re: 50 Greatest SEC Players this Century

Matt Jones not winning any individual awards or big games was a fireable offense. He won some games but anyone who watched those offenses understood it was lacking and they were never going allow Arkansas to be a threat in the SEC.

Jackson wasn't at Arkansas long enough to know what he could do but his potential as a QB was much higher than Jones but Nutt didn't want to work with him and so he transferred. Nutt was going to stick with Jones no matter what even if the second coming of Dan Marino showed up on campus.

Jones redshirt in 2001 was taken off when Nutt started SEC play at 0-3. It was a panicked decision as the 2000 recruiting class was a disaster and Nutt failed to get a QB that would replace Clint Stoerner. The next eight years would be nothing but a terrible display of a one dimensional terrible passing offenses.