Butch Jones

He is best known as an American football coach and he is now an attacking analyst of University of Alabama Crimson Tide Football Program. From 2013 to 2017, he was the college football head coach for the University of Tennessee. Before that, he coached from 2010 to 2012 the University of Cincinnati and the Central Michigan University between 2007 and 2009.

Who is Butch Jones?

His original name is Lyle Allen «Butch » Jones,Jr, he was born on January 17, 1968 in Saugatuck Michigan, United States. Butch studied at Ferris State University and got his graduation in 1990. During the college years, he played football at college and participated to few internships and training to follow his career and expertise on football.

He had an internship with Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1987 to 1989. All that we know about Butch parents is their names; his father Lyle Jones and mother Betty Jones. No further information is published about his parents and we know nothing about his siblings. Butch prefers to keep his personal life hidden.

Career

After being graduated in 1990 from Rutgers University, Butch Jones began his career as a graduate assistant. He worked as offensive coordinator as well at Wilkes University for only two years. In 1995, he went once again to Ferris State University where he served as offensive coordinator. And thanks to Butch’s guidance, Ferries State earned the most offensive team rank nationally for three years in row.

In 1998 he was assigned as a coach for Central Michigan then an offensive caller player during two years from 2002 and 2004. And in 2005, he moved to West Virginia University where he worked with Rich Rodriguez, under Butch’s lead, the West Virginia University has known a win of back to back eight seasons. In 2007, he went back to Central Michigan team as he was assigned a head coach.

In that year, Central Michigan University has beaten a rival team which is Western Michigan, the first victory since 1993. Butch also guided Central Michigan University to win MAC title against Miami, a match held in Detroit at Ford Field. Not only this, the Central Michigan University team won a trip to a third in row Motor City Bowl. And in 2009, under Butch’s lead, the team won the MAC title game which was against Ohio at the Ford Field and made an overall record with 27-13 and 20-3 MAC record.

On December 16, 2009, Butch was assigned as a head coach at the University of Cincinnati after Brian Kelly. He earned Big East Coach of the year title after leading his team to win the Big East Championship and the Liberal Bowl as well. However, in the end of 2012, he resigned in order to become the head coach of the University of Tennessee. This behavior cost him $1.4 million which allows him buying out his contract with Cincinnati, a contract that was supposed to go through season 2017. That is how he replaced Derek Dooley as head coach of Tennessee.