AUSTIN, Texas — Jim Schlossnagle was launched as Texas’ baseball coach Wednesday, at some point after he surprised Texas A&M by leaving for the Aggies’ rivals as they returned from the Males’s Faculty World Sequence in Omaha.
The swift decision marked the top of a mad scramble. It started when Schlossnagle was defiant in his postgame information convention Monday evening after a 6-5 loss in Sport 3 of the championship sequence when requested about any curiosity within the Texas job. Information had simply damaged that the Longhorns had parted methods with coach David Pierce.
“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,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That is unfair to speak about one thing like that. … I gave up an enormous a part of my life to come back take this job, and I’ve poured each ounce of my soul on this job. And I’ve given this job each single ounce I might probably give it. So write that.”
The alternate was replayed extensively Tuesday after Schlossnagle traded his maroon for burnt orange. On Wednesday, Schlossnagle mentioned he needed to apologize to the reporter, Richard Zane of TexAgs.com.
“He requested a query that was an apparent query,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I want I might have answered that higher. However within the second, all half-hour after the final pitch, all I might take into consideration was our gamers. And I actually wasn’t within the temper to speak about myself for the long run.”
Schlossnagle was launched by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, Schlossnagle’s previous boss at TCU. Schlossnagle credited their relationship as the largest differentiator within the Aggies’ and Longhorns’ jobs.
He thanked “my man CDC” in his feedback, referred to as Del Conte and himself “lifelong pals,” and mentioned he regretted that issues went down so shortly after a season through which he led the Aggies to a No. 1 rating, a 53-15 file (tied for the second-most wins in program historical past) and the varsity’s first championship sequence look. Coaches have not often made the leap from one aspect of the rivalry to the opposite, and on this event the departure was significantly galling to the Aggies given the timing.
“I wish to thank Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “This wasn’t clearly a transfer from one college to a different college. It is a nice rivalry. And I could not be extra grateful and humbled by the assist that I bought there, that we bought there from some superior gamers, employees, and administration. … On some palms, this was an easy determination due to my relationship with Chris and my previous historical past and my perception in him and his spouse, Robin [Ward]. Nevertheless it was clearly very arduous. There’s lots of selections in life that you aren’t getting to decide on the timing. You aren’t getting to satisfy along with your group, as you want to. And for that I’m sorry.”
Each Schlossnagle and Del Conte mentioned their long-discussed friendship was at bay whereas Schlossnagle tried to win his first nationwide title in 9 journeys to the MCWS (one as an assistant, eight as a head coach). He mentioned he and Del Conte “speak on a regular basis, however Texas had a baseball coach.”
Schlossnagle mentioned that after he returned residence from Omaha, Del Conte came over him and he made the choice to go.
“I dove in with each single ounce of me to assist A&M have the easiest baseball program we might probably have, and that funding lasted via the final pitch of the nationwide championship sport,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “It by no means wavered, not one second. I do not care what anyone says.”
Del Conte, in the meantime, mentioned he headed straight to Faculty Station to satisfy Schlossnagle on Tuesday, hoping to achieve him and “take the air out of the room” in a face-to-face assembly to influence him to make the leap. Del Conte mentioned he hid out in a cemetery in Snook, Texas, about 20 minutes exterior of Faculty Station, for about 4 or 5 hours to keep away from being noticed.
“With Jim, our eggs had been in a single basket,” Del Conte mentioned. “I used to be banking on my relationship with him that we might come to a deal. I used to be actually nervous, to inform you the reality. … Once I was within the cemetery, [then on the way] to their home, it is simply loopy because it sounds. I performed each situation in my thoughts.
“I drove to his home, had an extended, lengthy dialogue, put him within the automotive, and we drove off,” Del Conte mentioned, including that they got here straight to Austin and accomplished a contract Tuesday evening about 7:45.
Schlossnagle referred to as the expertise “depressing,” saying he understood the eagerness of the identical followers he courted whereas he was at Texas A&M.
“We’ve jobs and attempt to run a enterprise on different individuals’s ardour,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “If I left Texas A&M for another college in a unique a part of the nation, the attention-grabbing textual content messages and messages that I bought yesterday in all probability would not have occurred. However I get it. You possibly can’t ask in your fan base to assist you and be passionate just like the twelfth Man all the time has been. This yr, our crowds had been superior — superior — each, each single sport. So you may’t ask for that like I did and our employees did after which count on everyone to be OK with a coach leaving for its rival college. I get it.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession file, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 file in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2016. He is taking up the winningest program in school baseball historical past, with three coaches who’ve gained two nationwide championships every in Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson and Augie Garrido, and 6 extra runner-up finishes on the MCWS, together with 80 convention championships and 16 convention event championships.
Schlossnagle spoke of his admiration for Gustafson, whom he by no means bought to satisfy, and Pierce, whom he considers a buddy. However he was most moved by Garrido, who he mentioned gave him recommendation on teaching at Texas.
“One factor he mentioned to me at some point is that this: ‘Should you determine to ever come to Texas, it will by no means be your program,'” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt that — TCU, UNLV, Texas A&M, no matter my program… My program’s Elon in North Carolina, and that is my college. My job is to steward this program and oversee this program and proceed to develop this program to verify to a championship degree every day.”
Texas is paying Texas A&M a $2.7 million buyout as a part of the rent, which Schlossnagle characterised as “a particular buyout particularly for the College of Texas, due to my relationship with Chris.” Schlossnagle’s buyout was $1.35 million for some other job exterior of the state.
Now that he is signed up to try this in Austin as a substitute of Faculty Station, he poured gasoline on a rivalry that does not want any further gas, significantly with Texas becoming a member of the SEC on July 1 and reuniting as convention rivals with the Aggies.
