A new low today?

[msstate7]

We gave Jans too big of a contract for winning with another guys players. Jans has been awful in the portal.

Fire him! Whatever.

I think most the country realizes Jans has been good up until this season. I'm sure top candidates will be beating down out door begging for this job after we fire him for only making the tourney 3/4. I mean shit... we made the final 4 30 years ago

[Tater]

So thats the bar now? Make the NCAA Tourney every season or you're fired?

If you're getting paid top 20 money then it's reasonable to think you have a +/- around R64. R32 appearance, +1. Miss tourney, -1. After 3 seasons if you're negative as a coach then it seems fair to fire you.

Mississippi State is not a top 100 job. It's a top 40 job with top 20 pay and at worst a top 50 payroll. No years beating expectations and seems to have regressed talent he does bring in year over year.

[Saltydog]

He's a horrible recruiter and he's hard to play for. That's it in a nutshell and that's not a recipe for winning in this league.

[Tater]

Fire him! Whatever.

I think most the country realizes Jans has been good up until this season. I'm sure top candidates will be beating down out door begging for this job after we fire him for only making the tourney 3/4. I mean shit... we made the final 4 30 years ago

Is he the reason for our success or is the fact that we're paying players being a bigger needle mover. Jans is getting credit for NIL / portal taking power and consolidating it with the power conferences. Do we think there are 20 other coaches in America that can do what Jans has done in 4 years here? If so - go pay for one of them cause Jans is making more than some of em.

[msstate7]

Is he the reason for our success or is the fact that we're paying players being a bigger needle mover. Jans is getting credit for NIL / portal taking power and consolidating it with the power conferences. Do we think there are 20 other coaches in America that can do what Jans has done in 4 years here? If so - go pay for one of them cause Jans is making more than some of em.

You actually think there are only 21 coaches we can't get? We pay him bc we realize he has a shit job, and he's done a good job

[HoopsDawg]

Fire him! Whatever.

I think most the country realizes Jans has been good up until this season. I'm sure top candidates will be beating down out door begging for this job after we fire him for only making the tourney 3/4. I mean shit... we made the final 4 30 years ago

Weird reaction. I didn?t say anything about firing him. But I do think we need a basketball GM.

[HoopsDawg]

You actually think there are only 21 coaches we can't get? We pay him bc we realize he has a shit job, and he's done a good job

We paid him bc our AD overreacted to a couple of open jobs like A&M. You cant do that.

[msstate7]

Weird reaction. I didn?t say anything about firing him. But I do think we need a basketball GM.

Apologies then. Jans is certainly not perfect, but he's been good here overall. Perhaps he could use help in evaluation, and he could certainly use someone telling him that spending money on players 11-15 is idiotic. Cheers

[msstate7]

We paid him bc our AD overreacted to a couple of open jobs like A&M. You cant do that.

Somewhat agree. If we lost him to an sec team bc of money, our AD woulda been ripped though

[HoopsDawg]

Somewhat agree. If we lost him to an sec team bc of money, our AD woulda been ripped though

At the time, this board was saying pay him whatever he wants. That era is gone unless it?s someone like Calipari.

[EdwardDrayton]

And they have a top 5 coach. This era will have crap seasons out of no where. Bet they aren't dumb enough to fire a good coach after one season.

Top 5 coach??!!!?? LOL!!!!

[EdwardDrayton]

So thats the bar now? Make the NCAA Tourney every season or you're fired?

And the paid program apologist weighs in to earn his bimonthly check.

[Coach34]

Mississippi State is not a top 100 job. It's a top 40 job with top 20 pay and at worst a top 50 payroll. No years beating expectations and seems to have regressed talent he does bring in year over year.

We are in no way a Top 40 job. Thats hilarious. Just because we have money to pay a coach doesnt mean this program can achieve big things. State is a Top 75 job. It's easier to win at VCU than State. You wont make the same money- but you can win there easier and get a bigger job when you move on. I thought Buzz was an idiot for leaving A&M for Maryland because of history. Buzz is finding out what a dumb ****ing move he made

[Coach34]

And the paid program apologist weighs in to earn his bimonthly check.

I just need some sensible feedback on how firing the guy that has done a great job at State would be a smart thing to do

[RezDog7]

Yeah, let's take it from a guy with a track record and give it to a guy with 1 sec win in 2 seasons

I didn't say give it to Lebby. And you can have those 3 straight embarrassing losses in the tournament. So much fun.

[RezDog7]

Fire him! Whatever.

I think most the country realizes Jans has been good up until this season. I'm sure top candidates will be beating down out door begging for this job after we fire him for only making the tourney 3/4. I mean shit... we made the final 4 30 years ago

The same coaches that will be beating down our door when we fire Lebby.

[msstate7]

Top 5 coach??!!!?? LOL!!!!

Beard is outstanding. The only reason he isn't winning big time at Texas is he's a moron

[Tater]

We are in no way a Top 40 job. Thats hilarious. Just because we have money to pay a coach doesnt mean this program can achieve big things. State is a Top 75 job. It's easier to win at VCU than State. You wont make the same money- but you can win there easier and get a bigger job when you move on. I thought Buzz was an idiot for leaving A&M for Maryland because of history. Buzz is finding out what a dumb ****ing move he made

You're the one spouting jimmies and joes and wu tang clan cash rules everything around me cream get the money dolla dolla bills yall. But when we have two sports where we are doing such a thing we're firing one and keeping the other.

Baseball is a top 5 job with top 5 pay and a top 5 payroll. Reasonable for Lemo to have expectations be making it to top 8 as a baseline. Y1 he traded even. Y2 scrapped. Y3 he got +3 (F4, F2, Champ). Y4 he got -1. Y5 he got -1. Y6 he got -1. Y7 he was headed for -1. We almost turned it around early enough by firing him that the ship got back to where it was. But overall he was about to be negative on the expectation scale after Y3.

VCU is not a better job than State. Maybe 10 years ago. You could argue the same 5 years ago. Now? Not a chance. The gap in MBB is massively growing. State pays 3 times as much for our HC as VCU does. We are one of the "bigger job(s)" you can move onto. Your logic is like saying that New Mexico State is a better job than ours because it's easier to win at. Jans beat friggin UConn while at NMSU in the tourney.

[Goldendawg]

Some of you would be stunned to know what we are paying these players from the tallest to the shortest. From what I have been told, $ was not the issue; evaluation in this latest portal class was, and our offensively challenged HC since the day he stepped on our campus. Our 7' center has gone from averaging 16.5 or so from his last stop to being unable to even catch a pass to be about a 5.0 ppg guy for us. Our tall European guy took almost half the year to get his first dunk. Our three shooting guards could almost qualify for a 6-foot-and-under league, and this list goes on. This bunch gets paid big $ whether they win, (very seldom this year) or show little effort in another embarrassing home loss. JMO.

[maroonmania]

He's a horrible recruiter and he's hard to play for. That's it in a nutshell and that's not a recipe for winning in this league.

Agree, he's an old school coach in a time where players have.all the power because they are highly paid guys focused on themselves rather than the team and can jump ship on you at any time. Compare our style to that of Bama and it's easy to see where a player wanting to show out would prefer to go.

Also, our roster construction this year was just stupid. I mean we pretty much all questioned why you would bring in another under 6 foot guard to pair with Hubbard? No logic to that when our 3 point defense was already pathetic. Come on Jans, use your brain.