Josh Hubbard

[SteelCurtain74]

is making his college announcement tomorrow at 1:30. Any chance Jans gets him to Starkville? It looks like he's down to 6 schools.

[msstate7]

SPS says OM. They said we had the best NIL deal, but he likes Kermit.

Our recruiting is off to a bad start

[Big4Dawg]

SPS says OM. They said we had the best NIL deal, but he likes Kermit.

Our recruiting is off to a bad start

Jan’s has been the “other team” for about 6 players now

[dawg93]

Jan?s has been the ?other team? for about 6 players now

We will be pleasantly surprised tomorrow.

[NCMSTFAN]

We will be pleasantly surprised tomorrow.

I hope so.. I've said a couple times now that I like Jans coaching but worry about his recruiting, good coaching will only go so far in this league, we need to get the talent also. We've lost out on a lot of guys so far since he took over. Our highest rated guys on the team are Howland's players.

[NCMSTFAN]

Jan’s has been the “other team” for about 6 players now

Exactly, and if you look at the rankings there aren't any top 100 players considering us other than Josh Hubbard. Jans will probably have to prove himself at State before he's able to bring in those guys consistently. Howland landed a bunch of top 100 guys, he just couldn't coach them. It seems like Jans' best options going forward will be to build out of the portal until he gets things established.

[KOdawg1]

If he commits to a coach he won't even get to play for over a new coach and school that's offering him more money, more power to him.

I was frustrated when we got outbid for a dude by the College of Charleston. This one won't bother me as much

[maroonmania]

Exactly, and if you look at the rankings there aren't any top 100 players considering us other than Josh Hubbard. Jans will probably have to prove himself at State before he's able to bring in those guys consistently. Howland landed a bunch of top 100 guys, he just couldn't coach them. It seems like Jans' best options going forward will be to build out of the portal until he gets things established.

Howland had a bunch of shoe company connections that I don't guess Jans has. But I was really surprised at poor of a floor coach Howland was while he was here. Guess he was just old school but he never made adjustments for anything on either end of the floor based on the oppoenent. We just did what we did and hoped it worked. I always said assistants under Howland had the easiest jobs in the world because there was no need to ever scout anyone. I certainly hope we see a lot of improvement in that area under Jans. But with no connections and not being big into NIL I am not surprised that we aren't recruiting well.

[Pancho]

Kermit is on life support in Oxfart. Hubbard wants to go to that school more than he wants to play for kermit if he goes there.

[Homedawg]

He's going to ole miss. If he doesn't it's a shocker.

[HancockCountyDog]

He's going to ole miss. If he doesn't it's a shocker.

Is he good or just ok?

[FoggyBottom]

Is he good or just ok?

number one in MS in class of 2023. I don't know whether he is as good as Daeshawn Ruffin but they are both point guards.

[EdwardDrayton]

Ole Miss it is. Oh well.

[maroonmania]

Whatever, there are a thousand BB players in the portal every year anyway. Hubbard may be one of them after Kermit is fired. No point in losing any sleep over it that's for sure.

[Tripp McNeely]

This is one of those situations where it is not even a stretch to say, "oh well, we can just pick him up out of the portal in May"

[NCMSTFAN]

Whatever, there are a thousand BB players in the portal every year anyway. Hubbard may be one of them after Kermit is fired. No point in losing any sleep over it that's for sure.

I agree with you, I'm not losing sleep over it either. But he would have been Jans highest recruit so far and would have shown he may be able to recruit a little.

[Maroonthirteen]

Did anyone show him the renovations of the front door of the Hump? Or the locker rooms
For 2026?

In the black!*

[NCMSTFAN]

In comparison to Ole Miss' recruiting classes with the new NIL in place now since everyone likes to bring it up in reference to recruiting:

For 2022 Ole Miss has the 25th best class, we have the 87th.
For 2023 Ole Miss now has the 13th best recruiting class, we have the 67th. (As of now but obviously either team may go up or down)

Our recruiting so far is near the bottom of the SEC. I understand it's Jans 1st year but our future isn't very talented. These recruits we have so far are Rick Ray type recruits... say what you want about Howland but from a recruiting standpoint he brought in Newman, Quinndary and Aric Holman his very 1st year at State. I do feel that Jans will be a better coach than Howland and Kermit but we have to get talent in also. Cherry picking good mid major players out of the Portal is what he's done so far, we will have to see how that works going forward.

[msstate7]

Jans better figure out Jeffries and hope one of his guard transfers hit

[Bothrops]

Jackson area private school athletes are usually heavily influenced to pick OM over State by their peers.