“[The rivalry is] already superior,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “The midweek video games we bought to play this yr? Superior. The regional? Phenomenal. I can not even think about what a three-game SEC sequence might be like.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Jim Schlossnagle was launched as Texas’ baseball coach Wednesday, at some point after he surprised Texas A&M by leaving for the Aggies’ rivals as they returned from the Males’s Faculty World Sequence in Omaha.
The swift decision marked the top of a mad scramble. It started when Schlossnagle was defiant in his postgame information convention Monday evening after a 6-5 loss in Sport 3 of the championship sequence when requested about any curiosity within the Texas job. Information had simply damaged that the Longhorns had parted methods with coach David Pierce.
“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,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That is unfair to speak about one thing like that. … I gave up an enormous a part of my life to come back take this job, and I’ve poured each ounce of my soul on this job. And I’ve given this job each single ounce I might probably give it. So write that.”
The alternate was replayed extensively Tuesday after Schlossnagle traded his maroon for burnt orange. On Wednesday, Schlossnagle mentioned he needed to apologize to the reporter, Richard Zane of TexAgs.com.
“He requested a query that was an apparent query,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I want I might have answered that higher. However within the second, all half-hour after the final pitch, all I might take into consideration was our gamers. And I actually wasn’t within the temper to speak about myself for the long run.”
Schlossnagle was launched by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, Schlossnagle’s previous boss at TCU. Schlossnagle credited their relationship as the largest differentiator within the Aggies’ and Longhorns’ jobs.
He thanked “my man CDC” in his feedback, referred to as Del Conte and himself “lifelong pals,” and mentioned he regretted that issues went down so shortly after a season through which he led the Aggies to a No. 1 rating, a 53-15 file (tied for the second-most wins in program historical past) and the varsity’s first championship sequence look. Coaches have not often made the leap from one aspect of the rivalry to the opposite, and on this event the departure was significantly galling to the Aggies given the timing.
“I wish to thank Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “This wasn’t clearly a transfer from one college to a different college. It is a nice rivalry. And I could not be extra grateful and humbled by the assist that I bought there, that we bought there from some superior gamers, employees, and administration. … On some palms, this was an easy determination due to my relationship with Chris and my previous historical past and my perception in him and his spouse, Robin [Ward]. Nevertheless it was clearly very arduous. There’s lots of selections in life that you aren’t getting to decide on the timing. You aren’t getting to satisfy along with your group, as you want to. And for that I’m sorry.”
Each Schlossnagle and Del Conte mentioned their long-discussed friendship was at bay whereas Schlossnagle tried to win his first nationwide title in 9 journeys to the MCWS (one as an assistant, eight as a head coach). He mentioned he and Del Conte “speak on a regular basis, however Texas had a baseball coach.”
Schlossnagle mentioned that after he returned residence from Omaha, Del Conte came over him and he made the choice to go.
“I dove in with each single ounce of me to assist A&M have the easiest baseball program we might probably have, and that funding lasted via the final pitch of the nationwide championship sport,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “It by no means wavered, not one second. I do not care what anyone says.”
Del Conte, in the meantime, mentioned he headed straight to Faculty Station to satisfy Schlossnagle on Tuesday, hoping to achieve him and “take the air out of the room” in a face-to-face assembly to influence him to make the leap. Del Conte mentioned he hid out in a cemetery in Snook, Texas, about 20 minutes exterior of Faculty Station, for about 4 or 5 hours to keep away from being noticed.
“With Jim, our eggs had been in a single basket,” Del Conte mentioned. “I used to be banking on my relationship with him that we might come to a deal. I used to be actually nervous, to inform you the reality. … Once I was within the cemetery, [then on the way] to their home, it is simply loopy because it sounds. I performed each situation in my thoughts.
“I drove to his home, had an extended, lengthy dialogue, put him within the automotive, and we drove off,” Del Conte mentioned, including that they got here straight to Austin and accomplished a contract Tuesday evening about 7:45.
Schlossnagle referred to as the expertise “depressing,” saying he understood the eagerness of the identical followers he courted whereas he was at Texas A&M.
“We’ve jobs and attempt to run a enterprise on different individuals’s ardour,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “If I left Texas A&M for another college in a unique a part of the nation, the attention-grabbing textual content messages and messages that I bought yesterday in all probability would not have occurred. However I get it. You possibly can’t ask in your fan base to assist you and be passionate just like the twelfth Man all the time has been. This yr, our crowds had been superior — superior — each, each single sport. So you may’t ask for that like I did and our employees did after which count on everyone to be OK with a coach leaving for its rival college. I get it.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession file, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 file in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2016. He is taking up the winningest program in school baseball historical past, with three coaches who’ve gained two nationwide championships every in Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson and Augie Garrido, and 6 extra runner-up finishes on the MCWS, together with 80 convention championships and 16 convention event championships.
Schlossnagle spoke of his admiration for Gustafson, whom he by no means bought to satisfy, and Pierce, whom he considers a buddy. However he was most moved by Garrido, who he mentioned gave him recommendation on teaching at Texas.
“One factor he mentioned to me at some point is that this: ‘Should you determine to ever come to Texas, it will by no means be your program,'” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt that — TCU, UNLV, Texas A&M, no matter my program… My program’s Elon in North Carolina, and that is my college. My job is to steward this program and oversee this program and proceed to develop this program to verify to a championship degree every day.”
Texas is paying Texas A&M a $2.7 million buyout as a part of the rent, which Schlossnagle characterised as “a particular buyout particularly for the College of Texas, due to my relationship with Chris.” Schlossnagle’s buyout was $1.35 million for some other job exterior of the state.
Now that he is signed up to try this in Austin as a substitute of Faculty Station, he poured gasoline on a rivalry that does not want any further gas, significantly with Texas becoming a member of the SEC on July 1 and reuniting as convention rivals with the Aggies.
