Wednesday morning began with reports that SMU football Head Coach June Jones would be announced as the new head coach at Arizona State University. By 4 p.m. that afternoon, it had been released that contract negotiations had been canceled and Jones would not be named ASU’s head coach.
With more than 600 articles floating around the Internet about the “bizarre endings to negotiations,” it is important to set the facts straight — especially when rumors and ideas that are false began to circulate.
CBSSports.com along with ESPN were the first to release that ASU was to take Jones as their new head coach after dismissing Dennis Erickson a week ago. Students and players alike protesting the exit of Jones on their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.
It wasn’t long until Devilsdigest.com made it clear that ASU was not pursuing Jones and had canceled all contract negotiations. The reasoning for the abrupt pull, at the time, was because “outcry of the Sun Devils’ boosters reached deafening