On Monday, Mississippi State basketball announced that head coach Chris Jans’ contract was extended, marking a significant step towards the program’s long-term planning.

Pete Thamel of ESPN reports that Jans’ contract extension extends through the 2027–2028 season and increases his compensation from $3.2 million to $4.2 million in 2024–2025.In addition, Jans will receive raises every year and have the opportunity to earn more through performance-based bonuses.

After two successful seasons at Starkville, Jans is awarded an extension and a salary increase. Chris Jans has guided the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament and won at least 20 games in each of his first two seasons in charge. He’s the first coach in the history of Mississippi State to do it.

After a sluggish start to conference play in 2022–2023, his Bulldogs battled their way into the program’s first NCAA Tournament participation since 2019. Jans led the team to their first SEC Tournament semifinal since 2010 the previous season. MSU qualified for the NCAA Tournament each year for the first time since 2008–2009, and it was also the first season with multiple Top-10 wins since 2001–2002.

The extension of Chris Jans indicates Mississippi State’s dedication to basketball.

Mississippi State is laying it all out there. They’re determined to compete for victory in men’s basketball.The most recent data from USA Today shows that Jans’s one million dollar wage increase puts him in the top half of the SEC in terms of coaching salaries and matches him with Mike Woodson of Indiana for 13th place nationally.

State is literally matching the yearly head coach salary of a blue blood programme.

There were rumours earlier in the offseason that Chris Jans had conversations with Arkansas regarding their head coaching position. Although hiring Kentucky’s John Calipari by Arkansas ultimately took a drastically different turn, it was still a clue that Jans was at least exploring other choices.

This new agreement demonstrates that Zac Selmon, the athletic director, is prepared to go above and above to retain Chris Jans in Starkville so he may carry on developing his programme. You get the idea when you combine the ongoing Humphrey Coliseum renovations with additional focus on increasing NIL at MSU.

It’s not usually the case that the state takes hoops seriously.

The anticipation for Chris Jans’ third season at State has increased.

I normally hesitate to state that a coach is automatically under additional pressure to succeed once he receives a wage increase. Because, in all honesty, in college sports, periodic extensions and salary increases for a coach who’s producing a respectable level of success for a particular programme are just the norm.

That being said, there won’t be much room for success short of an exceptional season when you’re paying an additional million dollars a year to rank among the nation’s top-15 paid coaches coming into a season with a loaded squad.

Josh Hubbard and Cam Matthews, two of the top players in the SEC, are returning to Mississippi State, and the team has surrounding them with a highly skilled class of transfers that is ranked in the Top 10. It is expected that one will triumph greatly.

For the programme, just having the event the past two seasons was a positive step. Fans, however, will not be happy if State finds itself on the bubble come March and is eliminated early from the Big Dance once more in year three. To be honest, that was already true prior to Jans’s extension, and it is now even more so.

Thankfully, I fully trust Chris Jans to lead Mississippi State past that obstacle. Bulldog basketball is on the rise, and both the university and the supporters recognise this. The time to triumph is now.

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