“[The rivalry is] already superior,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “The midweek video games we bought to play this yr? Superior. The regional? Phenomenal. I can not even think about what a three-game SEC sequence might be like.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Jim Schlossnagle was launched as Texas’ baseball coach Wednesday, at some point after he surprised Texas A&M by leaving for the Aggies’ rivals as they returned from the Males’s Faculty World Sequence in Omaha.
The swift decision marked the top of a mad scramble. It started when Schlossnagle was defiant in his postgame information convention Monday evening after a 6-5 loss in Sport 3 of the championship sequence when requested about any curiosity within the Texas job. Information had simply damaged that the Longhorns had parted methods with coach David Pierce.
“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,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That is unfair to speak about one thing like that. … I gave up an enormous a part of my life to come back take this job, and I’ve poured each ounce of my soul on this job. And I’ve given this job each single ounce I might probably give it. So write that.”
The alternate was replayed extensively Tuesday after Schlossnagle traded his maroon for burnt orange. On Wednesday, Schlossnagle mentioned he needed to apologize to the reporter, Richard Zane of TexAgs.com.
“He requested a query that was an apparent query,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I want I might have answered that higher. However within the second, all half-hour after the final pitch, all I might take into consideration was our gamers. And I actually wasn’t within the temper to speak about myself for the long run.”
Schlossnagle was launched by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, Schlossnagle’s previous boss at TCU. Schlossnagle credited their relationship as the largest differentiator within the Aggies’ and Longhorns’ jobs.
He thanked “my man CDC” in his feedback, referred to as Del Conte and himself “lifelong pals,” and mentioned he regretted that issues went down so shortly after a season through which he led the Aggies to a No. 1 rating, a 53-15 file (tied for the second-most wins in program historical past) and the varsity’s first championship sequence look. Coaches have not often made the leap from one aspect of the rivalry to the opposite, and on this event the departure was significantly galling to the Aggies given the timing.
“I wish to thank Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “This wasn’t clearly a transfer from one college to a different college. It is a nice rivalry. And I could not be extra grateful and humbled by the assist that I bought there, that we bought there from some superior gamers, employees, and administration. … On some palms, this was an easy determination due to my relationship with Chris and my previous historical past and my perception in him and his spouse, Robin [Ward]. Nevertheless it was clearly very arduous. There’s lots of selections in life that you aren’t getting to decide on the timing. You aren’t getting to satisfy along with your group, as you want to. And for that I’m sorry.”
Each Schlossnagle and Del Conte mentioned their long-discussed friendship was at bay whereas Schlossnagle tried to win his first nationwide title in 9 journeys to the MCWS (one as an assistant, eight as a head coach). He mentioned he and Del Conte “speak on a regular basis, however Texas had a baseball coach.”
Schlossnagle mentioned that after he returned residence from Omaha, Del Conte came over him and he made the choice to go.
“I dove in with each single ounce of me to assist A&M have the easiest baseball program we might probably have, and that funding lasted via the final pitch of the nationwide championship sport,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “It by no means wavered, not one second. I do not care what anyone says.”
Del Conte, in the meantime, mentioned he headed straight to Faculty Station to satisfy Schlossnagle on Tuesday, hoping to achieve him and “take the air out of the room” in a face-to-face assembly to influence him to make the leap. Del Conte mentioned he hid out in a cemetery in Snook, Texas, about 20 minutes exterior of Faculty Station, for about 4 or 5 hours to keep away from being noticed.
“With Jim, our eggs had been in a single basket,” Del Conte mentioned. “I used to be banking on my relationship with him that we might come to a deal. I used to be actually nervous, to inform you the reality. … Once I was within the cemetery, [then on the way] to their home, it is simply loopy because it sounds. I performed each situation in my thoughts.
“I drove to his home, had an extended, lengthy dialogue, put him within the automotive, and we drove off,” Del Conte mentioned, including that they got here straight to Austin and accomplished a contract Tuesday evening about 7:45.
Schlossnagle referred to as the expertise “depressing,” saying he understood the eagerness of the identical followers he courted whereas he was at Texas A&M.
“We’ve jobs and attempt to run a enterprise on different individuals’s ardour,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “If I left Texas A&M for another college in a unique a part of the nation, the attention-grabbing textual content messages and messages that I bought yesterday in all probability would not have occurred. However I get it. You possibly can’t ask in your fan base to assist you and be passionate just like the twelfth Man all the time has been. This yr, our crowds had been superior — superior — each, each single sport. So you may’t ask for that like I did and our employees did after which count on everyone to be OK with a coach leaving for its rival college. I get it.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession file, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 file in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2016. He is taking up the winningest program in school baseball historical past, with three coaches who’ve gained two nationwide championships every in Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson and Augie Garrido, and 6 extra runner-up finishes on the MCWS, together with 80 convention championships and 16 convention event championships.
Schlossnagle spoke of his admiration for Gustafson, whom he by no means bought to satisfy, and Pierce, whom he considers a buddy. However he was most moved by Garrido, who he mentioned gave him recommendation on teaching at Texas.
“One factor he mentioned to me at some point is that this: ‘Should you determine to ever come to Texas, it will by no means be your program,'” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt that — TCU, UNLV, Texas A&M, no matter my program… My program’s Elon in North Carolina, and that is my college. My job is to steward this program and oversee this program and proceed to develop this program to verify to a championship degree every day.”
Texas is paying Texas A&M a $2.7 million buyout as a part of the rent, which Schlossnagle characterised as “a particular buyout particularly for the College of Texas, due to my relationship with Chris.” Schlossnagle’s buyout was $1.35 million for some other job exterior of the state.
Now that he is signed up to try this in Austin as a substitute of Faculty Station, he poured gasoline on a rivalry that does not want any further gas, significantly with Texas becoming a member of the SEC on July 1 and reuniting as convention rivals with the Aggies.
“[The rivalry is] already superior,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “The midweek video games we bought to play this yr? Superior. The regional? Phenomenal. I can not even think about what a three-game SEC sequence might be like.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Jim Schlossnagle was launched as Texas’ baseball coach Wednesday, at some point after he surprised Texas A&M by leaving for the Aggies’ rivals as they returned from the Males’s Faculty World Sequence in Omaha.
