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SMU head coach June Jones looks on during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against TCU, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, in Fort Worth, Texas. SMU won 40-33 in overtime. (AP Photo/Matt Strasen)

There is now a front-runner for the Arizona State football head coaching vacancy.

According to Arizona Sports 620's Paul Calvisi, June Jones is now the front-runner for the ASU job and an announcement could come as soon as ASU announces what bowl game they were chosen for.

Jones is considered to be a serious candidate for ASU, according to Pete Roussel.

The former Hawaii head coach has been credited for single-handedly rebuilding SMU's football program over the past three seasons and his team has been bowl-eligible since 2008. However, Jones has never posted phenomenal numbers. His teams have lost at least five games in his time at SMU.

Jones is currently the winningest coach in the University of Hawaii's history, where he posted a 76-41 record. He chose to leave the school after feeling promised improvements -- including the campus and training facilities -- were ignored.

Calvisi also tweeted that University of Southern Mississippi's Larry Fedora is currently not on ASU's shortlist.

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    jackrock wrote...
    Love Hurts
    December 4, 2011 5:40 pm
    If this is all the game Lisa Love has, she's gone (and I promise you the Sun Angel Foundation will drive her to Blythe if she even suggests June Jones as a solution to the problem she alone caused in bringing DE into Tempe). Any of the other names, from Fedora to Kirby, would be massively better than this mediocre option. Come on, turning Hawaii around? I mean, what kind of qualification is that? SMU now winning half their games with a budget larger than ASU? Just stick a fork in it!
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    deathbirthday wrote...
    NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!NO! NO! NO! NO!
    December 4, 2011 6:35 pm
    If this happens there will be another open set of season tickets available. NO WAY to JUNE JONES! NO!
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    theuglytruth wrote...
    This tells me they were never serious...
    December 4, 2011 6:44 pm
    ..about Sumlin to begin with. It was some little PR move to make it look like effort was made. How can anyone respect June Jones when you hyped up Sumlin. What a piss poor job by Love.
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    Stix7 wrote...
    If ASU hires
    December 4, 2011 7:44 pm
    June Jones I think we should openly protest Lisa Love's status as the AD! We are going to become the joke of the PAC-12 along with Colorado. This makes me sick to my stomach the athletic dept sucks! But then again what do you expect when you're school president is a wet noodle wiener who probably never played sports and doesn't care about the school athletic program all he cares about are priuses and solar panels to provide shade for the priuses, he's a green moron who is taking the athletic dept from mediocre to crap!!!!
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    theuglytruth wrote...
    Wow...
    December 4, 2011 8:14 pm
    ...you couldn't make this crap up if you wanted too.
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