What a clown
No wonder he can't recruit.
No wonder he can't recruit.
You think if he'd said "ain't nothing wrong with some shark yambz now and then" justin fields woulda been like "well damn, maybe I need to take a second look at the gators [emoji]129300[/emoji]"
Vols' Jones wades back into 'five-star hearts' waters
If Tennessee football coach Butch Jones loses the "five-star hearts" battle, he's going to go down swinging. He was back at it Tuesday night.
KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Butch Jones is still refusing to retire his “five-star hearts” phrase.
To suggest Jones is doubling down on it would be insufficient at this point. He’s now defended it on multiple occasions.
More than five months after first making headlines — locally and then nationally — for telling a crowd that Tennessee cared more about signing players with “five-star hearts” than five-star recruiting rankings, Jones on Tuesday went back to the well in front of another crowd.
Jones told a crowd of more than 1,000 people at Tennessee’s Big Orange Caravan stop in Upper East Tennessee that media has had a “field day” with his phrase, but that he meant it then and still means it now.
“Everything is about recruiting profile,” Jones told the crowd at The Barn at Sycamore Farms. “And, you know, I guess some people get entertained. Some of our local media has had a field day with ‘Five-Star hearts,’ but if you go around the country, about 90 percent of every college football coach has said it. What does that mean? In today’s world, we want people that love football more than they love recruiting. What happens now is recruiting starts in eighth grade, ninth grade, and they get caught up in the social media, they get caught up in everything but academics and football. We have a recruiting profile that starts with academics, it starts with character and it starts with competitive character, because being a college football player is a year-round sport now.
“So when we talk about the heart that goes into it, we want driven people that want to win championships, want to stay in school and want to graduate and go on and play in the National Football League, and we’re attracting those caliber student athletes right now.
“I don’t know if anybody knows this, but recruiting is going extremely well right now.”
Jones wasn’t overstating Tennessee’s recruiting efforts. The Vols are ranked No. 3 nationally in the 247Sports Team Recruiting Rankings — and one of their commitments, offensive tackle Cade Mays from Knoxville Catholic High School, has a five-star ranking on the field.
