Getting to the tournament would be great year next year, regardless of winning a game in it or not. Our program is just not very good right now. We need some legit players to contend in this league, and we simply don't have them. I'm beginning to wonder if Coach can get them.
Getting into the tournament is pretty much the minimum we should expect every year. Jans is one of the 20 highest paid coaches on the country, so you would hope he could get us into the top 68.
A lot of people say that Jans is safe because he got us to the tourney 3 years in a row and poor ol MSU can’t do any better. And you say that getting us back to the tourney next year, even a 1 and done, is good enough? Good grief. Why even pay the man a million bucks then? If that’s all the expectation we have for Mr Jans, then he is robbing us blind.
Somewhere in the middle of these. I think Jans is definitely going to attempt to win his way out of Starkville this year. Not sure where Hubbard plays into that. I'd probably offer him the same NIL money, no increase, tell him we need the difference for others. That'll prove if he's a team player. If he walks, so be it.
Maybe Hubbard getting all the bones and attention like a franchise player is the problem? If we had kept last year's supporting roster together, we would have been a lot better this season, but no one in the basketball world wants to be relegated to second or third fiddle right off the bat. But, we had no more eggs in the basket to compete with outside offers on the supporting cast because we are paying Hubbard so much. Thus, the team lives or dies on Hubbard being hot.
I just cant see "putting everything into next year" and hoping that results in winning a tournament game. If we had a core group that was close to success and all we needed was a couple of pieces, then I would say go all in. But what we have is Hubbard, and not much else.
Well obviously what you can do depends heavily on the investment in football. If you built a big time roster in the portal there, there’s not likely much for basketball transfers. So, checking in on that….
Objectively false. Last years team was extremely solid but happened to play in the best conference in college basketball history. Any other year we go 11-7 or 12-6 instead of 8-10
Just another "one and done" year with what many called a bunch of underachievers. As opposed to this season with a team of no achievements
Just for the record: We have been to the tournament 14 times, 3 times under Jans. He has over preformed the usual here.
Just for the record, he rode the coat tails of being in a strong conference to get in those tournaments. All with losing records at that. Dude is going to be 15 games under .500 after this year and people think he’s some type of savant.
The thing that worries me is our people are working themselves up into another Stansbury deal. We still haven't really recovered from firing him.
Is anyone saying he should be fired? But if he has another season like this one next year, yeah, we have to fire him. And no, it won't be a Stansbury situation. Only season Stans had that was comparable was his 2nd season in 1990.
I won’t argue we should’ve do better but what I’m saying is Jans provided Hubbard with plenty of help last year and was by far his best team. Our team was top 25 for the entirety of the season we were just stuck in a conference that sent 14 teams to the tournament and ended up as an 8 seed against a top 5 pick and a national championship winning head coach
