The College of Texas has its subsequent baseball coach.
The Longhorns and Jim Schlossnagle have come to an settlement to make him the fifteenth baseball coach in Texas historical past, and simply the fourth since 1968, a number of sources confirmed to LoneStarLive.com. Schlossnagle will change David Pierce, who was fired Monday after eight seasons in Austin.
The settlement comes in the future after Texas A&M fell to Tennessee in Recreation 3 of the School World Sequence Finals, at which level Schlossnagle indicated he didn’t intend to go away School Station.
“I feel it’s fairly egocentric of you to ask me that query, to be trustworthy with you, however I left my household to be the coach at Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle stated following the Aggies’ 6-5 defeat to Tennessee in Recreation 3 of the School World Sequence Finals in Omaha, Nebraska. “I took the job at Texas A&M to by no means take one other job once more, and that hasn’t modified in my thoughts.
“That’s unfair to speak about one thing like that. That might be such as you asking (Aggies outfielder Braden) Montgomery if he’s going to signal within the (MLB) draft, however I perceive you’ve acquired to ask the query. However I gave up a giant a part of my life to return take this job, and I poured each ounce of my soul on this job, and I gave this job each ounce I may probably give it. Write that.”
Pierce went 297–162 (.647) in these eight seasons, advancing to the School World Sequence thrice, together with 2021 and 2022, and enjoying in a Tremendous Regional in 2023, however this system’s trajectory went south in 2024. Texas went simply 36-24, was completed on the Massive 12 Match after simply two video games, and did not make the regional last on the Bryan-School Station Regional earlier this month.
Schlossnagle’s hiring marks three issues.
It comes 5 days earlier than Texas formally joins the SEC on Monday after 27 years within the Massive 12, it continues a pattern of Longhorns athletic director Chris Del Conte performing shortly when he has a head teaching emptiness to fill, and it marks a reunion between Schlossnagle (TCU baseball coach from 2004-21) and Del Conte (TCU AD from 2009-17).
As a degree of reference, Del Conte employed girls’s basketball coach Vic Schaefer two days after his predecessor, Karen Aston, was fired, whereas soccer coach Steve Sarkisian agreed to take over that program on the identical day Tom Herman was let go.
Schlossnagle marks the primary baseball rent Del Conte has needed to make since he got here aboard as AD in 2017. That truth doesn’t register on the majority of Division I colleges, however the Longhorns are completely different. Winner of six School World Sequence, with six runner-up finishes and 38 complete CWS appearances since 1949, Texas stays one of many nation’s preeminent school baseball manufacturers.
Particulars of Schlossnagle’s contract weren’t instantly out there.
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