The swift decision marked the top of a mad scramble. It started when Schlossnagle was defiant in his postgame information convention Monday evening after a 6-5 loss in Sport 3 of the championship sequence when requested about any curiosity within the Texas job. Information had simply damaged that the Longhorns had parted methods with coach David Pierce.
“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,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That is unfair to speak about one thing like that. … I gave up an enormous a part of my life to come back take this job, and I’ve poured each ounce of my soul on this job. And I’ve given this job each single ounce I might probably give it. So write that.”
The alternate was replayed extensively Tuesday after Schlossnagle traded his maroon for burnt orange. On Wednesday, Schlossnagle mentioned he needed to apologize to the reporter, Richard Zane of TexAgs.com.
“He requested a query that was an apparent query,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I want I might have answered that higher. However within the second, all half-hour after the final pitch, all I might take into consideration was our gamers. And I actually wasn’t within the temper to speak about myself for the long run.”
Schlossnagle was launched by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, Schlossnagle’s previous boss at TCU. Schlossnagle credited their relationship as the largest differentiator within the Aggies’ and Longhorns’ jobs.
He thanked “my man CDC” in his feedback, referred to as Del Conte and himself “lifelong pals,” and mentioned he regretted that issues went down so shortly after a season through which he led the Aggies to a No. 1 rating, a 53-15 file (tied for the second-most wins in program historical past) and the varsity’s first championship sequence look. Coaches have not often made the leap from one aspect of the rivalry to the opposite, and on this event the departure was significantly galling to the Aggies given the timing.
“I wish to thank Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “This wasn’t clearly a transfer from one college to a different college. It is a nice rivalry. And I could not be extra grateful and humbled by the assist that I bought there, that we bought there from some superior gamers, employees, and administration. … On some palms, this was an easy determination due to my relationship with Chris and my previous historical past and my perception in him and his spouse, Robin [Ward]. Nevertheless it was clearly very arduous. There’s lots of selections in life that you aren’t getting to decide on the timing. You aren’t getting to satisfy along with your group, as you want to. And for that I’m sorry.”
Each Schlossnagle and Del Conte mentioned their long-discussed friendship was at bay whereas Schlossnagle tried to win his first nationwide title in 9 journeys to the MCWS (one as an assistant, eight as a head coach). He mentioned he and Del Conte “speak on a regular basis, however Texas had a baseball coach.”
Schlossnagle mentioned that after he returned residence from Omaha, Del Conte came over him and he made the choice to go.
“I dove in with each single ounce of me to assist A&M have the easiest baseball program we might probably have, and that funding lasted via the final pitch of the nationwide championship sport,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “It by no means wavered, not one second. I do not care what anyone says.”
Del Conte, in the meantime, mentioned he headed straight to Faculty Station to satisfy Schlossnagle on Tuesday, hoping to achieve him and “take the air out of the room” in a face-to-face assembly to influence him to make the leap. Del Conte mentioned he hid out in a cemetery in Snook, Texas, about 20 minutes exterior of Faculty Station, for about 4 or 5 hours to keep away from being noticed.
“With Jim, our eggs had been in a single basket,” Del Conte mentioned. “I used to be banking on my relationship with him that we might come to a deal. I used to be actually nervous, to inform you the reality. … Once I was within the cemetery, [then on the way] to their home, it is simply loopy because it sounds. I performed each situation in my thoughts.
“I drove to his home, had an extended, lengthy dialogue, put him within the automotive, and we drove off,” Del Conte mentioned, including that they got here straight to Austin and accomplished a contract Tuesday evening about 7:45.
Schlossnagle referred to as the expertise “depressing,” saying he understood the eagerness of the identical followers he courted whereas he was at Texas A&M.
“We’ve jobs and attempt to run a enterprise on different individuals’s ardour,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “If I left Texas A&M for another college in a unique a part of the nation, the attention-grabbing textual content messages and messages that I bought yesterday in all probability would not have occurred. However I get it. You possibly can’t ask in your fan base to assist you and be passionate just like the twelfth Man all the time has been. This yr, our crowds had been superior — superior — each, each single sport. So you may’t ask for that like I did and our employees did after which count on everyone to be OK with a coach leaving for its rival college. I get it.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession file, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 file in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2016. He is taking up the winningest program in school baseball historical past, with three coaches who’ve gained two nationwide championships every in Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson and Augie Garrido, and 6 extra runner-up finishes on the MCWS, together with 80 convention championships and 16 convention event championships.
Schlossnagle spoke of his admiration for Gustafson, whom he by no means bought to satisfy, and Pierce, whom he considers a buddy. However he was most moved by Garrido, who he mentioned gave him recommendation on teaching at Texas.
“One factor he mentioned to me at some point is that this: ‘Should you determine to ever come to Texas, it will by no means be your program,'” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt that — TCU, UNLV, Texas A&M, no matter my program… My program’s Elon in North Carolina, and that is my college. My job is to steward this program and oversee this program and proceed to develop this program to verify to a championship degree every day.”
Texas is paying Texas A&M a $2.7 million buyout as a part of the rent, which Schlossnagle characterised as “a particular buyout particularly for the College of Texas, due to my relationship with Chris.” Schlossnagle’s buyout was $1.35 million for some other job exterior of the state.
Now that he is signed up to try this in Austin as a substitute of Faculty Station, he poured gasoline on a rivalry that does not want any further gas, significantly with Texas becoming a member of the SEC on July 1 and reuniting as convention rivals with the Aggies.
“[The rivalry is] already superior,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “The midweek video games we bought to play this yr? Superior. The regional? Phenomenal. I can not even think about what a three-game SEC sequence might be like.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Jim Schlossnagle was launched as Texas’ baseball coach Wednesday, at some point after he surprised Texas A&M by leaving for the Aggies’ rivals as they returned from the Males’s Faculty World Sequence in Omaha.
