College baseball writer Kendall Rogers compliments Jim Schlossnagle on coaching job

Texas A&M Baseball is seeing immediate returns on their coaching change last offseason. After 16 years under Rob Childress, the Aggies moved on following a disappointing 2021 campaign, in which they finished last in their division with a 9-21 SEC record.

A&M went across the state for their new coach, tabbing TCU‘s Jim Schlossnagle as the next head of the program. D1Baseball.com writer Kendall Rogers is impressed with the first year of the Schlossnagle era. He tweeted that it is an “incredible coaching job” for Shlossnagle to earn the no. 5 national seed in the NCAA Tournament in his first season with the Aggies.

They’ll host regional games in College Station, TX this weekend. Their two-seed? TCU, who Schlossnagle coached for 18 years and took to five College World Series, including four straight from 2014-2017. The region is rounded out by Louisiana and Oral Roberts as the three- and four-seeds.

In his first year with A&M, Schlossnagle looks to get back to the College World Series and is in great position to do so. He’ll hope to do what he never could in his trips to Omaha with TCU: win the whole thing.

Texas A&M Goes from Worst to First under Schlossnagle

The Aggies finished 9-21 in SEC play a year ago. Dead last in the West Division. After one season under Jim Schlossnagle, A&M flipped the script, finishing first in the West. They posted a 19-11 conference record — a ten win improvement over Childress’ final year in College Station. Good enough to win their division and finish second overall in the Southeastern Conference, though Tennessee finished six more games ahead of the Aggies at 25-5.

Tennessee and Texas A&M each earned national seeds and will host regionals and super-regionals if they advance that far. Florida and Auburn also represent the SEC as national seeds, giving the conference a nation-leading four teams hosting regional playoffs in the NCAA Tournament this upcoming weekend.

Texas A&M is set to kick off its NCAA Tournament run Friday at 2 p.m. EST against four-seed Oral Roberts. Win or lose, they’ll continue regional play Saturday and potentially through Sunday and Monday.