Fab 50: June Jones

Stephen Tsai profiles former UH coach June Jones as part of the Advertiser's Fab 50 series.

"June has that special vision," Portland State head coach Jerry Glanville said. "He sees everything — things a regular coach might not see until the fourth time he looks at a video of a play. You can't develop that type of vision. You can only get it from your mom and dad. They can't will it to you. They can only give it to you at birth."

It was that vision that enabled Jones to turn down a National Football League paycheck to resurrect a Hawai'i football program that had lost 18 games in a row; to repel the critics and politics to enact a widespread makeover of a team and school; and, finally, to decide it was time to walk away from paradise.