The swift decision marked the top of a mad scramble. It started when Schlossnagle was defiant in his postgame information convention Monday evening after a 6-5 loss in Sport 3 of the championship sequence when requested about any curiosity within the Texas job. Information had simply damaged that the Longhorns had parted methods with coach David Pierce.
“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,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That is unfair to speak about one thing like that. … I gave up an enormous a part of my life to come back take this job, and I’ve poured each ounce of my soul on this job. And I’ve given this job each single ounce I might probably give it. So write that.”
The alternate was replayed extensively Tuesday after Schlossnagle traded his maroon for burnt orange. On Wednesday, Schlossnagle mentioned he needed to apologize to the reporter, Richard Zane of TexAgs.com.
“He requested a query that was an apparent query,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I want I might have answered that higher. However within the second, all half-hour after the final pitch, all I might take into consideration was our gamers. And I actually wasn’t within the temper to speak about myself for the long run.”
Schlossnagle was launched by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, Schlossnagle’s previous boss at TCU. Schlossnagle credited their relationship as the largest differentiator within the Aggies’ and Longhorns’ jobs.
He thanked “my man CDC” in his feedback, referred to as Del Conte and himself “lifelong pals,” and mentioned he regretted that issues went down so shortly after a season through which he led the Aggies to a No. 1 rating, a 53-15 file (tied for the second-most wins in program historical past) and the varsity’s first championship sequence look. Coaches have not often made the leap from one aspect of the rivalry to the opposite, and on this event the departure was significantly galling to the Aggies given the timing.
“I wish to thank Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “This wasn’t clearly a transfer from one college to a different college. It is a nice rivalry. And I could not be extra grateful and humbled by the assist that I bought there, that we bought there from some superior gamers, employees, and administration. … On some palms, this was an easy determination due to my relationship with Chris and my previous historical past and my perception in him and his spouse, Robin [Ward]. Nevertheless it was clearly very arduous. There’s lots of selections in life that you aren’t getting to decide on the timing. You aren’t getting to satisfy along with your group, as you want to. And for that I’m sorry.”
Each Schlossnagle and Del Conte mentioned their long-discussed friendship was at bay whereas Schlossnagle tried to win his first nationwide title in 9 journeys to the MCWS (one as an assistant, eight as a head coach). He mentioned he and Del Conte “speak on a regular basis, however Texas had a baseball coach.”
Schlossnagle mentioned that after he returned residence from Omaha, Del Conte came over him and he made the choice to go.
“I dove in with each single ounce of me to assist A&M have the easiest baseball program we might probably have, and that funding lasted via the final pitch of the nationwide championship sport,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “It by no means wavered, not one second. I do not care what anyone says.”
Del Conte, in the meantime, mentioned he headed straight to Faculty Station to satisfy Schlossnagle on Tuesday, hoping to achieve him and “take the air out of the room” in a face-to-face assembly to influence him to make the leap. Del Conte mentioned he hid out in a cemetery in Snook, Texas, about 20 minutes exterior of Faculty Station, for about 4 or 5 hours to keep away from being noticed.
“With Jim, our eggs had been in a single basket,” Del Conte mentioned. “I used to be banking on my relationship with him that we might come to a deal. I used to be actually nervous, to inform you the reality. … Once I was within the cemetery, [then on the way] to their home, it is simply loopy because it sounds. I performed each situation in my thoughts.
“I drove to his home, had an extended, lengthy dialogue, put him within the automotive, and we drove off,” Del Conte mentioned, including that they got here straight to Austin and accomplished a contract Tuesday evening about 7:45.
Schlossnagle referred to as the expertise “depressing,” saying he understood the eagerness of the identical followers he courted whereas he was at Texas A&M.
“We’ve jobs and attempt to run a enterprise on different individuals’s ardour,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “If I left Texas A&M for another college in a unique a part of the nation, the attention-grabbing textual content messages and messages that I bought yesterday in all probability would not have occurred. However I get it. You possibly can’t ask in your fan base to assist you and be passionate just like the twelfth Man all the time has been. This yr, our crowds had been superior — superior — each, each single sport. So you may’t ask for that like I did and our employees did after which count on everyone to be OK with a coach leaving for its rival college. I get it.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession file, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 file in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2016. He is taking up the winningest program in school baseball historical past, with three coaches who’ve gained two nationwide championships every in Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson and Augie Garrido, and 6 extra runner-up finishes on the MCWS, together with 80 convention championships and 16 convention event championships.
Schlossnagle spoke of his admiration for Gustafson, whom he by no means bought to satisfy, and Pierce, whom he considers a buddy. However he was most moved by Garrido, who he mentioned gave him recommendation on teaching at Texas.
“One factor he mentioned to me at some point is that this: ‘Should you determine to ever come to Texas, it will by no means be your program,'” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt that — TCU, UNLV, Texas A&M, no matter my program… My program’s Elon in North Carolina, and that is my college. My job is to steward this program and oversee this program and proceed to develop this program to verify to a championship degree every day.”
Texas is paying Texas A&M a $2.7 million buyout as a part of the rent, which Schlossnagle characterised as “a particular buyout particularly for the College of Texas, due to my relationship with Chris.” Schlossnagle’s buyout was $1.35 million for some other job exterior of the state.
Now that he is signed up to try this in Austin as a substitute of Faculty Station, he poured gasoline on a rivalry that does not want any further gas, significantly with Texas becoming a member of the SEC on July 1 and reuniting as convention rivals with the Aggies.
“[The rivalry is] already superior,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “The midweek video games we bought to play this yr? Superior. The regional? Phenomenal. I can not even think about what a three-game SEC sequence might be like.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Jim Schlossnagle was launched as Texas’ baseball coach Wednesday, at some point after he surprised Texas A&M by leaving for the Aggies’ rivals as they returned from the Males’s Faculty World Sequence in Omaha.
