re: Watching Arky vs Ole Miss from 2001

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Jones had such a good first step and long stride, he was ridiculous. He would be awesome in the evolved spreads today.

Is he still in and out of trouble?

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Last I heard he is doing well and hosting a radio show. Nice guy when I had classes with him in college.

In Malzahn's system and given a decent supporting cast I think Jones wins a Heisman and reaches the CFP at least once in his career. He had the raw athletic ability that Gus wants for his QBs and was a decent enough passer to have damaged teams with the play action passes.

Arkansas toyed with both the read option and triple option out of the shotgun... often with great success... but it was just to far out of Nutt's comfort zone to be run as often as it should have. Gus would have borrowed a page from the Flash TV show and spent most of the game saying "Run, Matt, run."