Butch Jones said in his post game comments yesterday, after another fourth quarter collapse resulting in a loss , they were going visit with every player and decide who to invite back. His comment that, "We are going to sign a lot of players," at least opens the door to their making room for some older players.

Had Butch done it this year this would not have happened.

AStateNation Retweeted
Kara Richey @Kara_Richey
The final stat to sum up Arkansas State football's 2022 season: Through three quarters in the 12 games combined, #AState outscored its opponents 248-237.

In the 4th Q? Red Wolves got outscored 140-52.

https://twitter.com/Kara_Richey/status/1...q0u6gsAAAA

Looking at their recruiting, and their roster compared to the other SBC teams, I do expect A-State will be a solid seven win +/-1 program going forward , that should go to a bowl game most years. Could be as soon as 2023, if Butch feels he does not have to take to many shortcuts , or compromise "the process".

In the much improved SBC, that is really not bad, and they should be able to put together a special season from time to time.

While some close to their program are confident that Butch Jones is recruiting well enough for them to become an eight win +/- 1 program, I'm not sure.

The only reasons I disagree is that he is going to build his program with HS recruits only using the Portal as a last resort and the SBC is the G5 version of the SEC.

In the Portal/NIL era he will lose players to bigger schools- especially if they have their one-time transfer still available, and that could result in them being younger than most -hopefully not as young as this year, and just like the SEC every SBC team is talented enough to beat any SBC team.