The swift decision marked the top of a mad scramble. It started when Schlossnagle was defiant in his postgame information convention Monday evening after a 6-5 loss in Sport 3 of the championship sequence when requested about any curiosity within the Texas job. Information had simply damaged that the Longhorns had parted methods with coach David Pierce.
“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,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That is unfair to speak about one thing like that. … I gave up an enormous a part of my life to come back take this job, and I’ve poured each ounce of my soul on this job. And I’ve given this job each single ounce I might probably give it. So write that.”
The alternate was replayed extensively Tuesday after Schlossnagle traded his maroon for burnt orange. On Wednesday, Schlossnagle mentioned he needed to apologize to the reporter, Richard Zane of TexAgs.com.
“He requested a query that was an apparent query,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I want I might have answered that higher. However within the second, all half-hour after the final pitch, all I might take into consideration was our gamers. And I actually wasn’t within the temper to speak about myself for the long run.”
Schlossnagle was launched by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, Schlossnagle’s previous boss at TCU. Schlossnagle credited their relationship as the largest differentiator within the Aggies’ and Longhorns’ jobs.
He thanked “my man CDC” in his feedback, referred to as Del Conte and himself “lifelong pals,” and mentioned he regretted that issues went down so shortly after a season through which he led the Aggies to a No. 1 rating, a 53-15 file (tied for the second-most wins in program historical past) and the varsity’s first championship sequence look. Coaches have not often made the leap from one aspect of the rivalry to the opposite, and on this event the departure was significantly galling to the Aggies given the timing.
“I wish to thank Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “This wasn’t clearly a transfer from one college to a different college. It is a nice rivalry. And I could not be extra grateful and humbled by the assist that I bought there, that we bought there from some superior gamers, employees, and administration. … On some palms, this was an easy determination due to my relationship with Chris and my previous historical past and my perception in him and his spouse, Robin [Ward]. Nevertheless it was clearly very arduous. There’s lots of selections in life that you aren’t getting to decide on the timing. You aren’t getting to satisfy along with your group, as you want to. And for that I’m sorry.”
Each Schlossnagle and Del Conte mentioned their long-discussed friendship was at bay whereas Schlossnagle tried to win his first nationwide title in 9 journeys to the MCWS (one as an assistant, eight as a head coach). He mentioned he and Del Conte “speak on a regular basis, however Texas had a baseball coach.”
Schlossnagle mentioned that after he returned residence from Omaha, Del Conte came over him and he made the choice to go.
“I dove in with each single ounce of me to assist A&M have the easiest baseball program we might probably have, and that funding lasted via the final pitch of the nationwide championship sport,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “It by no means wavered, not one second. I do not care what anyone says.”
Del Conte, in the meantime, mentioned he headed straight to Faculty Station to satisfy Schlossnagle on Tuesday, hoping to achieve him and “take the air out of the room” in a face-to-face assembly to influence him to make the leap. Del Conte mentioned he hid out in a cemetery in Snook, Texas, about 20 minutes exterior of Faculty Station, for about 4 or 5 hours to keep away from being noticed.
“With Jim, our eggs had been in a single basket,” Del Conte mentioned. “I used to be banking on my relationship with him that we might come to a deal. I used to be actually nervous, to inform you the reality. … Once I was within the cemetery, [then on the way] to their home, it is simply loopy because it sounds. I performed each situation in my thoughts.
“I drove to his home, had an extended, lengthy dialogue, put him within the automotive, and we drove off,” Del Conte mentioned, including that they got here straight to Austin and accomplished a contract Tuesday evening about 7:45.
Schlossnagle referred to as the expertise “depressing,” saying he understood the eagerness of the identical followers he courted whereas he was at Texas A&M.
“We’ve jobs and attempt to run a enterprise on different individuals’s ardour,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “If I left Texas A&M for another college in a unique a part of the nation, the attention-grabbing textual content messages and messages that I bought yesterday in all probability would not have occurred. However I get it. You possibly can’t ask in your fan base to assist you and be passionate just like the twelfth Man all the time has been. This yr, our crowds had been superior — superior — each, each single sport. So you may’t ask for that like I did and our employees did after which count on everyone to be OK with a coach leaving for its rival college. I get it.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession file, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 file in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2016. He is taking up the winningest program in school baseball historical past, with three coaches who’ve gained two nationwide championships every in Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson and Augie Garrido, and 6 extra runner-up finishes on the MCWS, together with 80 convention championships and 16 convention event championships.
Schlossnagle spoke of his admiration for Gustafson, whom he by no means bought to satisfy, and Pierce, whom he considers a buddy. However he was most moved by Garrido, who he mentioned gave him recommendation on teaching at Texas.
“One factor he mentioned to me at some point is that this: ‘Should you determine to ever come to Texas, it will by no means be your program,'” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt that — TCU, UNLV, Texas A&M, no matter my program… My program’s Elon in North Carolina, and that is my college. My job is to steward this program and oversee this program and proceed to develop this program to verify to a championship degree every day.”
Texas is paying Texas A&M a $2.7 million buyout as a part of the rent, which Schlossnagle characterised as “a particular buyout particularly for the College of Texas, due to my relationship with Chris.” Schlossnagle’s buyout was $1.35 million for some other job exterior of the state.
Now that he is signed up to try this in Austin as a substitute of Faculty Station, he poured gasoline on a rivalry that does not want any further gas, significantly with Texas becoming a member of the SEC on July 1 and reuniting as convention rivals with the Aggies.
“[The rivalry is] already superior,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “The midweek video games we bought to play this yr? Superior. The regional? Phenomenal. I can not even think about what a three-game SEC sequence might be like.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Jim Schlossnagle was launched as Texas’ baseball coach Wednesday, at some point after he surprised Texas A&M by leaving for the Aggies’ rivals as they returned from the Males’s Faculty World Sequence in Omaha.
