It’s not a restart or a rebuild for Chris Jans at New Mexico State as the Aggies head into Tuesday’s season opener against UC Irvine.
But after a year in which his Aggies were bumped off their usual perch atop the Western Athletic Conference during a season played entirely outside the state of New Mexico due to state health restrictions, drawing a comparison or two to the first two highly-successful seasons Jans had in Las Cruces might not be such a bad thing.
The first callback to yesteryear comes in the form of the program landing an experienced, well-traveled — for well-documented reasons — high-profile transfer the program will look to as a high-volume scorer.