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re: Arkansas Fans: How f----- up did Matt Jones used to get?
Posted on 7/12/15 at 9:56 am to DaleDenton
Posted on 7/12/15 at 9:56 am to DaleDenton
Matt Jones in Malzahns offense, he would have been a Heisman winner. He is one of the top athletes to ever play in the SEC. His results at the next level may not show that but he was a freak.
Posted on 7/12/15 at 10:03 am to offshoretrash
No doubt about it. He had 65 catches through week 12 and never played another snap in the league due to his arrest. He was on pace for 80+ grabs and 1,000+ yards all while not giving a frick about being there.
Posted on 7/12/15 at 11:50 am to offshoretrash
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Matt Jones in Malzahns offense, he would have been a Heisman winner.
I don't know if he would have won, but he'd have been very competitive for one. In large part it was Houston Nutt's tenure... at both Arkansas and Ole Miss... in a nutshell. If you will pardon the pun there.
Nutt was allergic to risks. Oh, he'd come up with some triple reverse dumb arsery from time to time, but for the most part he played it so safe he put talented teams in a hole. A handful of teams and games he'd go all out and usually his teams won those games.
He would coach like mad for the first two seasons at a job and then he'd start to get too conservative. The up and down nature of his tenure at Arkansas and the great start followed by a nosedive off the cliff at Ole Miss are prime examples.
Someone like Malzahn would have taken one look at Jones and based the entire offense around him, basically daring the other team to stop the biggest weapon. All while cheerfully wracking up yards left and right by making teams focus on Jones while other players were allowed to run wild. HDN was never fully comfortable with unleashing Matt Jones in an option attack.
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