Tuesday morning Coach June Jones held a coach's meeting and informed his staff he was most likely taking the Arizona State job. Well, wait a minute there, the ASU alumni/boosters must not have liked the choice the school was making and basically put a kink in that move. Yesterday the AD for ASU reascended the supposed job offer under pressure and now, Coach Jones is still here. Now what?
SMU is in the process of getting ready for a bowl game, they're beginning a transition to the Big East Conference from Conference USA, which they just announced last evening, and maybe more importantly, it is late in the high school recruiting process. With this much on the teams plate, something is going to fall off. Coach Jones could not have had worst timing. Jones is in his fourth season, with a record of 25-28, and has taken the Ponies to three straight bowl games. He was with Hawaii for five years, where he rebuilt their program, and prior to that, the Atlanta Falcons. He is like a traveling salesman, he cannot stay put, always looking for another deal. The one thing SMU needs right now is stability, and he is not the man for the job any longer. He has proven he is looking again to move on.
The Big East offers the Mustangs an opportunity to a National Championship, based on the current system, and they deserve a coach who is willing to see that they get that opportunity. He has one foot out the door clearly and the time is now to move east without him.
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