The swift decision marked the top of a mad scramble. It started when Schlossnagle was defiant in his postgame information convention Monday evening after a 6-5 loss in Sport 3 of the championship sequence when requested about any curiosity within the Texas job. Information had simply damaged that the Longhorns had parted methods with coach David Pierce.
“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,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That is unfair to speak about one thing like that. … I gave up an enormous a part of my life to come back take this job, and I’ve poured each ounce of my soul on this job. And I’ve given this job each single ounce I might probably give it. So write that.”
The alternate was replayed extensively Tuesday after Schlossnagle traded his maroon for burnt orange. On Wednesday, Schlossnagle mentioned he needed to apologize to the reporter, Richard Zane of TexAgs.com.
“He requested a query that was an apparent query,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I want I might have answered that higher. However within the second, all half-hour after the final pitch, all I might take into consideration was our gamers. And I actually wasn’t within the temper to speak about myself for the long run.”
Schlossnagle was launched by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, Schlossnagle’s previous boss at TCU. Schlossnagle credited their relationship as the largest differentiator within the Aggies’ and Longhorns’ jobs.
He thanked “my man CDC” in his feedback, referred to as Del Conte and himself “lifelong pals,” and mentioned he regretted that issues went down so shortly after a season through which he led the Aggies to a No. 1 rating, a 53-15 file (tied for the second-most wins in program historical past) and the varsity’s first championship sequence look. Coaches have not often made the leap from one aspect of the rivalry to the opposite, and on this event the departure was significantly galling to the Aggies given the timing.
“I wish to thank Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “This wasn’t clearly a transfer from one college to a different college. It is a nice rivalry. And I could not be extra grateful and humbled by the assist that I bought there, that we bought there from some superior gamers, employees, and administration. … On some palms, this was an easy determination due to my relationship with Chris and my previous historical past and my perception in him and his spouse, Robin [Ward]. Nevertheless it was clearly very arduous. There’s lots of selections in life that you aren’t getting to decide on the timing. You aren’t getting to satisfy along with your group, as you want to. And for that I’m sorry.”
Each Schlossnagle and Del Conte mentioned their long-discussed friendship was at bay whereas Schlossnagle tried to win his first nationwide title in 9 journeys to the MCWS (one as an assistant, eight as a head coach). He mentioned he and Del Conte “speak on a regular basis, however Texas had a baseball coach.”
Schlossnagle mentioned that after he returned residence from Omaha, Del Conte came over him and he made the choice to go.
“I dove in with each single ounce of me to assist A&M have the easiest baseball program we might probably have, and that funding lasted via the final pitch of the nationwide championship sport,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “It by no means wavered, not one second. I do not care what anyone says.”
Del Conte, in the meantime, mentioned he headed straight to Faculty Station to satisfy Schlossnagle on Tuesday, hoping to achieve him and “take the air out of the room” in a face-to-face assembly to influence him to make the leap. Del Conte mentioned he hid out in a cemetery in Snook, Texas, about 20 minutes exterior of Faculty Station, for about 4 or 5 hours to keep away from being noticed.
“With Jim, our eggs had been in a single basket,” Del Conte mentioned. “I used to be banking on my relationship with him that we might come to a deal. I used to be actually nervous, to inform you the reality. … Once I was within the cemetery, [then on the way] to their home, it is simply loopy because it sounds. I performed each situation in my thoughts.
“I drove to his home, had an extended, lengthy dialogue, put him within the automotive, and we drove off,” Del Conte mentioned, including that they got here straight to Austin and accomplished a contract Tuesday evening about 7:45.
Schlossnagle referred to as the expertise “depressing,” saying he understood the eagerness of the identical followers he courted whereas he was at Texas A&M.
“We’ve jobs and attempt to run a enterprise on different individuals’s ardour,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “If I left Texas A&M for another college in a unique a part of the nation, the attention-grabbing textual content messages and messages that I bought yesterday in all probability would not have occurred. However I get it. You possibly can’t ask in your fan base to assist you and be passionate just like the twelfth Man all the time has been. This yr, our crowds had been superior — superior — each, each single sport. So you may’t ask for that like I did and our employees did after which count on everyone to be OK with a coach leaving for its rival college. I get it.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession file, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 file in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2016. He is taking up the winningest program in school baseball historical past, with three coaches who’ve gained two nationwide championships every in Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson and Augie Garrido, and 6 extra runner-up finishes on the MCWS, together with 80 convention championships and 16 convention event championships.
Schlossnagle spoke of his admiration for Gustafson, whom he by no means bought to satisfy, and Pierce, whom he considers a buddy. However he was most moved by Garrido, who he mentioned gave him recommendation on teaching at Texas.
“One factor he mentioned to me at some point is that this: ‘Should you determine to ever come to Texas, it will by no means be your program,'” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt that — TCU, UNLV, Texas A&M, no matter my program… My program’s Elon in North Carolina, and that is my college. My job is to steward this program and oversee this program and proceed to develop this program to verify to a championship degree every day.”
Texas is paying Texas A&M a $2.7 million buyout as a part of the rent, which Schlossnagle characterised as “a particular buyout particularly for the College of Texas, due to my relationship with Chris.” Schlossnagle’s buyout was $1.35 million for some other job exterior of the state.
Now that he is signed up to try this in Austin as a substitute of Faculty Station, he poured gasoline on a rivalry that does not want any further gas, significantly with Texas becoming a member of the SEC on July 1 and reuniting as convention rivals with the Aggies.
“[The rivalry is] already superior,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “The midweek video games we bought to play this yr? Superior. The regional? Phenomenal. I can not even think about what a three-game SEC sequence might be like.”
