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Dave Wilson, ESPN Employees Author
Jim Schlossnagle, who simply led Texas A&M to its first Males’s School World Sequence championship collection, is leaving to develop into the subsequent baseball coach at rival Texas, a supply advised ESPN on Tuesday, confirming a number of reviews.
Schlossnagle agreed to a take care of the Longhorns simply sooner or later after a 6-5 loss to Tennessee in Recreation 3 ended the Aggies’ season only one win shy of their first nationwide championship. The loss shall be compounded by Schlossnagle’s defection to the Aggies’ bitter rival as they reunite as convention foes this 12 months within the SEC.
Schlossnagle went 135-62 in his three seasons with Texas A&M, together with two MCWS visits and a 53-15 report this season, which tied for the second-most wins in program historical past.
In Austin, he’ll reunite with Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, who was his boss at TCU when Schlossnagle coached the Horned Frogs from 2004 to 2021.
On Monday, hours earlier than the Aggies and Volunteers threw the primary pitch within the closing MCWS recreation, Texas introduced that Del Conte and David Pierce had made a mutual determination to half methods. Pierce was 297-162 in eight seasons at Texas, together with a 36-24 report this season.
Texas had lengthy been rumored to have curiosity in Schlossnagle on account of his report at TCU and Texas A&M and the connection he had with Del Conte.
Schlossnagle advised ESPN final month that he knew what was coming with the warmth across the rivalry.
“That is like nuclear stuff,” Schlossnagle stated. “However there is not a second in my day the place I take into consideration what Texas is doing. I feel for those who go have a look at normal society as we speak with social media, everyone does the comparability recreation. And A&M and Texas have been doing the comparability recreation for a pair hundred years.”
In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M, Schlossnagle has a 945-451 profession report, with seven appearances within the MCWS. He has a 59-36 report in NCAA event video games and was named Baseball America Nationwide Coach of the Yr in 2016.
On Monday night time, after the loss to Tennessee and with Pierce out of the image, the main focus turned to Schlossnagle in his postgame information convention, and he reacted angrily to being requested about any potential curiosity within the Texas job.
“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 stated. “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.”