Butch Jones can add Illinois and North Carolina to list of suitors

Lastly Illinois. The reason Jones is being mentioned at all for the Illinois job is that he is a hot name and Mike Thomas is the AD. Everyone is putting stock in the fact that Thomas hired Jones. And those people are generally wrong. Thomas's reputation is shit in Clifton, you have to search far and wide for someone who has something genuinely good to say about Thomas. Beyond that point the relationship between Jones and Thomas was already showing strain before Thomas left. I have no doubts what so ever about Jones being high on the list of Mike Thomas, and rumors to that extent have already proliferated on twitter and message boards. But I would be shocked if Jones had any interest in working with Thomas, not when he had a hand in picking Whit Babcock to take the AD job here at UC.

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