Leaving High School Football
COACH RICK JONES By Leland Barclay SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR One of the most successful coaching tenures in the history of Arkansas high school football ended on Friday. Greenwood’s Rick Jones accepted a coaching consultant position with the University of Missouri and new head coach Eli Drinkwitz. Drinkwitz became the head coach at the University of Missouri in December and reached out to Jones. “When he got the job, he sent me a text and said that he wasn’t going to do anything until after recruiting but would I want to talk,” Jones said. “That’s how it went.” Jones is 317-74 overall as a high school head coach at three Oklahoma schools, including his alma mater of Edmond, and at Greenwood, where he was 18526 in 16 seasons. At Greenwood, under Jones, the Bulldogs won eight state championships, including two three-peats in 2005-2007 and 2010-2012 before winning consecutive titles in 2017 and 2018. Jones’ eight state championships ties him with Barton’s Frank McClellan and Pulaski Academy’s Kevin
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After 16 years as Greenwood’s head football coach, Rick Jones, leaves to be a coaching consultant at University of Missouri. Photo courtesy of Greenwood Schools
