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June Jones lack of loyalty (from Jan. 7)

In further evidence (as if there was ever a need for it) that coaches no longer care about building programs and gaining respect but that they simply care about where they can get the bigger paycheck, June Jones is leaving Hawaii to coach at SMU. Since he has been there he has created one of the most exciting teams to watch every week...from Timmy Chang to Colt Brennan Hawaii QB's have given me a reason to stay up at late at night and watch football. Hawaii was actually gaining respect and becoming a power like Fresno & Boise State. The WAC is moving to the top of the "non-BCS" conferences.

So what does Jones do with this success...leaves for a big money contract at SMU. SMU!!! Death penalty ridden SMU!!! No one can succeed there. Many have tried since the DP was handed down back in 1987. They have had nothing remotely smelling like success since then. Do you really think June Jones is going to turn that around? Doesn't Jones realize that by going to SMU he has killed his coaching career? After about 3 years of once again not winning, SMU will fire him and he'll end up taking some po-dunk job probably coming in for Howard Schnellenbeger at FAU after he decides he's too old to coach anymore.

If he just stayed, maybe he keeps it going. Maybe Hawaii becomes something and makes it back to the BCS or at least makes the conference better. WAC football is fun to watch and with Boise St and Hawaii both making the BCS it really gives them something to build on. So instead of being a part of that...Jones goes for the money and goes to coach the king of all nowhere programs that will never recover its prior swagger. And doing it in Conf USA...one of the biggest jokes of D-1 football.

Not that my opinion really matters for anything but...I just felt like venting.