Skip ahead to 1:19 in this video to see Brady Hoke and my special moment together.
Butch Jones was a terrible coach, but the hill people are terrible too. We don’t know who the great big orange will suck in next, but we do know that they will continue to be owned by Alabama.
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