Coaches / Head coach / Butch Jones
Form · last two seasons
52
performing to its level
Rating54recent
Peak66best 5 yrs
Career60whole career
confidence
Butch Jones
Head Coach · Arkansas State
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
62
continuity at Arkansas State · early
Seasons here6
Programs4
Stints4
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
Chemistry
vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.
As head coach
Rating54Form52≈ as usualPeak66Career60
2007–2026 · 17 seasonsRecord 110-91National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 54: his whole career, recent seasons weighted most, measured as how far his teams stood above their era, crediting him with half of what each program already was when he arrived (about the share that, historically, follows a coach to his next job), fading as the program becomes his own.
- Peak 66: best five-season stretch, 2012–2016 at Cincinnati and Tennessee (39-24, 1 top-10 season by team strength).
- Career 60 (#344 since 1936): total accomplishment over 17 seasons (110-91), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Over expectation · 2016 on38Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).
Rating = who he is: his whole head-coaching career (since 1936), weighted toward recent years — how far his teams stood above their contemporaries, how much he lifted programs, his great seasons and titles. Form = the last two seasons. Career = the all-time ranking number.
Program lift51
Evaluation51
Results51
Recruiting66
Staff building32
Game management68
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Arkansas State | 0-0 | #101 | -0.69 SD |
| 2025 | Arkansas State | 7-6 | #105 | -0.88 SD |
| 2024 | Arkansas State | 8-5 | #109 | -1.03 SD |
| 2023 | Arkansas State | 6-7 | #96 | -0.58 SD |
| 2022 | Arkansas State | 3-9 | #109 | -1.08 SD |
| 2021 | Arkansas State | 2-10 | #122 | -1.57 SD |
| 2017 | Tennessee | 4-6 | #90 | -0.56 SD |
| 2016 | Tennessee | 9-4 | #25 | +0.84 SD |
| 2015 | Tennessee | 9-4 | #9 | +1.38 SD |
| 2014 | Tennessee | 7-6 | #29 | +0.85 SD |
| 2013 | Tennessee | 5-7 | #59 | +0.17 SD |
| 2012 | Cincinnati | 9-3 | #26 | +0.82 SD |
| 2011 | Cincinnati | 10-3 | #28 | +0.63 SD |
| 2010 | Cincinnati | 4-8 | #66 | -0.16 SD |
| 2009 | Central Michigan | 11-2 | #46 | +0.37 SD |
| 2008 | Central Michigan | 8-5 | #82 | -0.58 SD |
| 2007 | Central Michigan | 8-6 | #73 | -0.28 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).