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For the record, my fbi comment was a joke. My expectations for this season have bottomed out, and I don't see myself getting too worked up over MBK.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tater
I'll also add in previous seasons, we've had some close calls to bad teams, and we even lost to a swac school. With this team though, well, let's just say I don't feel good about them. Perhaps Josh, Epps, and Ali have another gear
I'd argue with how college basketball is trending that we've been more of a benefactor of NIL / transfer portal / covid year than exceptional coaching. Two of those things are leveling out across the playing field while NIL is having some adverse side effects (see Kanye Clary).Quote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
Every SEC school making the tournament is going to be the norm within 10 years and missing the tournament is probably a fireable offense.
Not just losing to UNO but playing 35 minutes of atrocious basketball and being down 10+ should never happen. Box score watching does not emphasize how bad last night was.
Zigging with a defensive experiment that forgoes FTs and 3s in the FTs and 3s era is both frustrating to watch and yielding frustrating results. We're six games in and so far:
Trailed by 9 in the second half against North Alabama (24 point favorites)
Lost by double digits and never competed against Iowa State
Led by as little as 2 against SELA in the second half and only won by 7 (27 point favorites)
Never competed against Kansas State and lost a game we were favored to win by 21
Earned a transitive loss to Jans last school, New Mexico State, by losing to New Mexico. (This honestly is the only game so far on the schedule that at least is somewhat ok - but again shows we struggle to beat tourney teams)
Then last night's pathetic performance against UNO - down 13 with 5 to go.
Objectively - we gotta ask are we getting the ROI that we should be here? We're paying a coach 4 million. We're paying a ton in basketball NIL. Yet we have no tourney wins and look worse offensively and are seeing players regress under Jans tutelage. Sure historically this would be a good run for State. Historically we also didn't pay players to this degree nor a coach this high of a salary.
The standard shouldn't be our past. The standard should be our SEC peers. And right now - Jans is bottom 3 relative to his peers.
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Originally Posted by Tater
Agree, Jans mixes up the lineups this time of year too. We have some talent just raw and team chemistry isn't there right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by basedog
I don't think I called Jans stupid? Sure he is smart and all these coaches do the best they can with what they got in the lottery transfer game every year.
Last night was not good and the stats bear that out. A few positives though:
1. We won. Please do not let that get lost in all this. We were down 66-53 with 5:14 to go and they scored 2 points the rest of the way in regulation. Sometimes you have to find ways to win on your worst nights, even if you're a bad team.
2. We won without our second scoring option in Epps and without one of our bench guys in Macura. That seems to be getting lost in all of this. We lost 2 guys who are in our top 7. Other guys stepped up.
3. We may have found something with Ali. The kid plays hard and can attack the basket. If it was me, I'd replace Achor with Ali moving forward. Ali is longer and gives us a little more defensively.
Any way you slice it, last night was not good. But it would've been EXPONENTIALLY worse with a loss. For the folks that are saying we need to fire Jans, get a damn grip. The guy has taken us to 3 straight tournaments. He's went to one of those tournaments with ZERO shooting. This team is still trying to gel and when they do we'll be fine. I'm not predicting us to get to the S16 or anything, but if we can get going, we're going to be just fine in the long term. We have a couple of these games every damn year. Last year we struggled with Prairie View and were run off the floor by a bad Butler team. Two years ago, we lost to freaking Southern and were dominated by a god awful Georgia Tech team.
*checks bingo spot for Mississippian bragging about its illiteracy off my Thanksgiving bingo card*Quote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
It's the same story every year. No outside shooting. Guys regressing at the FT line. Cool we locked up ****ing UNO for 5 minutes on defense. That's Jans signature - we have 5 minute spurt of defense every game where the opponent doesn't score. Too bad when we play teams with a pulse they just take the 5 minutes of porous defense we have and score 30 in that.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Again - it's ridiculous for us to judge against Mississippi State historically when the recruiting / portal / NIL are vastly different. The SEC and B10 are setup to be half of the NCAA tourney moving forward just because of the patch on the jersey and the "SoS" (aka money spent by everyone on the rosters). We're worse than our peers in that regard.
Maybe we come together and use last night as rock bottom. More likely - we crater and are all enjoying baseball season in March.
Perhaps you're right... which sec teams have made the tourney 3 of last 3 seasons?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tater
Here's a top 10 in nil spending in MBK...
https://collegefootballnetwork.com/m...r-this-season/
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I wish it were a longer list, but it gives you a glimpse into MBK. The sec isn't gonna spend like they do in football compared to the rest of the country.
That is very interesting. How in the world does the SEC win games and titles not spending the most money on NIL?Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
According to football experts, if you are not #1 in NIL, you can't win. Can anyone explain this? Only one SEC team in top 10 UK (no surprise) but they can't win big in the lowly SEC who don't spend national money in NIL?
That list isn?t accurate. There?s some mixed truths in there but Evan even states in there that it only includes transfers and not entire rosters.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
If you believe the numbers on that list I've got some land to sell you. It's not even remotely close.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
yeah no doubt. We spent more than whats posted on that list. UPig and Kentucky spent $20MM plusQuote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
So where do you think we are? Top 20? Top 37? I use 37 bc there are 37 at large bids in the ncaa tourney.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
That's was estimated on transfers onlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Supposedly we are middle to lower middle of the pack in the SECQuote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
And that's good for us. That would still put us 30-40th nationwide or worseQuote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
This exact thought actually crossed my mind as I watched Josh shoot FT's last night as if he was Shaquille O'neil... totally unlike the automatic FT-making machine we know Josh is. With betting scandals now prevalent in MLB, NBA, NCAAhoops, UFC, etc. it's almost impossible for a spectator or fan to even think about placing a bet anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tater
Wish we could’ve kept Nowoko. We won, although Epps didn’t play and Hub was awful for most of the game. We would have won by ten if we hadn’t missed so many free throws. Hub missed many. Jan’s is trying to find out the right mixture. I’m hold out for a few more games before I’m on the fire Jan’s train.
lol- we arent firing coaches with huge buyouts left. Jan has 3 more years left after this season