AUSTIN, Texas — Jim Schlossnagle was launched as Texas’ baseball coach Wednesday, at some point after he surprised Texas A&M by leaving for the Aggies’ rivals as they returned from the Males’s Faculty World Sequence in Omaha.
The swift decision marked the top of a mad scramble. It started when Schlossnagle was defiant in his postgame information convention Monday evening after a 6-5 loss in Sport 3 of the championship sequence when requested about any curiosity within the Texas job. Information had simply damaged that the Longhorns had parted methods with coach David Pierce.
“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,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That is unfair to speak about one thing like that. … I gave up an enormous a part of my life to come back take this job, and I’ve poured each ounce of my soul on this job. And I’ve given this job each single ounce I might probably give it. So write that.”
The alternate was replayed extensively Tuesday after Schlossnagle traded his maroon for burnt orange. On Wednesday, Schlossnagle mentioned he needed to apologize to the reporter, Richard Zane of TexAgs.com.
“He requested a query that was an apparent query,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I want I might have answered that higher. However within the second, all half-hour after the final pitch, all I might take into consideration was our gamers. And I actually wasn’t within the temper to speak about myself for the long run.”
Schlossnagle was launched by Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, Schlossnagle’s previous boss at TCU. Schlossnagle credited their relationship as the largest differentiator within the Aggies’ and Longhorns’ jobs.
He thanked “my man CDC” in his feedback, referred to as Del Conte and himself “lifelong pals,” and mentioned he regretted that issues went down so shortly after a season through which he led the Aggies to a No. 1 rating, a 53-15 file (tied for the second-most wins in program historical past) and the varsity’s first championship sequence look. Coaches have not often made the leap from one aspect of the rivalry to the opposite, and on this event the departure was significantly galling to the Aggies given the timing.
“I wish to thank Texas A&M,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “This wasn’t clearly a transfer from one college to a different college. It is a nice rivalry. And I could not be extra grateful and humbled by the assist that I bought there, that we bought there from some superior gamers, employees, and administration. … On some palms, this was an easy determination due to my relationship with Chris and my previous historical past and my perception in him and his spouse, Robin [Ward]. Nevertheless it was clearly very arduous. There’s lots of selections in life that you aren’t getting to decide on the timing. You aren’t getting to satisfy along with your group, as you want to. And for that I’m sorry.”
Each Schlossnagle and Del Conte mentioned their long-discussed friendship was at bay whereas Schlossnagle tried to win his first nationwide title in 9 journeys to the MCWS (one as an assistant, eight as a head coach). He mentioned he and Del Conte “speak on a regular basis, however Texas had a baseball coach.”
Schlossnagle mentioned that after he returned residence from Omaha, Del Conte came over him and he made the choice to go.
“I dove in with each single ounce of me to assist A&M have the easiest baseball program we might probably have, and that funding lasted via the final pitch of the nationwide championship sport,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “It by no means wavered, not one second. I do not care what anyone says.”
Del Conte, in the meantime, mentioned he headed straight to Faculty Station to satisfy Schlossnagle on Tuesday, hoping to achieve him and “take the air out of the room” in a face-to-face assembly to influence him to make the leap. Del Conte mentioned he hid out in a cemetery in Snook, Texas, about 20 minutes exterior of Faculty Station, for about 4 or 5 hours to keep away from being noticed.
“With Jim, our eggs had been in a single basket,” Del Conte mentioned. “I used to be banking on my relationship with him that we might come to a deal. I used to be actually nervous, to inform you the reality. … Once I was within the cemetery, [then on the way] to their home, it is simply loopy because it sounds. I performed each situation in my thoughts.
“I drove to his home, had an extended, lengthy dialogue, put him within the automotive, and we drove off,” Del Conte mentioned, including that they got here straight to Austin and accomplished a contract Tuesday evening about 7:45.
Schlossnagle referred to as the expertise “depressing,” saying he understood the eagerness of the identical followers he courted whereas he was at Texas A&M.
“We’ve jobs and attempt to run a enterprise on different individuals’s ardour,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “If I left Texas A&M for another college in a unique a part of the nation, the attention-grabbing textual content messages and messages that I bought yesterday in all probability would not have occurred. However I get it. You possibly can’t ask in your fan base to assist you and be passionate just like the twelfth Man all the time has been. This yr, our crowds had been superior — superior — each, each single sport. So you may’t ask for that like I did and our employees did after which count on everyone to be OK with a coach leaving for its rival college. I get it.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession file, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 file in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the 12 months in 2016. He is taking up the winningest program in school baseball historical past, with three coaches who’ve gained two nationwide championships every in Bibb Falk, Cliff Gustafson and Augie Garrido, and 6 extra runner-up finishes on the MCWS, together with 80 convention championships and 16 convention event championships.
Schlossnagle spoke of his admiration for Gustafson, whom he by no means bought to satisfy, and Pierce, whom he considers a buddy. However he was most moved by Garrido, who he mentioned gave him recommendation on teaching at Texas.
“One factor he mentioned to me at some point is that this: ‘Should you determine to ever come to Texas, it will by no means be your program,'” Schlossnagle mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt that — TCU, UNLV, Texas A&M, no matter my program… My program’s Elon in North Carolina, and that is my college. My job is to steward this program and oversee this program and proceed to develop this program to verify to a championship degree every day.”
Texas is paying Texas A&M a $2.7 million buyout as a part of the rent, which Schlossnagle characterised as “a particular buyout particularly for the College of Texas, due to my relationship with Chris.” Schlossnagle’s buyout was $1.35 million for some other job exterior of the state.
Now that he is signed up to try this in Austin as a substitute of Faculty Station, he poured gasoline on a rivalry that does not want any further gas, significantly with Texas becoming a member of the SEC on July 1 and reuniting as convention rivals with the Aggies.
“[The rivalry is] already superior,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “The midweek video games we bought to play this yr? Superior. The regional? Phenomenal. I can not even think about what a three-game SEC sequence might be like.”