Jim Schlossnagle, who simply led Texas A&M to its first Males’s Faculty International Form championship sequence, is retirement to grow to be the nearest baseball teacher at rival Texas, a supply informed ESPN on Tuesday, confirming more than one experiences.
Schlossnagle affirmative to a trade in with the Longhorns only one pace upcoming a 6-5 loss to Tennessee in Sport 3 ended the Aggies’ season only one win shy in their first nationwide championship. The loss shall be compounded via Schlossnagle’s defection to the Aggies’ sour rival as they reunite as convention foes this past within the SEC.
Schlossnagle went 135-62 in his 3 seasons with Texas A&M, together with two MCWS visits and a 53-15 file this season, which attach for the second-most wins in program historical past.
In Austin, he’ll reunite with Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, who used to be his boss at TCU when Schlossnagle coached the Horned Frogs from 2004 to 2021.
On Monday, hours ahead of the Aggies and Volunteers threw the primary sound within the ultimate MCWS sport, Texas introduced that Del Conte and David Pierce had made a mutual decision to part ways. Pierce used to be 297-162 in 8 seasons at Texas, together with a 36-24 file this season.
Texas had lengthy been rumored to have passion in Schlossnagle because of his file at TCU and Texas A&M and the connection he had with Del Conte.
Schlossnagle informed ESPN latter time that he knew what used to be coming with the warmth across the contention.
“That’s like nuclear stuff,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “But there isn’t a moment in my day where I think about what Texas is doing. I think if you go look at general society today with social media, everybody does the comparison game. And A&M and Texas have been doing the comparison game for a couple hundred years.”
In 23 seasons as teacher 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 used to be named Baseball The us Nationwide Mentor of the Age in 2016.
On Monday evening, upcoming the loss to Tennessee and with Pierce out of the image, the focal point grew to become to Schlossnagle in his postgame information convention, and he reacted angrily to being requested about any potential passion within the Texas process.
“I took the job at Texas A&M to never take another job again, and that hasn’t changed in my mind,” Schlossnagle mentioned. “That’s unfair to talk about something like that. … I gave up a big part of my life to come take this job, and I’ve poured every ounce of my soul in this job. And I’ve given this job every single ounce I could possibly give it. So write that.”
