Jim Schlossnagle accepts head baseball coaching role at Texas

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – The day after Texas A&M completed runner up on the Faculty World Sequence, head coach Jim Schlossnagle is leaving to turn into Texas’ subsequent head baseball coach.

Texas A&M posted these statements on X (previously Twitter) Tuesday night time.

“After our baseball workforce arrived again in Faculty Station earlier right now, Jim knowledgeable me of his want to depart Texas A&M,” Texas A&M Athletic Director Trev Alberts mentioned. “Whereas we’re actually disenchanted, we’re grateful for his contributions in serving to our baseball program attain unprecedented heights. Baseball success is essential to everybody related to Texas A&M, we won’t cease in our pursuit of excellence and our dedication to baseball won’t waiver. On behalf of Texas A&M Athletics, we want Jim and his household nicely as they transfer on to a different problem. We are going to discover a terrific chief and glorious coach to go up this proud Aggie baseball program.”

Assertion from Jim Schlossnagle: “I wish to thank Basic Welsh, Trev Alberts and the twelfth Man for an unimaginable expertise throughout my time at Texas A&M. Though I do know many can be upset with my choice, I selected to make a change to hitch a longtime pal to proceed my profession as a university baseball coach. The run to the Nationwide Championship recreation was actually a outstanding one this yr, and I’ll savor the reminiscences and true friendships I’ve made there for a lifetime.”

Schlossnagle labored with now Texas Athletic Director Chris Del Conte after they have been each at TCU.

The Longhorns introduced their firing of head baseball coach David Pierce Monday morning, simply hours earlier than Texas A&M and Tennessee squared off in a winner-take-all matchup for the Faculty World Sequence title.

Hypothesis then emerged relating to each Jim Schlossnagle and the Volunteers’ head coach Tony Vitello.

Moments after his workforce misplaced within the Faculty World Sequence championship recreation, Schlossnagle was requested about rumors circulating Texas’ job opening.

TexAgs reporter Richard Zane referenced the “rumor circulating right now a few particular job opening” earlier than asking Schlossnagle about his future in Faculty Station.

“I feel it’s fairly egocentric of you to ask me that query, to be sincere with you. I left my household to be the coach at Texas A&M,” exclaimed Schlossnage. “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. I perceive you bought to ask the query, however I gave up a giant 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 can probably give it so write that.”

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