{"id":121825,"date":"2022-08-11T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=121825"},"modified":"2022-08-10T20:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T01:53:26","slug":"university-of-mississippi-and-ole-miss-baseball-head-coach-mike-bianco-agree-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/university-of-mississippi-and-ole-miss-baseball-head-coach-mike-bianco-agree-to-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Mississippi and Ole Miss Baseball Head Coach Mike Bianco Agree to Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Rebel Head Coach Agrees to New Four Year Deal<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> and national champion head baseball coach\u00a0<dfn><strong>Mike Bianco<\/strong><\/dfn>\u00a0have agreed to a new contract, announced Wednesday, August 10 by Vice Chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics\u00a0<dfn><strong>Keith Carter<\/strong><\/dfn>.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cWe are blessed to have\u00a0<dfn>Mike Bianco<\/dfn>\u00a0as our head coach, and we intend for him to lead our baseball team for many, many years to come,&#8221; Carter said. &#8220;With his remarkable track record, no one was more deserving of that national title run than Mike.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have accomplished so much in every facet of our program, and under Mike&#8217;s leadership, we look forward to continuing that level of success and experiencing more championship moments.\u201d<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cI appreciate Keith, Chancellor Boyce, and our Board of Trustees for proactively and aggressively getting this done,&#8221; Bianco said. \u201cI am ecstatic about continuing to lead this incredible program with the support of a community that means so much to Camie and me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again, there is no better fan base in the country,\u201d continued Bianco. \u201cWe&#8217;ve always known that but after what you guys did in Omaha, the entire country knows it &#8211; Rebel fans showed up and made a difference!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs always, none of this happens without the incredible players and coaches who have helped us build this program along the way. I can&#8217;t wait to see everyone back at Swayze next spring, and I am proud to be an Ole Miss Rebel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 22 years at the helm, Bianco has led Ole Miss to unprecedented heights, including capturing the 2022 national championship, the first <strong>NCAA<\/strong> men&#8217;s team title in school history. Deservedly so, following the season, Bianco was named the National Coach of the Year by D1Baseball, the American Baseball Coaches Association, and Collegiate Baseball.<br>\u00a0<br>During his tenure in Oxford, Bianco has accumulated a record of 854-485-1, giving him the third-most wins all-time as the head coach of an SEC program behind only <strong>Ron Polk<\/strong> and <strong>Skip Bertman<\/strong>. Bianco owns 954 Division I wins during his 25-year head coaching career, ranking as the 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0most among active head coaches.<br>\u00a0<br>While reaching the pinnacle of the college baseball world this year, Bianco has filled the trophy case throughout his time in Oxford. The <strong>Seminole, Florida<\/strong>, native has led the Rebels to four SEC West Division titles, the 2009 SEC regular season championship and a pair of SEC Tournament titles in 2006 and 2018. Bianco&#8217;s squad ranks top-4 nationally in wins over the past four full seasons.<br>\u00a0<br>Under Bianco, the Rebels have never failed to cross the 30-win plateau, posting 40 or more wins in 10 seasons. The veteran skipper has guided Ole Miss to 18 postseason appearances, including eight Super Regional berths and a pair of trips to the College World Series.\u00a0 Ole Miss is one of four programs nationally to appear in a Super Regional each of the past three full seasons and the only one of those programs to win a national championship over that period.<br>\u00a0<br>During Bianco&#8217;s time at Ole Miss, Oxford has become a college baseball destination. <strong>Oxford-University Stadium\/Swayze Field<\/strong> has ranked inside the top-5 in the nation in average attendance for 16-consecutive seasons, including a No. 1 ranking for the 2021 season. Ole Miss has hosted an NCAA Regional 10 of the last 18 seasons, one of only six programs to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebel Head Coach Agrees to New Four Year Deal Ole Miss and national champion head baseball coach\u00a0Mike Bianco\u00a0have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":121826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[87,7067,159,700,655],"class_list":["post-121825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-mike-bianco","tag-ole-miss","tag-ole-miss-baseball","tag-rebels","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/062622_CWS_Oklahoma_BSB_007768_2.jpg?fit=942%2C530&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}