Championship of Life coach joining a six-time national championship coach? Yes, please.
Citing unnamed sources, al.com is reporting that Nick Saban has been in contact with Butch Jones about a job on his Alabama football staff. In fact, the interest has gotten as far down the road as Jones making a trip to Tuscaloosa and meeting face-to-face with Saban.
With Saban’s on-field staff being completed last week, Jones would be in line for an offensive analyst role with the Crimson Tide.
Jones, of course, was the head coach at rival Tennessee for nearly five seasons before he was summarily dismissed in mid-November of last year. Prior to that, he was the head coach at Cincinnati (2010-12) and Central Michigan (2007-09); his last job that didn’t involve being a head coach or position coach came as a graduate assistant at Rutgers from 1990-92.
The job with the Vols, which ended with, among other things, a 14-24 mark in conference play, was Jones’ first of any kind in the SEC. Per his UT contract, Jones will be paid just over $8 million in the form of a buyout, minus whatever he was to make at future jobs through February of 2021.
